Sentences with phrase «unaccountable power of»

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«Incalculable and unaccountable», I say, for the narratives constantly betray a baffled wonderment; but not magical or irrational, because they are congruous with the account which Jesus gave of the character of God: the «Father in heaven», who is «good» with a goodness beyond justice, (Mark 10:18; Matthew 5: 45; Luke 6: 35; Matthew 20: 1 - 15) supported by sufficient power; (Mark 10: 27, 14:36) and who persistently takes the initiative in giving good gifts to His creatures.

How else explain the drive to take decision making power on some of the most important issues of our day and turn it over to unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic boards of «experts?»

The Democratic nominee has pursued unaccountable power through secrecy — most evidently in the form of an email server designed to shield her communications while in public service, but also in lavishly compensated speeches, whose transcripts she refuses to release, to some of the most powerful representatives of the world system.

The abuse of power by unaccountable big business, reckless and corrupt practice and a Parliament that for too long was enthralled by its allure rings as true for News International as it did for the banking crisis.

Proposed reforms would have restored the Comptroller's independent oversight powers to review contracts before they are finalized, corralled unaccountable, state controlled not - for - profits, and created a «Database of Deals» for billions in state subsidies to businesses.

He outlined why he thinks voters worried about excessive powers will continue to turn their backs on the «unaccountable bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels».

Even though we are outside the euro we are still subject to an unelected EU commission which is generating new laws every day and an unaccountable European Court in Luxembourg which is extending its reach every week, increasingly using the Charter of Fundamental Rights which in many ways gives the EU more power and reach than ever before.

«The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

I particularly enjoyed Jowell's comment that «Labour has cited Aneurin Bevan's injunction that «the purpose of getting power is to give it away» rather more frequently than we have practiced it,» as though New Labour had not after all been in many respects (devolution excepted) about the redistribution of power to unaccountable bodies and about the substitution of real individual power within the grasp of the citizen by its tawdry imitation.

In other words, free education isn't just a policy, it's a whole new philosophy of how Labour should behave towards vested interests, private companies and unaccountable power when it is government.

Its better because it doesn't transfer the power that it does to the second preferences of smaller party voters (a numerically small group) in an democratically unaccountable way.

They should publicly concede that the feds played a significant facilitative role, that the Common Core exercise has been inevitably imperfect, that reasonable people may be nervous about the power seemingly being wielded by unaccountable associations, and that advocates facing a window of opportunity may have focused too much on the ambition of the project and not enough on allaying practical concerns.

Education is too important for power to be concentrated in the hands of unaccountable super managers.

«And the causes of the frustrations are often the same in the private and public sector: unaccountable power with the individual feeling left powerless to act.»

«To take away decision - making powers from elected ministers and put them, without debate, into the hands of unaccountable and opaque regional schools commissioners would be totally unacceptable.

Quality of financial position plus quantity of resources, incidentally, translates into long - term earning power, whether that earning power evidences itself as unrealized and, therefore, unaccountable for appreciation of undeveloped land (St. Joe Paper); growing cash flows (Forest City Enterprises); enhanced attractiveness as a takeover candidate (Constellation Bancorp or DCA); or rapid increases over long periods in earnings per share as reported for GAAP purposes (SunAmerica).

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs

And, rather than magic windows into our future, the only use for academia's mathematical global warming models are their utility in helping to give power to the most unaccountable, unworldly and fundamentally dishonest sector of Western society.

When it happens it will be a rebellion against unaccountable and concentrated power, money, and manipulation in all of its various forms.