Sentences with phrase «unchecked power»

All those who argue that lobbyists are the source of corruption are overlooking the role of government in accruing unchecked powers of favoritism.

On Wednesday Doyle said his organization «supports the principles in the bill,» while reiterating the report's two main themes: proxy advisors have emerged as quasi-regulators with unchecked powers, and these firms are not neutral arbiters of good governance but rather «very much for - profit enterprises.»

«In «Detroit,» as guests are bloodied in a hotel hallway lineup, there's no such counterbalance, creating a prolonged exercise in unchecked power.

The company was responding to controversy over a new policy change, which critics had interpreted as giving Facebook unchecked power over user data.

The measure, which calls for the mayor to appoint a new school board, contains provisions designed to allay fears that the voices of parents might be lost or that the mayor would exercise unchecked power.

[Tweet «Initiative 42 gives one judge in Jackson essentially unchecked power on all education decisions.»]

This one judge in Jackson will have essentially unchecked power on all education related decisions affecting the state, and you, the voter, will be disenfranchised from the education making process.

As Schmitz becomes more involved in their lives, he makes surprising discoveries which untangle the complexities of modern China: A mysterious box of letters that serve as a portal to a family's — and country's — dark past, and an abandoned neighborhood where fates have been violently altered by unchecked power and greed.

In the beginning of the film, superheroes are forced to retire by the government when public outrage over the heroes» unchecked power reaches new heights.

It is most likely that sucg groups form naturally as a result to what they perceive as unchecked power that leads to widespread destruction.

Blake's vision of omnipotence turned evil was strongly highlighted by another scholar to be encountered shortly in this chapter, Thomas Altizer.19 But first, the wish was strong to rid humankind of a deity whose unchecked power wreaked havoc on the lives of the innocent, and this option was seized exuberantly by our next challenger.

Astorino asked the question to the reader: «Do you think it is a good idea to give the Department of Housing and Urban Development unchecked power to put an apartment building in your neighbourhood?»

The other movies in Marvel's third phase have all engaged with the idea of how disquieting unchecked power can be (some more than others), and consequently, the villains have also gotten far better, because you can increasingly see their points.

A U.S. senator (Holly Hunter) thinks he has too much unchecked power.

Living off the grid for 10 years, former CIA operative Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) finds himself back in action battling a sinister network that utilizes terror and technology to maintain unchecked power.

We have built in a series of carefully designed controls so no individual participant can wield unchecked power over another.

It is worse than business - as - usual: It explicitly authorizes warrantless searches of law - abiding Americans, us, and allows for the collection of communications entirely among innocent Americans who reference the wrong foreigner, and gives the attorney general unchecked power to decide when the government can use what it finds against us, to pick just three of its many troubling provisions.

Step by step, the Bush administration is marching this nation toward an imperial presidency — a presidency with unchecked power.

What is essential is that authority is distributed, whether by formal rules or by convention, in a manner that ensures that no single organ of government has the practical ability to exercise unchecked power.

The new category of crime vaguely defined (and whimsically prosecuted) as the violation of civil rights removed the bar against double jeopardy; and the unchecked power of administrative commissions and civil suits reversed the presumption of innocence.

Bishop McTyeire was himself both an intellectual and a bishop, and in his unique position as both president of the Board of Trust and chief executive officer he disposed of unchecked power.

Lobbies wax and wane in proportion to the unchecked powers the government — particularly through the staff - level writers and enforcers of rules — claims for itself.

Though he's not overly concerned about a Matrix - style computer takeover, he does think there is a real danger in the unchecked power of computers that can think for themselves.

One imagines Lincoln in the classroom reminding the youngsters that the unchecked power to do good is unavoidably also the unchecked power to do evil.

Underneath everything sprung an innocent primal urge to conquer reality, an unchecked power to never grow up.

GOFuckYourself GOProud: Today, the Supreme Court has ignored the Constitution and given the federal government unfettered and unchecked power.

It is important to remember that power, like all human emotions, is neurochemically mediated and that unchecked power can create irrational, addicted and destructive impulses.

Since power activates our neuronal reward systems in the brain and, as such, is addictive, people in positions of unchecked power are likely to lack the self - awareness required to act with restraint or to seek a consensual form of decision making.

Power, especially absolute and unchecked power, is intoxicating.

Yet, in cases where leaders possess absolute and unchecked power, changes in leadership and transitions to more consensus - based rule are unlikely to be smooth.

Why wouldn't Astorino think that ICE is having unchecked power with Trumps Immigration policy now?

«It's about an arrogance of power where they have unchecked power in the State of Connecticut, where Democrats control every facet of our government.

Snowden the man, and Snowden the movie, wanted to shake up an ignorant and apathetic American public about the dangers of unchecked power in a surveillance state, but was the mission a qualified success?

While there is a viable narrative here about superheroes unlimited and unchecked power and the mounting civilian casualties.

What dangers are associated with unchecked power?

Drone strikes and seemingly unlimited access to anywhere in the world (along with many, many other depressing revelations) show a level of unchecked power that would give anyone pause.

He proceeds to chew them out for behaving like vigilantes with unchecked power, before suggesting they agree to be supervised in the future by a United Nations panel.

While there is some justification for this perception — after all, teachers» unions, like trade unions, were created originally as adversaries whose sole purpose was to balance management's unchecked power — Mr. Dole's comments were mean - spirited.

They are also both victims of the same misogynistic bully and she knows what it is like to be helpless in the face of his unchecked power.

A biting satire of a particular despot and a deeply humane allegory of the fragility of goodness and the contagion of unchecked power.

If you're seriously concerned about online user privacy and the unchecked power of tech companies, you need to make your voice heard at the level of policymakers, rather than preaching on social media or staging a boycott.

The smartphone revolution was about putting a powerful computer and an internet connection in everyone's pocket; it was not about creating a new class of economic gatekeepers with the unchecked power to control and destroy markets with zero oversight and little true competition.

If we push away or abandon our sense of connection with others — our acknowledgement, our sensitivity, and our love; there is no limit to the sadness, terror and pain that our unchecked power can produce.