Sentences with phrase «under human power»

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Where the power of those instruments needs to be limited, as it surely sometimes does, it can not be done by pulling the rug out from under individual, human liberties.

Attempting to be perfect is a vain human striving to play God, to bring things under our control, to maintain a vestige of power that we should otherwise surrender.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

This doctrine makes sense for her when we understand the power of sin under which we live as «the power of produced things which dominates humans».32 Such an understanding empowers and directs practice appropriately.

There Statius explains to Dante the generation of the embryo, and how the embryo passes through various stages before it can be considered a rational human: «This active power,» reads Robert M. Durling's translation, «having become a soul like that of a plant, but different in so far as it is still under way, while the other is already in port,»

The Equality Act created a new body: the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, CEHR, which will have the power to take up cases on behalf of those who feel there has been discrimination under the provisions of the Equality Act.

That the Christian idea of God (reputedly drawn after the pattern of the man who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried) has all too often been recast in the shape of human dreams of power and glory is a fact of ecclesiastical history which it would be hypocritical to pretend were otherwise.

The conception of inviolable human dignity, of constitutional limits upon central power, of equality under law, and of the free exchange of goods and services in markets is, again, part of a preliberal legacy.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

Inviolable human dignity, constitutional limits upon central power, and equality under law are part of a preliberal legacy.

For this reason, Paul understands man with all his strengths, weaknesses and temptations: «Human nature, the common nature of the whole race of Adam, spoke in him, acted in him, with an energetical presence, with a sort of bodily fullness, always under the sovereign command of divine grace, but losing none of its real freedom and power because of its subordination.

This is that, under the combined influence of two irresistible forces of planetary dimensions (the geographical curve of the Earth, by which we are physically compressed, and the psychic curve of Thought, which draws us closer together), the power of reflection of the human mass, which means its degree of humanization, far from having come to a stop, is entering a critical period of intensification and renewed growth.

People should realize that this is the Voice of those who have a voice because they have their dollars and they have the power to kill, with a button, the whole human race and under their own roof the power to kill, day by day, with counterinformation their own sickly conscience.23

A common feature of them both is their basic dualism, according to which the present world and its human inhabitants are under the control of demonic, satanic powers, and stand in need of redemption.

Their thinking was largely affected by Jewish apocalyptic conceptions, according to which history had fallen under the dominion of demonic powers; when «the fullness of time» should come, God would engage these powers in battle, would defeat and destroy them and their human agents, and would inaugurate a new and unimaginable order of blessedness, righteousness and peace.

Yet indirectly, the stand they took in placing the authority of God above all human powers was to bring upon them the persecutions under Nero and Domitian, and precipitate the mood of spiritual confidence in defiance of earthly «principalities and powers» that is reflected in the book of Revelation and elsewhere.

Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

The fulfillment of personality is thus a form of communion, whether it be with the God a man worships; or with nature under some aspect; or through intimate communication with ideal things, the inexhaustible quality of beauty or truth that pervades the universe; or with some cause that calls into action all one's powers; or even with things of lesser significance so long as they satisfy the human craving for union.

That, though, would be a jarringly odd sentiment under any conditions; on an imperial scale, political power is almost inevitably corrosive of natural human associations, rational loyalties, or cordial attachments.

Shame implies the peculiarly human concern with self - perfection, guilt the sense of personal responsibility, whereas awe recognizes powers not under human control and beyond human comprehension, before which we feel shamefully small.

They did reject any view that grace is under the control of a human power, even that of the church.

Much of sin gets into the human spirit under the guise of love; but the sin is not always the coercion of the other, it is the perversion of goals, the misuse of power, and the self - justification which grows not from love but from its absence.

It is significant, for example, that John Adams, during his first year as our first vice-president under the new liberal constitutional regime, said, «We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.

Schweitzer's radical demonstration of love in the form of unpretentious human service, under conditions which involve personal renunciation, corresponds directly to St. Francis's rule of love and humility as the authentic foundation of a way of life free from attachments of privilege and power.

The primitive conceptions of clean and unclean lie at the bottom of these rules; there are certain things and certain events in natural human life (like birth and death) which bring man under the influence of mysterious dæmonic forces; there are actions and situations in life which are full of these dangerous powers or are threatened by them.

That is, in the elements from which it was made, illuminated under the open sky, it showed forth the hidden riches of the earth, while through the pious craftsmanship of its makers, it made manifest the highest powers of a human world.

Member states (MS) must ensure that the Commission is not granted the power to undermine a human right international law and thus misinterpret duty / obligation under it.

The plan itemizes the approach towards investing in people, including promoting social inclusion through social investment programmes for the vulnerable and targeted programmes for the North - East and Niger - Delta, job creation and youth empowerment and investments in human capital while outlining the competitiveness imperatives as enhancing infrastructure (power, roads, rail, ports and broadband services, and leveraging public - private partnerships (PPPs)-RRB-, improving the business environment through the initiatives under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and promoting digital - led growth.

Under the new plan, the government will have the power to veto investment decisions made locally on ethical grounds concerning human rights, arms trade, fossil fuels and much else.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

Prof. Dankofa, among other things, in suit KDH / KAD / 236 / 2018 is praying the court to «declare that the action of the respondents (Kaduna State Government and Kaduna Geographic Information Service, KADGIS) in arrogating to themselves the power to punitively sanction the Applicants (Hunkuyi and his Company, Muna Investment Ltd) property, even if the Applicants were purportedly in default of payment of either ground rent or land use charge or for any other reason constitute a gross violation of Applicant Fundamental Human Right guaranteed under section 43 (1) and 46 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and therefore illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.»

Seniors (31 %) are less likely than those under age 30 (60 %) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change.

If humans were to one day live under the yellow haze of the moon's skies, exploring its rolling dunes and ragged peaks or settling by the side of gently stirring hydrocarbon lakes, they would need energy to power their lives.

A different kind of industrial revolution is under way today — one that combines the transformative power of information with our human need to remake pieces of the world to improve our lives.

Namely, to play the part of a hero who represents the zenith of the human potential for strength, agility, endurance, speed and reflexes, Evans managed to brilliantly transform his physique by powering through countless brutal gym sessions under the guidance of his trainer Simon Waterson.

Even though he's the only hero with actual powers there's just enough of the real man under the surface to keep him human.

It's been a few years since the last sighting of any humans when, one day, a small search party of men — and one woman (Keri Russell, fine but under - written)-- led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke, very good), wanders into the woods, looking for a hydro - electric dam to restore power to the nearby city.

At this moment, though he is a god with incredible powers and more than a thousand years under his belt, Thor's reaction was very human.

A distinction has to be made between national identity building legitimate under international human rights law and a propagandistic ideology formation serving limited interests of people in power.

This session, all senators are under extreme pressure by special interests that stand to gain money, power, school rankings, human cogs in the corporate machine, and private student data by keeping both Common Core and standardized testing in place.

It's simply human nature that sometimes makes us do what we normally would never do, so we should remain calm and not come under the influence of the instincts and desires to manifest our power.

With the world powers and most of the planet's meta - human heroes and villains consolidated under his rule, Superman becomes Earth's dictator, his only opposition in the form of Batman and his Insurgency.

«It gets under my skin, the way humans assert power and control over others,» says Paine, who left home at age 15 and later cofounded the artist collective Brand Name Damages in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Race is something that bonds but also has the power to shatter — there is only one race that unites us all and that is under the title Human.

However, once the Lunar Power System is much under way, we will also be able to start moving energy - using activities such as mining and heavy manufacturing to Space, further helping solve the overall «humans on Earth» problem, not merely the energy - climate part of it.

It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power — specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

Despite concluding in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, a finding that triggered their regulation under the 1970 Clean Air Act, it has taken years for the administration to take on the nation's fleet of power plants.

Subtitle C: Consumer Assistance -(Sec. 431) Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to formulate and administer the Energy Refund Program, under which eligible low - income households are provided cash payments to reimburse the households for the estimated loss in their purchasing power resulting from this Act.

BBC's «Horizon: Science Under Attack» could be viewed as a natural history programme in which clever humans are closely observed wilfully undermining their own intellects in the pursuit of greed (in this instance, the greed for power).

«While the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) state they have powers to fine under the existing legislation, it is questionable whether the current regime actually extends this far.