Sentences with phrase «use power against»

In order to willingly concede defeat, presidential candidates need to trust that their opponents will not use power against them.

8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your women and children, and make them slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»

Handily, as is customary for the series you can recruit demons and use their powers against their chums.

Upon swallowing certain enemies, he would copy their power and be able to use those powers against various enemies.

The video shows all the characters that will come with this FREE DLC and the various animations and special powers that they'll have, exhibiting gameplay footage of some of them using their powers against some enemies.

Kirby can't jump on his adversaries; instead, he sucks them up and uses their powers against them.

He and his politicized agencies (IRS, CIA,...) are already using their power against conservatives.

Not exact matches

During the campaign, Trump railed against President Barack Obama's use of the power, which has the benefit of not needing congressional approval.

But keep practicing these steps and you'll start to harness the power of emotions — and use them to work for you, instead of against you.

Many of these technologies are used to power Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant housed within the Echo smart speaker, which was unveiled in 2014 to compete against Apple's Siri.

Then, the powers - that - be can weigh the cost of changing to a more efficient, yet still practical process - one that more effectively uses the aisle - against the benefit of recovering only a portion of that potential savings.

LONDON — The United States and Britain on Monday issued a first - of - its - kind joint warning about Russian cyberattacks against government and private organizations as well as individual homes and offices in both countries, a milestone in the escalating use of cyberweaponry between major powers.

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When inflation rears its ugly head, acting as a stealth tax by draining your purchasing power over time, there are some asset allocation portfolio models you can use to guard against its wealth destruction.

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

But now we're up against something completely different: a government that isn't just hard - nosed during collective bargaining — we're used to that — but one that actually wants to destroy unions, using brute legislative power.

Word of the announcement came as the Trump administration on Wednesday warned that it would vigorously defend U.S. national interests against «hostile» powers such as China and Russia, vowing to use «all available tools» to combat unfair practices - a sign that the president may be preparing to erect new trade barriers.

On his decision to use executive power to ban bump stocks without Congress's approval: «I would recommend him against that,» Rep. Joe Barton (R - TX) said.

For centuries, he argues, courts in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third - party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked — and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.

This reaction isn't just sexist — it's also dangerous, because it has led many in the country to ignore a very serious allegation against the president: that he has used his money and power to shut up women who might embarrass him.

Ain't I right that it would better to use your intellectual power for Him instead against Him?

When men, who have agency and voice, are silent against the sexual predation of women, they not only contribute to the shame that victims feel, they empower the predators who use wealth and power to continue their assault on our sisters created in the image of God.

No, Clara, Rule # 1 is not «use your enemy's power against them.»

In contrast Jesus took away the power and riches motivation as he spoke against hierarchical leadership withing the community he is building, against giving titles to anyone, and against using the place were people gather together for monetary gain.

Councillors in the city agreed on Wednesday to «take all necessary actions within its powers» to stop what it said was the harassment by protesters against women using the clinics.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

On the one hand, there is a strong resistance to the use of military power, rising in some Roman Catholic documents and papal statements to a «presumption against war» and the suggestion that recourse to military power is always bad.

A further feature of empirical contemporary warfare is that it involves face - to - face uses of military power by the participants against one another, not the remote destruction of distant, unseen, and often abstract targets.

People such as Hitler used that claim to come to power and justify building his military, claiming it a defense against the «decadent West» (which turned out to be much stronger than him).

The exact same tactics and language is often used today by those in power against the people who want to follow Jesus differently.

Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and value - conflicts in which that faith is used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.

Just as there are possible justifications for inequality (and for the use of violence in its defense), so there are also possible justifications for resort to violence against existing structures of power» (PPT 27f.)

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

If Christian leaders are using their power and influence to control and threaten others, and doing this in the name of Jesus, then it is not a sin against the Holy Spirit to call them out on this!

The test is whether that power is used in responsible service to the God who is moving against the injustices in the present structures of power.

But even valuable self - powering and self - responsibility techniques can be used against women to excuse our male - dominated social systems.

Black theology can not accept a view of God which does not represent him as being for blacks and thus against whites... black [204] people have no time for a neutral God... There is no use for a God who loves whites the same as blacks... What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their dispPower which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disppower of black people to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal.

Also, God's use of power and wrath being employed against the wicked is a great comfort, and even can be a source of joy, to those people who are being dominated by evil authorities, which perhaps is not as evident in the USA today but think of the joy for the people when an evil dictatorship is squashed.

To highlight this usage is not deny some of uses of power are oppressive, but rather to suggest that exercise of power, especially state power, needs to be evaluated by some criterion other than whether the person who is on the receiving end of a powerful action has less power than the persons acting against them.

Further disagreements arise over whether the Bush administration has sufficiently justified a war against Iraq, and over the uses and limits of militant rhetoric and military power in dealing with North Korea.

The growth of modern scientific civilization has brought both opportunities and perils for democracy: opportunities in the vast new resources made available to mankind, and perils in the increased power men can use against and over one another.

For example, it is well known that nuclear radiations are dangerous in large doses and this was used as an argument against nuclear power.

Too often, in order to fight against the power - hungry and destructive spirit of oppression that governs many nations and corporations, the church has adopted the very same ideologies and methods that are used by the organization we fight against.

War and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilians.

Too often, self - righteous religious leaders use their power to promote actions that go against the core values of their religion and religious texts.

Which when it comes to his ecclesia Jesus clearly taught against hierarchy, position titles, and using spiritual gifts to make money his teaching on those topics was the antithesis of power and commercialization of relationship with God.

What you can not do is use political power and official govt position to bully and discriminate against those whose views do not agree with yours.

Having the greater guilt by far, Christians have surely the greater need for reconciliation, but when the Jewish authorities had political power they understandably used it in their own interest, including against the nascent Christians.

All the power that modern man has gained can manifest itself in the long run only in the fact that God will use this very power against the man who hopes to dethrone God.

To do this they must discover how to use power with and for (the other and themselves) rather than over or against.