Sentences with phrase «usurp authority»

Wrath of The Demon 1991 The mighty wizard Anthrax, in an attempt to usurp authority over the kingdom, has summoned a horrifying Demon.

By the same token, recognizing that an epiphany may usurp authority from a larger work allows you to control that potential.

The recommendations assert that this compact should not make decisions about openings and closings or «usurp the authority» of district and charter school leaders.

The decision also rejected an attempt by the lower court judge to usurp the authority of the governor, legislature, and state department of education in setting educational policy and mandates on a variety issues.

In its 5 - to - 4 decision, the court ruled that the state legislature did not usurp the authority of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (bese) when it required that all schools present a «balanced treatment» of creationism and evolution.

Gov. George Deukmejian of California has vetoed a proposed measure linking driver's licenses to school attendance, contending that it would usurp the authority of parents.

Well, I've long felt that as someone who is intimately familiar with the culture and climate of Christian parenting, Gary Ezzo exploits the fears of many Christian parents by portraying families who don't follow Babywise as families where the children usurp the authority of the parents and bring shame on them with their selfish, demanding behaviors.

It plainly says a woman is not to teach or usurp authority over the man.

The command that women are not to teach or usurp authority over the man was given by God to the Apostle Paul for the church during the church age so I don't understand your reference to the 10 commandments and the dispensation of the Law.

God has spoken on this subject and His word instructs that the woman is not to teach nor usurp authority over the man.

For the classic faiths, however, history dare not usurp the authority of God's given word.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

He is trying to usurp the authority of God.

Priscilla instructed a gifted leader in the very city — Ephesus — where Paul asks women not to usurp authority over men.

The universal principle of 1 Timothy 2:11 - 15 is not to excludewomen (like Priscilla) from teaching accurately, but to exclude false teachers who usurp authority.

In doing so, she does not usurp authority or teach falsely.

nor to usurp authority over the man...» Here is what the word «usurp» means, from Dictionary.com.

They are trying to usurp authority that only God has.

At a hearing on the injunction in Fort Worth on Aug. 12, lawyers for Texas said the guidelines usurp the authority of school districts nationwide.

In Genesis 3, the woman usurped authority over her husband and took the lead in the Fall, and is now forbidden to do so in the local church by teaching Scriptures to men.

Written words usurped the authority once reserved for the spoken command.

I certainly don't doubt God has a purpose for your life, but according to scripture it does not involve teaching or usurping authority over men.

In going to Eve instead of Adam the devil usurped the authority that God had installed in the garden in its entirety.

If there was a problem with women usurping authority over men in the church in Ephesus, Paul would have addressed it.

In the Bible, moreover, the Devil always operates on usurped authority.

And from Todd he also cited the Revivalists» disrespect for leaders, both clerical and lay, who were not properly converted, how they regarded such «leaders and rulers of this people as unconverted and opposers of the work of God, and usurping an authority that did not belong to them.

He voted for all the testing that parents and kids hate and voted to impose an outrageous evaluation system on teachers, usurping the authority of locally elected school boards.

[39][40][41] Then - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and others accused Governor Paterson of having overstepped his bounds and usurped the authority of the Legislature.

Abelove's petition questioned the constitutionality of the governor's order, claiming it usurped the authority of elected district attorneys.

The Minister has by this action usurped the authority and functions of the Bank's Board of Directors, which has curiously not been constituted despite several reminders and complains.

His denial comes after accusations from the Minority in Parliament that he [Ken Ofori - Atta] usurped the authority and functions of the Bank and its Board of Directors in approving the facility.

«The minister usurped the authority and functions of the Bank and its Board of Directors, which has curiously not been constituted so we are concerned.

The Democrats are planning to seek a temporary injuction in court to «enjoin the Republicans from illegitimately usurping authority,» according to Shafran.

In her catalog essay, Rosalind E. Krauss describes the Rorschach paintings as an assault on Abstract Expressionism: their anonymity usurps their authority.

The appeal argues Massachusetts regulators exceeded their wholesale rate - setting authority, a violation of the Federal Power Act and the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by usurping the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania held that President Obama's recent Executive Action on Immigration exceeds his executive authority and usurps the authority of Congress.

Not exact matches

The deputy attorney general said Comey was «wrong to usurp the attorney general's authority» by going public with the FBI's recommendation.

In his letter to Congress, Obama said the bill he was scrapping had improperly tried to usurp presidential authority.

British Columbia's demand for oil spill safety enhancements, by contrast, are capable of being designed so as not to usurp the federal government's authority over the approval of interprovincial pipelines.

2) to use without authority or right; employ wrongfully: The magazine usurped copyrighted material.

Man rises in the pulpit and place the focus on what they say or what they do, usurping the power, grace, authority, and majesty of God.

A Christian taking vengeance into his or her own hands shows distrust of God and usurps God's authority.

In doing so we learn that 1st century writers nearly always used authentein for «authority» that was domineering, misappropriated or usurped.

He is usurping to himself authority to speak and interpret the Word of God without the Spirit of God.

This affirmation of God's sovereignty and the principle of salvation by grace led to a series of criticisms against all worldly authorities that claimed to usurp the power of God, be it an authoritarian church, an infallible Bible or a mechanical sacrament that offered salvation in a simplistic way.

«23 Indeed many landlords felt that the missionaries had usurped the landlord's position of authority over the Pulayas.

I think that is a total misunderstanding, and a usurping of Jesus» authority.

Feeling its own authority usurped, the Pastor - Parish Relations Committee objected to the meeting called by the administrative board chairman to discuss complaints against Sid.

Did the Justices not read into the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment a «right to freedom of contract» in whose name they frustrated the legislative will and usurped the constitutional authority of the elected representatives of the people?

That does not give the government (as represented by this one judge) the legal authority to usurp naming rights of a child from the child's parent / legal guardian.