Sentences with phrase «usurped in»

Alas, their title was usurped in less than two years» time by a challenger from another firm.

Inconvenient: California Governor Jerry Brown has been usurped in the battle of greenhouse gases — by nature

If the big universites are too stiff to adapt, then they will be usurped in importance by some smaller colleges that figure it out the way John A has.

Democratically elected leaders have been usurped in order to satisfy the whims of the Bank according to Perkins.

The series overall has been usurped in my mind by AlphaDream's Mario & Luigi series, which seemed to plateau after reaching its height in Bowser's Inside Story, rather than decline as Paper Mario has.

Their form is a matter of prevailing local technology, and they are being usurped in terms of our cultural predilections.

I'm not sure whether Brooks should take it as a compliment or an insult to have been excluded, but it has to sting a little bit that Hill's downright catatonic bullpen pencil pusher usurped him in what seems clearly this year's biggest coattails nod.

If Labour politics were an American high - school drama, some on the right of the party must have felt as though they were once the jocks and the prom queens, but have been suddenly usurped in the pecking order by the emo kids and goths they used to pity or mock.

I think any and everyone would agree that John Terry is a person with questionable morals but he is still one of the best CBs in the world and looks to be usurped in that regard by Cahill very soon.

Shkodran Mustafi is supposedly talking to Inter Milan about a move this month, with Rob Holding having supposedly usurped him in the pecking order for first - team football.

Gianluigi Donnarumma would be the ideal signing, but he looks likely to complete a switch to Real Madrid, but the idea of signing a top young talent who could challenge Cech for the first - team role before usurping him in the near future would be ideal.

Though we never find out why it's taken so long for Gleeson Mark II to come out of the woodwork, there is much humour to be had as he takes over his sibling's life, usurping him in the boardroom and the bedroom only to realise what a poisoned chalice he's inherited.

Yesterday's update has simply finally put it on par with XBLA but with its back catalogue it certainly has the potential to usurp it in the future.

Not exact matches

Beyoncé has usurped near - total control of her career and image, firing a series of managers (including father Mathew Knowles, ousted in 2011) along the way.

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.

The name still lives on in Walkman MP3 Players and Walkman Phones from Sony Ericsson, but its youth - in - motion branding has been usurped by the more dynamic and aggressive iPod from Apple.

However, those expecting drone deliveries to usurp traditional methods involving cars and postal workers in 2017 will likely have to wait a few years.

In his post on the company blog, on Monday, Musk labeled Eberhard as someone who falsely «plays to a common archetype — that of the noble inventor whose invention is usurped by the rich and powerful businessman.»

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

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Anyone who remembers MySpace, formerly the dominant player in social networking, will know that large networks can be usurped by upstarts with a more compelling value proposition for users.

New York will remain steadfast in pushing back against federal encroachment efforts like the [Office of the Controller of the Currency's] proposal to impose a one - size - fits - all national bank charter that increases risk and seeks to usurp state sovereignty.»

But, with the extremely low fees and instant transfers available regardless of borders, cryptocurrency payments have the potential to usurp any of the existing ways of completing transactions, especially in an online setting.

Legal components usurp the group of belief throughout the Bitcoin blockchain and have interaction in nefarious actions, tax evasion, and terrorist funding, et al..

Criminal elements usurp the community of trust within the Bitcoin blockchain and engage in nefarious activities, tax evasion, and terrorist funding, et al..

This is a great article but sadly these appear to be examples of the powerful incumbents attempting to usurp blockchain so as to keep themselves in the middle (Bank of America's patents — actually, patents are a good use case for blockchain) rather than the powerful incumbent reinventing themselves.

Those who think Congress can easily reclaim war powers that presidents have usurped since then don't see how powerful Polk's method generally proves in a democracy.

So the usurping thing is really a red herring when we speak of having female teachers in our churches.

Confrontation can not and must not usurp the working of the Holy Spirit grounded in justice and love.

When Christians usurped Jesus from the Jews and made him over in the image they imagined for him it was easy to dismiss the truth in favor of the dogma, and therein lies the fundamental flaw in Christianity — Jesus was a devout Jew!

At its period of fullest development the book to some extent usurped the place of the more primitive but generally more accessible methods of production of the past; on the other hand, it was a stand - in for future methods which make it possible for everyone to become a producer.

But what if the story is more interested in the usurping of power, the annihilation of controlling people, and the end of deceit to achieve noble ends?

Infatuated with himself, he usurped the prerogatives of the Apostles by presuming to preach the Gospel in the streets, where he made many disciples, and involving them, both men and women, in a like presumption by sending them out, in turn, to preach.

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.

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

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

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

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

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

Statues, praying to Mary and other «saints», placing the Pope and priests in a position that usurps Jesus, moving the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday (because the pagans already worshiped on Sunday)-- All violations of the ten commandments.

From this God, in the fullness of time, would be born the modern subject who has usurped God's place.

The war in heaven comes to a climax with the pitiable death of God (the original angel to emerge from matter into consciousness) and his usurping regent, Metatron.

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

Or will they seek to do away with the beloved child in order to usurp the favored place in the Parent's affection?

Nor is it that television has replaced religion «s information - giving role, though it is true, as Tawney says, that in the Geneva of Calvin «s day, the pulpit was both lectern and press, while today the church «s monopoly on information has been effectively usurped by the mass media.

they built a jewish country after annihilating some people in their homes, usurping their land with that state of mind, making culprits out of them, didn't they?

Unless alcoholism is kept relentlessly in the foreground, other issues will usurp everybody's attention.»

However, the former conception (uur) is active in its expansionist vein and, t is this conceptual Caste worldview that threatens to usurp the distinctness of the Paraiyar social cultural and religious space

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.

Time and again, even in the highly academic SIL, Pike had to reassert the place of scholarship and its fundamental importance to producing good translations of the Bible when evangelistic activism threatened to usurp scholarly production and academic rigor.