In movements for liberation from oppression, the question has been always raised not only in terms of use or misuse, but also in terms of
the very nature of power.
In the liberation movements from oppressive powers the question of power has been always raised not only in terms of use or misuse of the power, but also in terms of
the very nature of the power.
Guided by relevant themes and trends that are shaking the art world in the given year, it also provides an insight into
the very nature of power and what it could and should be.
Not exact matches
Truth has its own
power and influence, and will prevail because
of its
very nature.
The easiest access point for most is to say that because God IS love, then God's
very nature is loving, and so God's use
of power is not coercive - it is persuasive (almost seductive).
Jesus is the imago Dei uncorrupted, so that John's Gospel can insist that, for Jesus, «Whoever has seen me has seen the Father» (14:9).4 In light
of this realization, three provocatively new foci will occupy our immediate attention: the proclamation
of the impending arrival
of the basileia tou theou; the significance
of the crucifixion (and resurrection)
of Jesus for understanding the
nature of divine
power; and the Johannine conviction that love characterizes the
very essence
of God.
However cold or weak we may feel, belief and trust knows that the new heart is in us, that the love
of YAHWEH»S Law is our
very nature, that the teaching and
power of the Spirit are within us.
Is it not the case that nations are in their
very nature fated to throw themselves at one another in a grim game
of power to which the principles
of ethics are no more relevant than to the death battle
of prehistoric mastodons?
Power and authority which determine the sphere
of freedom without the free assent
of the individual are indeed dangerous and only too often become depraved by the guilty selfishness
of those in command, but they are not by their
very nature immoral opponents
of freedom.
He reflects the glory
of God and bears the
very stamp
of his
nature, upholding the universe by his word
of power.
She is convinced in all her childish naïveté and innocence, this conviction also ennobles her
nature and imparts to her a preternatural greatness, so that like a thaumaturge she is able to conjure the finite
powers of existence and make the
very stones weep, while on the other hand in her flurry she may just as well run to Herod as to Pilate and move the whole world by her tears.
When each individual woman must refight the same battle — that she is always the exception — males can utilize as a powerful tool in their retention
of power the language's insistence that she is by her
very nature an exception.
If love is the principle and
power of becoming, the
very nature of love is to share His being.
For all its
power, however, Voltaire's poem is a
very feeble thing compared to the case for «rebellion» against «the will
of God» in human suffering placed in the mouth
of Ivan Karamazov by that fervently Christian novelist Dostoevsky; for, while the evils Ivan recounts to his brother Alexey are acts not
of impersonal
nature but
of men, Dostoevsky's treatment
of innocent suffering possesses a profundity
of which Voltaire was never even remotely capable.
Science has revealed God's plan
of control and direction in the
very fact
of the laws
of nature; in the unity
of these laws which thus point to the oneness
of God; in the developmental
power of the laws which bring about all the rich diversity
of the universe from stars and galaxies to complex life; and in the openness
of these laws to higher synthesis and higher development within the spiritual order.
He reflects the glory
of God and bears the
very stamp
of His
nature, upholding the universe by His
power.»
Perhaps Elijah and his narrator would not have put it as the Second Isaiah did about three centuries later, but his words express what was essentially their own understanding
of the Word - with -
power: the entity not merely verbal and descriptive but also instrumental, by its
very nature containing the resources for its own accomplishment and fulfillment:
IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition
of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical
of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words
of St. Gregory the Great are
very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author
of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the
power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state
of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession
of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom
nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke
of slavery by the law
of nations.»
The
power of digestion in infants is
very weak, and the child diet designed by the
nature to be taken
very slowly into the stomach.
And although his theories were not yet mature, he was completely aware
of their explosive
nature: By dissociating intellect and morality from god's
power of creation, and attributing them instead to self - evolving forces, Darwin undermined the
very foundations
of a society shaped by the Anglican Church, with its hopes
of eternal life and the omnipresent threat
of punishment.
«This is one
of the
very first studies
of human iPSC models for type 2 diabetes, and it points out the
power of this technology to look at the
nature of diabetes, which is complex and may be different in different individuals,» says C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Joslin's Chief Academic Officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor
of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Because in the words
of Rachel Carson, «If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the
very marrow
of our bones — we had better know something about their
nature and their
power» (preach, girl!).
The dysfunctional
nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside
of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their
power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know
very well that it is beyond the
power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect
of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind
of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out
of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»
And by its
very nature, doesn't an EV merit a fancy instrument display with animated graphics presenting information about
power draw, state
of charge, and regeneration?
The frugal
nature of the plug - in powertrain means that a Volvo V90 can cost
very little to run - compared to any conventionally
powered car, not just its rivals.
As further proof
of the Maxima's sporty
nature, Nissan fitted the new car with a similar steering mechanism to that used in the 370Z, a speed - sensitive
power - steering unit that does an excellent job
of delivering road feel at higher speeds, while still being
very responsive.
We'd also like to stress that the six - cylinder engine in the Nissan Murano is a
very smooth and refined engine, with a
very linear delivery
of power and torque and a hushed
nature at cruising speeds.
The recent advent
of lightweight portable
power and waterproof / shock - resistant cases (both discussed later) now makes this bug out survival resource
very durable and practical, no matter what Mother
Nature throws your way.
They're
very shonen in
nature but more character - oriented with really nice artwork, less focus on stuff like fighting and «The
power of friendship!».
(It's worth noting that the offline hacks do not appear to include regional trade, but the simplicity and highly abstracted and asynchronous
nature of those relationships makes me
very skeptical that EA's servers are supplying computational
power of any meaningful benefit.)
Project Scorpio is being heralded as
very PC like in
nature in terms
of power.
If art uses reality avoidance to tell us something about the
very nature of reality, Katrina del Mar, in Feral Women / Filmed Portraits, her solo show at Leslie Lohman Museum's Prince Street Project Space, reveals ideas
of power and beauty along with the rainbow
of the real and theater.
Videograms
of a Revolution, marks a turn in the
very nature of documentary film making, whilst reflecting upon the role
of media and
power in our times.
The choice
of works is
very deliberate with the exhibition broken down into seven themes: Beauty,
Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme central to English Romantic art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a key feature of Twombly's paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists paint land and sea through a filter of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, where the theme of loss and memorialisation are central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the power of the elements; The Vital Force which brings together works of a sensual or erotic nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their l
Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme central to English Romantic art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a key feature
of Twombly's paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists paint land and sea through a filter
of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy
of Melancholy, where the theme
of loss and memorialisation are central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage
of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the
power of the elements; The Vital Force which brings together works of a sensual or erotic nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their l
power of the elements; The Vital Force which brings together works
of a sensual or erotic
nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their lives.
I also imgaine that these right wingers (neo cons I believe they are known as) are also
very religious in
nature (or appear to be) and they carry a lot
of power in the USA and hence considering the evolution vs creationism debate that is raging over there at the moment getting action on climate change seems to be almost impossible in the current or by a future republican administration.
I have also come to understand, over the course
of researching this book, that the shift will require rethinking the
very nature of humanity's
power — our right to extract ever more without facing consequences, our capacity to bend complex natural systems to our will.
Wind
power is not
very popular in Florida because
of the unreability and eratic
nature of wind, will these turbines hold up to hurricane force winds?
Often quoted as the iPhone's Achille's heel, battery life on the iPhone 6 Plus is boosted by the
very nature of its size, although, in turn, that's a hell
of a screen for it to
power.
Due to the
very nature of the blockchain, anybody wanting to tamper with it would have to make changes to records which are stored on multiple computers, or use a lot
of computing
power to mine a new branch
of the blockchain.