Sentences with phrase «wealth and power»

The prophets picked up on this ideal, protesting the concentration of wealth and power in a few hands.

All told, it may be the greatest concentration of American wealth and power in one investment fund.

The ruling was a step backward, one more reason to be cynical about a system that always seems to find a loophole for insiders with wealth and power.

He is a bad man who has sold his soul for wealth and power.

Those with great wealth and power keep the cards stacked in their favor.

Since the economic system also concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and excludes the majority from participation even in its material benefits, it generates enormous suffering.

There is an incredible consolidation of wealth and power by the rich.

It is just one type of free economy and it does lend itself to the concentration of wealth and power into the hands of a select few.

It is all about wealth and power and spirit for profit.

If he succeeds, it will not only bring him immense wealth and power but alter the course of history.

The change of context invites us to consider how wealth and power find aesthetic form today.

Instead, I think that a major source of the support for making energy seem scarce comes from those people whose wealth and power is sourced from the perception that energy is scarce.

Abuse to increase personal wealth and power has no religious or scientific boundaries.

Living in the present moment, they prefer to enjoy the simple pleasures of life instead of seeking wealth and power.

But a few superstar firms have acquired unprecedented wealth and power through their use of the personal data we give them each time we use their services.

They know with a future fear, they can get a population to give up economic wealth and power in exchange for a false sense of security.

The ONLY obstacle is the massive, entrenched wealth and power of the fossil fuel corporations.

The themes explored, mainly the hardships that come with wealth and power, are rarely given spark.

Along the way, she raises significant questions about the origins of evil, the capability of the individual and the distribution of wealth and power.

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.

Economic globalization has created class societies with differences in wealth and power as great as those against which Marx protested.

Ours is a society that has amassed more wealth and power than any other in history.

Truth is its defense against wealth and power.

He proves his military and strategic prowess again and again, helping his father amass tremendous wealth and power.

The United States has great material wealth and power.

Besides vast wealth and power, the Apple executive seems trapped in a kernel panic of identical talking points, all of which The New York Times» Andrew Ross Sorkin allowed him to rehash this morning in a Dealbook piece loudly...

Both portrayals, though, suggest a distant man so paranoid of his own wealth and power that he can hardly put either to good use («When a man becomes wealthy,» says Plummer's Getty, as though he's reciting scripture, «he has to deal with the problem of freedom»).

But the Tories are ruthless for their class and protecting wealth and power instills discipline amongst those who legally facilitate the legal nicking of the surplus labour of working people whose labour really creates the wealth and makes society work.

J. Christopher Giancarlo's recent speech at Vanderbilt University Law School underlined «the relevance of a principles - based approach to legal education» that is built into the architecture of decentralized networks of distributed wealth and power.

- Redistributive, to militate against growing inequalities in wealth and power within and between nations.

I am more cynical myself and think Perry is a fake who uses faith to further a political career on behalf of the hidden manipulators of extreme wealth and power.

The demands for devolution, a minimum wage, didn't go up against the power of big business, didn't signal a shift in wealth and power towards working people.

«And the reason is clear: we stand for popular policies to shift wealth and power from the few to the many.

Supposedly the People's Republic, but obviously an oligarchy and we have business practice that basically would rather share wealth and power with Communist China than with the American middle class.

Professor Bill Mitchell explains why Europe is killing off the economy and that austerity is a means of transferring wealth and power upwards.

If you don't believe me, go play ProgressQuest, an «automated» RPG where you do absolutely nothing while your character adventures, gaining wealth and power.

The New York Times said it «may be the greatest concentration of American wealth and power in one investment fund.»

It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them.»

«We have not witnessed such extreme levels of concentrated wealth and power since the first gilded age a century ago,» the report says.

Zuckerberg and Sandberg have been happy to amass great wealth and power relying upon other people's money and the public's trust, but they do not want to be accountable to those who supply the needed resources.

History shows that wealth and power routinely change.

The individual quest for wealth and power seems to be unchecked.

The discussion of interests assumes that the desire for wealth and power exercises a strong influence on thought.

They could, however, claim solidarity with ancient Christians who rejected worldly wealth and power.

Issues of race, gender and inequalities of wealth and power cease to exist at the Lord's table.

Morressy's Mansions is a tale of the ironies of providence — how God, operating through the desires of secular men who prize wealth and power, brings about the ends of faith.