Sentences with phrase «wealth and power as»

Narcos details Escobar's rise to wealth and power as the face behind one of the largest drug cartels of all time, based out of Medellin, Colombia.

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

Though they were generally regular, faithful members of Catholic services (until the Reformation), they seem to have viewed the worldly Church establishment in its wealth and power as corrupt.

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Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

As I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthAs I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthas the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthy.

«The stock prices are still not reflecting the earnings power that's likely to show up here in this quarter and for the year as a whole,» said Leo Grohowski, chief investment officer at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which has been overweight the energy sector.

Jeff Immelt, former CEO of global conglomerate General Electric, brings star power and a wealth of experience to his new role as chairman of the maturing health - care firm Athenahealth, analysts say.

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The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

Officials in Washington, who have been pressing Mr. Samper to aggressively pursue Mr. Rodriguez Orejuela and the other Cali drug leaders as they have flaunted their power and wealth for years with little official interference, praised the capture.

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Now, morale has sunk so low that some employees refer to Ms. Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, as «Evita» — an allusion to Eva Peron, the former first lady of Argentina whose outsize ego and climb to power and wealth were chronicled in the musical of that name.

Crude demand sure to fall with low industry growth, people getting poorer (as a result of concentration of wealth in few hands) and increasing CNG and electric powered cars.

That is not free - market capitalism as capitalists do not forgive debt and, as evidenced by the Reaganomic fallout we are living in today, they like to hoard wealth and assets in order to wield more power and control.

Jesus will wipe away all tears, but he will be very angry at those who rejected Him and intentionally caused all the tears because they craved power over others, wealth beyond a lifetime's use and did not believe they'd ever go to their graves as other than respected people who at the end created charities and got hospitals and universities named after them.

If the church is the representative of Jesus to the world, then to the degree that the church seeks to meet our own needs before the needs of others, desires to control the beliefs and behaviors of others (both inside and outside the church), and chases after glory, fame, power, wealth, and recognition before men, is the same degree to which the church presents Jesus as a Satanic Messiah to the watching world.

Power and wealth become the defining characteristics of those the churches hold up as great.

From the Quranic verse above we understand that the People Although Equal in Rights but are still in Ranks as when it comes to knowledge, wealth and power... Same things apply to Countries although Equal in Rights but still in Ranks as when it comes to knowledge, wealth and power...!

As was pointed out above, wealth translates into economic power and control through corporate stock and nonincorporated businesses, real estate and state and local bonds.

Sadly, Judas was not the last person to see Jesus as a means to an earthly end, such as power, wealth and so on.

Excepting parts of Proverbs and Psalms and the tenth chapter of I Kings (in which the uncritical praise of «Solomon in all his glory» is based on his power, pleasure and wealth), the biblical literature exposes the American success dream as mythical and full of false confidence.

East European Pentecostals have no wealth, institutional power or privilege to lose; so when need arises, they go to prison and turn their prisons into «Bible schools» to convert their jailers, as St. Paul did, They spread faith and hope to fellow prisoners as Black Muslims have done in some American prisons.

2) As such it is withdrawn from the world, where «the world» is understood in its (originally Platonic, later Christian) sense as the locus of competition and struggle for wealth, power, prestige, and statuAs such it is withdrawn from the world, where «the world» is understood in its (originally Platonic, later Christian) sense as the locus of competition and struggle for wealth, power, prestige, and statuas the locus of competition and struggle for wealth, power, prestige, and status.

References to America's wealth or power as God's means of evangelizing the world are also rare among Liberals, and religious apologetics for capitalism are virtually taboo.

As a result, considerable concentrations of wealth and power are required by the mass media of communication.

We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has grown.

In truth, as a class of people, gays have disproportionate access to wealth and power.

It also concentrates power as well as wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

This gives great power and wealth to the private banks and burdens the government and the population as a whole with large interest payment.

It is simply about control of others for power and wealth as nothing has changed in the past 10,000 years.

Great Post, Unfortunately he exists for many people as a tool, to be used to attain power and wealth.

As we have noted, the current distributional pattern characterized by gross concentration of land in the hands of the few is the basis for the concentration of both wealth and political power.

That is what the church and the nation need today as we blunder into a world in which the desire of Americans for wealth and power has been the source of so much benevolence, and yet so much anguish and death.

Yes, some used religion to grab the power and wealth as well but religion is not God nor are the ways of most religions the way of God.

We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

If material wealth and power are of no importance because your values are placed on the afterlife and with your imagary savior then why the fuc.k would anyone want you, a person with a literal death wish, as president?

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

But as the private property system became the soil in which the lust for possessions and the worship of wealth grew up, so the possibility of national independence provided opportunity for the growth of religious nationalism, the worship of the nation, and the lust for national power and glory.

But I would rather be here in this imperfect place than outside where I see Grace disappearing, where most have lost faith in the world that pushes it's children into employment where money, power and influence is the only road to happiness, where dog eat dog is the Tag Line which tries to conceal avarice by saying The Wealth creators help the poor as it eventually trickles down.

Indeed, Hartshorne's catalogue of ills that afflict those who have lost faith in nature and God as friends is a frightful list: «men are likely to grow bitter, or depressed and fearful, or genially cynical and selfish, or mad with megalomaniac ambition, or slavishly worshipful of power or wealth — or just dull and apathetic and unimaginative, like a number of agnostics I have known.

My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne and Yeezus represented a hard thematic turn: They deal with the opulence of celebrity culture and the intoxicating power of wealth and fame — as well as, ultimately, all of the inner darkness they can bring forth.

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

To be honest I get where you are coming from but I think the whole deviation of tithing and wheather its important for today can be summed up in Deut 8: 18 — «But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

As Shi'as tell it, by 656, when Uthman died and Muslim rule extended into eastern Iran, Armenia, Syria and Egypt, upper - class Muslims had become obsessed with power and wealth.

Much as the Puritans encouraged work in a calling, they were always aware of the dangers of making wealth and power into ends in themselves, dangers not only to one's eternal salvation but also to the coherence of the community.

Most of the founding fathers would not have waxed quite as warm about the «hope of profit» and the ambitions for «the comfort, power and influence that wealth brings,» as did the National Association of Manufacturers.

American society would continue as in the past to devote itself to the accumulation of wealth and power.

A faith that can not correct its errors can only result in the corruption of Truth and faith, and so Christianity became precisely what Christ taught against in the gospels at the origin of the Catholic Church as his message was discarded to in the interests of wealth and power to defend it.

The growing preoccupation with heresy in the thirteenth century, as became apparent at the Lateran Council, seems to have been partly due to the scandals that accompanied the wealth and political power of the medieval papacy.

Sound doctrine has deep social roots, not merely the ephemeral ones in wealth, strength, prestige and power — though, thank goodness, the church as its share of those — but also in humanity's awesome diversity.