Sentences with phrase «wealth and power into»

He believes there is something profoundly wrong with our system — the unchecked accumulation of wealth and power into the hands of a very small group of corporate business interests has contributed to the wholesale corruption of our political system.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Not the real estate mogul we know, but rather his Mexican namesake, a construction worker, who wasn't born into wealth and power.

«So if we want to see women in power, let's help each other create wealth and let's redeploy that wealth into helping other women grow amazing businesses.

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.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

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.

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.

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.

Three times it is said that the kings of the earth commit fornication with the great harlot, the city of greed and lust (17:2; 18:3, 9), But in the end the kings of the earth bring their glory, their wealth and power, into the holy city.

You're buying into the lie, because there are and have been people in power who want us to continue to decimate our economy and our nation, pouring all of our wealth into the hands of a few weapons manufacturers and oil corporations.

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.

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.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

Defendant using his influence, wealth and power lured plaintiff into a relationship and tried spoiling, debase and corrupting the mind of plaintiff by sending plaintiff nude pictures, sex video and masturbating video through Skype, Whatsapp and asked plaintiff to do same.

«The next Labour government will shift the balance of power and wealth away from a few gilded places in the South East and back into the rest of country,» he said.

Washington, DC About Blog The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide by strengthening the wealth creating capacity of our members and promoting economic development within the entrepreneurial community.

So in this action strategy game, there is an emphasis on Musou tactics as players transform into a mercenary which requires them to fight for one of the two factions as they build their power and wealth to become a true contender.

As Mrs. Grey, Ana now has the ability and power to do anything she pleases, but as a person who's married into vast wealth, she must learn its restrictions and limitations.

Settle into the 14 - way power driver seat with memory and admire the wealth of amenities such as dual - zone automatic climate control, split - folding rear seats, and keyless start.

There is great power... for better health... more happiness and greater wealth... when you turn your passion into profit.

When young Lady Anne Macleod runs off with her true love, the handsome young falconer, Kirk Buchanan, she inadvertently sets off a chain of events that turns her young daughter, Cordaella, into a pawn between wealthy lords locked in a game of power, wealth, and greed.

Tap into the power of the Victoria Stilwell brand and you instantly gain impact, credibility, reach, and a wealth of ready - to - use marketing materials and tools.

After climbing into the Appalachian backwoods of West Virginia, US ‑ 50 emerges suddenly into the wealth and power of downtown Washington, D.C., before passing through the still perfectly picturesque fishing and farming communities of Maryland's Eastern Shore.

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These monsters, seeking «variety» in a life already full of wealth and power, have been siphoning a man's blood for a risky high, a chance to peer into the Void, the realm of the Outsider.

Indeed, in our time of instant communication, «problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience of those with power: thus the problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.»

Thrust into the art world before the age of twentyone, Basquiat was particularly fascinated by words relating to systems of buying and selling, power, wealth, value and authenticity.

According to scholar Richard Marshall, Basquiat «continually selected and injected into his works words which held charged references and meanings — particularly to his deep - rooted concerns about race, human rights, the creation of power and wealth.»

In this figure Shonibare re-imagines a reconstruction of the trappings of power, bringing into sharp focus the contradiction faced by all societies which aspire to do well and «get rich»; where the process of creating vast amounts of wealth relies on the hardships of a labour class.

Spite Your Face is a tale across two worlds - with a bright, glittering and ordered upper world, and a warped, dirty, impoverished lower world - where the lure of wealth, power and adoration entices a destitute young boy into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above.

So in the end, we have the age - old problem of the concentration of wealth and therefore power into the hands of a limited elite, which in this case has morphed into a survival strategy for that elite in an increasingly uncertain future.

The Union (Industry) Super Funds — controlled by the likes of former Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet and his best mate Garry Weaven of Pac Hydro fame — into which hundreds of $ billions of union members» money is siphoned — have thrown $ billions at wind power outfits (see our post here) in an effort to cash in the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the Commonwealth (see our post here).

Because when I see the storms that we're all heading into, the scarcity and instability and violence, and I see what those with wealth and power are prepared to do to hold onto that wealth and power — when I see my country scapegoating entire classes of people and closing its doors to desperate refugees — I know it matters all the more what kind of a government, what kind of a democracy, what kind of a society we have, what kind of a people we will be, as we head into that future.

At the end of the day, my take on it all is simple: If The Club Of Rome is involved in something, it is highly suspect and most likely both very wrong and very likely to move your wealth into the hands of the power elite.

The scientists are merely useful tools to them, used to get control of the public so they and their friends can enrich themselves via carbon taxes and carbon trading schemes and redistribute your wealth to the poorer countries under the guise of saving the planet (where I'd venture a guess the vast majority will disappear into a numbered bank accounts someplace), all while enriching themselves and attempting what I feel could be a part of an attempt to gain dictatorial power over an entire planet.

I would describe it as a shockingly heartless effort to consolidate power and wealth into the hands of the already powerful and wealthy — if we all weren't already fully inoculated to the GOP's routine pursuit of precisely this agenda.

A friend of mine is concerned about the existence today of income inequality that is leading to the accumulation of disproportionate wealth and economic and political power into the hands of a few.

Washington, DC About Blog The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide by strengthening the wealth creating capacity of our members and promoting economic development within the entrepreneurial community.

Washington, DC About Blog The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide by strengthening the wealth creating capacity of our members and promoting economic development within the entrepreneurial community.

Shifting wealth away from the stock market into valuable homes may be seen as a safer bet during a transition of power and a period of pronounced change.