Sentences with phrase «wealth and power seems»

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

Not exact matches

Given Redstone's power and wealth — then estimated at more than $ 6 billion — the dispute seemed almost beneath his notice.

Now it seems it is his turn to wreak havoc on the cozy networks of power and wealth that have established themselves in the era of «socialism with Chinese characteristics».

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.

Having conquered the wilderness and built a nation unparalleled in power and wealth, we seem to have lost our clear vision of a future worthy of sacrifice and struggle.

We cry foul when wealthy lobbyists in Washington unfairly wield their power to the detriment of the «little people,» yet we seem blind to how deeply wealth and power have corrupted the Church.

To many Christianity seemed a possible key to the power which was the envy of non-Europeans and a vehicle by which the desired techniques of the Occident might be acquired by those who hoped through them to attain the position and the wealth which the West possessed.

The continuous expansion of wealth and power, which is what the rationalization of means meant in practice, did not seem so self - evidently goad.

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.

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.

Popularity, wealth, size, physical attractiveness, accomplishments and power can all increase the status of an individual by making him or her seem impressive and valued.

Soon he has more power and wealth than he's ever dreamed of, and for a while all seems to be well.

The contemporary gallery system seems to be mirroring the distribution of wealth in the United States — there is a 1 % of the gallery world (Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Blum & Poe, etc.) that seems to hold the majority of the power, capital and visibility.

Wealth and the power it purchases seem to rule their lives...... and the wholeness of the human world.

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.