Sentences with phrase «when powerful interests»

Deep states tend to arise when powerful interests are threatened.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

Of great interest to me, as with all documents written during the first three centuries of the church, is to read what things were like before the conversion of Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules today.

There was a time when the West took great efforts to protect the poor and weak, but today the rich and powerful work to advance their interests, rather then seeking justice for the poor and week.

The point is that ideas have powerful consequences for action when there is a direct relationship between their content and the crucial interests of those who hold them already or hear them for the first time.

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

Funny how we instinctually suspect the motives of aliens more powerful than us in fiction, but when faced with a god who fits this bill we are supposed to just trust that he has our best interests in mind.

A powerful lobby of Australian business and education interests in Asia this week warned the move was already making it harder to recruit staff and would damage Australia's people - to - people engagement with Asia at a time when it was trying to build a closer relationship with the region.

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I think Keynes was over-egging the pudding when he wrote, in the famous peroration to his General Theory, that the world is ruled by «little else» other than ideas, but I fervently agree with him that ideas «are more powerful than is commonly understood»; and that «soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or ill».

It's why when I stood on the steps of Number 10 for the first time as Prime Minister 84 days ago, I said that the Government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the rich and powerful, but by the interests of ordinary, working class people.

And when key decisions are at hand, we'll light up the Wall to let politicians who side with powerful interests against clean energy do so at their own peril.

«It is not a surprise, and we've seen it in many other cases — when a progressive tries to get something done, there's lots of powerful interests that put money into trying to stop it,» said the mayor.

Indeed as this podcast shows, when a Congressman is choosing between money from a big powerful interest group or the letters from his constituents, he'll choose the letters every time.

When TP suggested this to one powerful eurosceptic Tory backbencher, he seemed interested.

«When gifts are exchanged, a feeling of gratitude is natural, but voters should be concerned how policymakers show their gratitude towards powerful interest groups.»

«At a time when the city is being forced to do more with less, it is outrageous that the state would create a new unfunded mandate that will benefit a politically powerful special interest group,» said Bloomberg spokesman Mark Botnick.

When asked whether getting her campaign fines paid off by powerful city unions had the appearance of undue influence, Palma said she was not beholden to any special interest.

The way that you make people feel when they read your work has a powerful impact on your ability to garner public interest and monetary support.

Personally, looking back to my teen years when I was just starting to get interested in fitness and working out, I wish that I understood all of the powerful exercise and diet secrets that I do today.

Sulforaphane has captured the interest of researchers not only because it is such a powerful activator of glutathione S - transferase, but also because it does not increase the activity of other liver detoxification enzymes called «phase 1» enzymes that, when elevated to inappropriate levels, increase the concentration of dangerous free radicals within the cell.

Candle Gazing This interesting form of meditation called Trataka can be very powerful when used as a healing and purification therapy for the eyes and to boost better sleeping habits.

Personally, looking back to my teen years when I was just starting to get interested in fitness and exercising, I wish that I understood all of the powerful training and nutrition secrets that I do today, about 20 years later.

There is an awful lot of rose - tinted nostalgia here for a time when women sat passively while powerful men threw wealth at them, but the interesting difference here is that the power dynamic between Red Riding Hood and the Wolf shifts.

With the help of the prison's chief trustee (Yaphet Kotto) and a compassionate ally (Jane Alexander), the warden effects some positive change, but powerful business interests line up against him when his ideas threaten their financial bottom line.

Chalamet's meteoric rise, following a year in which Hollywood was tipped on its head, makes him one of the most interesting young men of 2018; remaining a powerful ally to the LGBT community, being vocal when men three times his age are silent; becoming the youngest Best Actor nominee at the Oscars since 1944 and knowing all the lyrics to Bodak Yellow.

Nothing is more powerful than when teachers get together to further their own professional interests.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Nevertheless, powerful interest groups were able to use the climate of urgency created by the report to get their own preferred policies enacted, even when the policies were not recommended by Risk.

Given the powerful, well - funded interests behind the plan, no one would describe it as the kind of grassroots effort the Founding Fathers had in mind when they dreamed of a dynamic democracy driven by engaged citizens.

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But when a thing has been done a certain way for a long time, resisting change can be a reflexive instinct, and the powerful interests of the status quo are hard to move.

Issuetastic fiction that turns up - to - date, politically loaded topical material into powerful works of stating the obvious whose aim is to educate the Uninformed or Casually Interested Westerner in the ways of another culture at a time when that culture or nation is under scrutiny, or has the western gaze upon it and needs to answer for itself in an accessible and heart - tugging manner.

When you focus on providing valuable content and having interesting conversation about the topic of your book it can have a powerful effect.

This was an interesting and powerful choice as it psychologically connects viewers with the person in the image, and communicates safety and satisfaction (as opposed to communicating, «this is what investors look like when they're investing»).

The Chase Slate card is designed for people who want to get out of debt and save on interest charges, with the powerful Blueprint feature that allows you to choose your own everyday purchase categories — such as groceries or gasoline — and avoid paying interest on these charges, even when you carry a balance, by paying them in full every month.

In this 30 November 2006 article with the enticing title Improving returns using inside information James Montier explains the results of a unknown but interesting research paper on share buybacks and how they, when implemented, are a powerful indicator for positive returns.

This is especially interesting because it hints at Taj Chan Ahk's ability to remain powerful at a time when other Mayan city - states were in decline.

PS4 is a more powerful piece of machinery but when half the user - base digs netflix, media and 4k blu - rays things really start getting interesting.

One interesting thing to note about team battles is that the team will have a shared energy bar — players can deplete that bar to cast their more powerful spells, but might be incentivised not to — when it becomes full, one player in the team can cast an «ultimate» attack.

It is interesting that despite owning the more expensive and powerful console from Sony, fans will still have to wait a while before they can utilize the hardware and play the game on 4K when the game itself is releasing almost 3 weeks after the launch of the new console.

«In a world with games and movies that feature superheroes and powerful characters that face extinction - level threats all the time, it's always interesting to play as characters like Delsin (Infamous: Second Son), Nathan Drake (Uncharted) or Aloy — characters that have to discover what it is they're good at, improvise when thrust into dangerous situations, and handle threats that exist more on a personal level than a global one.

The most interesting rumor surrounding the Nintendo Switch's specs is that the console will be more powerful when stationed in its dock.

Sociologists are always in danger of being seen as paranoids, all the more so when they oppose powerful vested interests.

The U.S. influence, moreover, is all the more powerful because most Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests, to further a U.S. agenda.

Dr. Mann, who now works at Penn State University, said in a statement: «It is a victory not just for me and the university, but for all scientists who live in fear that they may be subject to a politically - motivated witch hunt when their research findings prove inconvenient to powerful vested interests.»

It will be interesting (and sad) to see when fossil fuels no longer have the value they do today (because of their unintended damage to the earth's climate), and when at the same time they turn out to be the cause of Texas» downfall as a wealthy and powerful state, i.e. when unrelenting water resource issues (and here and here) drive half the population away, and leave the state a shell of its once arrogant self.

We're lucky that we don't live in the days when coming up with a scientific theory that was inconvenient for powerful interests could get one burned at the stake.

It is on display daily in courtrooms across the country, especially when ordinary citizens, forced to represent themselves, are facing professional counsel representing powerful interests.