Sentences with phrase «which hold the power»

But there the assumption of everyone - missionary and indigenous persons alike - was that the culture of literacy, the culture and communications system that the church had mastered and in which it held power, was superior.

Faith is a very powerful thing — but it's the faith itself which holds the power — not necessarily what you believe in — especially when it's something zealots have fed to you.

Under the terms of the devolution settlement it was Edinburgh, not London, which held the power to release or keep in prison Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 and was serving a 27 - year sentence.

Ekwueme, a founding member of the party which held power for 16 years, said PDP was formed as a «mass movement» but along the way, it was hijacked by selfish interests.

All of which hold the power to help transform your health.

A group of freedom fighters, led by the heroic He - Man are accidentally transported to Earth by a mysterious Cosmic Key which holds the power to make Skeletor all - powerful.

The grille on top of the projector is punctuated by a black bar, which holds a power button, a microphone, a pair of LED indicators, and a touch bar for volume adjustment.

To end the killing, we need to regulate shelters and mandate how they operate in the same way we regulate hospitals and other agencies which hold the power over life and death.

Ted Baillieu was premier from December 2010 to March 2013, he was replaced by the Denis Napthine Government, also Liberal / National, which held power to December 2014.

The distributed ledger system powered by Blockchain technology which no supreme maintaining authority but worldwide accessibility is the tool which holds the power to change the face of global civilization.

Not exact matches

The Russian veto was a defeat for the United States, which has been lobbying for months for Iran to be held accountable at the United Nations, while at the same time threatening to quit a 2015 deal among world powers to curb Iran's nuclear program if «disastrous flaws» are not fixed.

The End of Power, which argues that the power once held by institutions is now wielded by individuals, was not exactly obscure before Power, which argues that the power once held by institutions is now wielded by individuals, was not exactly obscure before power once held by institutions is now wielded by individuals, was not exactly obscure before this.

because when push comes to shove, there is only nation which can project hard power in a meaningful, decisive manner: the U.S. Bankrupt, wounded, in decline, however you wish to characterize the U.S., it holds decisive dominance in hard power.

Millennials hold most of the buying power in retail today, which underscores the importance of marketing toward millennials this holiday season.

In fact, Australia's stock exchange is already dead set on switching to a blockchain - powered system for their operations, which is designed by the blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings.

It is easy to design a search box as almost every site these days is powered by a database on the back - end, which is what holds the products (if a store) or the articles (if a blog), and so forth.

Kalanick's large holdings of Class B shares, which awarded him 10 - to - 1 voting power, will transform so each shareholder has one vote per share, The New York Times reported.

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

Sempra Energy said it will buy Oncor for $ 9.45 billion in cash after Energy Future Holdings Corp, which indirectly owns Oncor, abandoned a deal to sell the power transmission company to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc..

In it, the authors discuss a shift from «old power,» which they define as being «held by few» and «closed, inaccessible and leader - driven,» to «new power,» which is «made by many» and «open, participatory and peer - driven.»

Holding out gives you more bargaining power, which ensures you'll keep more control.

VEM II is advised directly and / or indirectly by Valor Management Corp., which may be deemed to have shared voting and investment power with respect to the shares held of record by VEM II.

The Commerce Clause allows Congress the power «to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes,» which was later held by courts to include «the channels of commerce, the instrumentalities of commerce, and action that substantially affects interstate commerce.»

Iceland and Greenland have approached the company to try to persuade it to build mining operations in their countries which offer «similar power rates, along with tax breaks and incentives... [p] lus, the usually low temperatures there hold down the costs of cooling high - powered computers.»

Alice L. Walton, Jim C. Walton and S. Robson Walton share voting and dispositive power with respect to all Shares held by Walton Enterprises, LLC, individually as managing members of Walton Enterprises, LLC, and in their capacities as co-trustees of the John T. Walton Estate Trust, which is also a managing member of Walton Enterprises, LLC.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

[2] In Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. v. JCC Holding Co., [3] Vice Chancellor Leo Strine addressed the extent to which Delaware law permits restrictions on that power:

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

A «Republic» is defined as a State in which the supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.

To me, it is interesting to look at the model that's often held up as being remarkably successful since the end of WWII which is the mercantilist model that Japan followed which was to protect domestic industries at all costs and then use government money and power to boost your export sector.

Power that is not purchased by private entities is held by the Balancing Pool, which is owned by the government and mandated to return savings to consumers in the form of credits on their power bPower that is not purchased by private entities is held by the Balancing Pool, which is owned by the government and mandated to return savings to consumers in the form of credits on their power bpower bills.

Apollo Power (formerly SolarPaint) became active on the stock exchange just over two months ago, after completing the merger of its solar energy activity (which has yet to generate revenue) into stock market shell company Or City Holdings, formerly controlled by Inbal Or.

That's why it's critical to understand the personas of each member on the committee — and be clear about who holds decision power and which content is relevant to each.

Press Release — MIAMI, Florida — September 26, 2017 — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a leading global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands, today announced a partnership with All Hands Volunteers, the world's leading disaster relief organization powered by volunteers, and set a goal to raise $ 2.5 million for the Hope Starts Here hurricane relief program.

I know even some believers are offended by some of the things I write, but to them I'll simply say this: the Word of God is the most powerful thing that exists - both the written word and the Living word; and it's time to start believing God and to take hold of the ident.ity that He has given you and live and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge» which unfortunately only 8 % of the body of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that individuals mature to the place where they have the power to co-create with God and bring the future into the present.

Jews and Christians held great political power, which threatened these tyrants» political power.

Webb lacks critical appreciation for the ways in which the powerful can appeal to providence in self - serving ways, convincing themselves that their hold on power is itself a sign of God's favor.

It is only the increased power of the military forces which is holding back a revolutionary resolution of the dilemma.

When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.

For it is through wisdom, which is Christ, that God holds power over all things.»

People have rejected theism because they held untenable the idea of a mind not subject to change or to interaction with other beings, or a mind omnipotent in the sense that its power was all the power in existence, or a mind having precise knowledge of details of the future (or of all times from the standpoint of eternity), or a mind creating a first state of the cosmos at a finite time in the past, or knowing all suffering although it did not itself suffer, or an all - embracing mind which in no sense could be identified with the universe, or one which could in every sense be identified with it.

I give to you what I give to no one else, and that is my seed, my procreative power, which, united to your seed, can incarnate our love, take on flesh that will be the living fruit of our love, the proof also that we want our love to be a gift to God and to the future.1 I have expanded on this at length elsewhere.2 Holding to our present topic, let us look a bit more closely at those issues of justice involved in this divine plan of the union of man and woman in marriage.

The church has lost some of its power to hold people in that peculiar bond of fellowship which is forged by communal repetition.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It is this shift in how truth is perceived and appropriated that is one of the factors creating resistance to electronic culture by theologians and clergy, whose understanding of faith has been strongly shaped by the characteristics and requirements of print culture in which they were educated and by virtue of which they hold status and power.

The principal surviving exception is the number 13, which still holds a strange power over Fridays, and over the listing of floors in hotels and high rises.

Richard J. Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 184, give specific content to Dom Helder Camara's words: «Global companies have used their great levers of power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer Power of the Multinational Corporations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 184, give specific content to Dom Helder Camara's words: «Global companies have used their great levers of power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer jobs.

Those who hold this view point out that after the Pharisees claim that Jesus is performing miracles by the power of Satan (Matt 12:24), Jesus calls them an «evil generation» which deserves condemnation for rejecting the Messiah (Matt 12:39 - 42).

It is a poignant story of people trying to hold on to their faith and community, but finally coming to terms with changes to which royal power gave the appearance of inevitability.

(75) Say, «Do you worship besides Allah that which holds for you no [power of] harm or benefit while it is Allah who is the Hearing, the Knowing?»