Sentences with phrase «who handed power»

To be fair to the politicians, the soldiers of the Gowon, Murtala Muhammed and Obasanjo era who handed power back to Shagari had prepared the way for Nigeria's looming insolvency, even though in their cases it may be said that the road to hell was paved with good intentions!

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There are a lot of people who are opposed to the death penalty not because they think no one ever deserves to die for their crimes, but because they think the government shouldn't have the power to hand out such a punishment, even when that punishment is justified.

Who wouldn't be excited about more power in the hands of people, the computer as an extension of the brain, a «bicycle for the mind,» as Steve put it?

If the so - called Winnipeg mafia — those power brokers who hail from the keystone province — ever handed out loyalty cards, Rick Waugh would warrant super-elite status.

On the other hand, there are customers of Nova Scotia Power, ratepayers who want a cheap, stable supply of electricity.

Part of the reason for his appointment was that he would stay the course after Jacques Lamarre's departure, and eventually hand off the company to Lamarre's son Patrick, who currently heads the power division.

«There are people out there who are voicing probably justifiable concerns about putting more power into the hands of fewer and fewer organizations.

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

And doesn't it seem notable that in the face of the effect that $ 40 000 had, there is 16 times the power in the hand of some hackers, and other tokens owned by early adopter individuals or just other hackers, scammers, whoever, who have the power to orchestrate the daily drama of the entire cryptoworld?

The news of Gorka's departure was greeted with resignation by Trump loyalists, who believe the president has handed over too much power to military officers and former generals — including his new chief of staff, John Kelly, and national security adviser H.R. McMaster — and is losing any connection to the base that elected him.

Its fans talk about it in the same tones that the web's pioneers did - enabling radical transparency and taking power out of the hands of those who abuse it.

There are hundreds of volunteers all over B.C. who continue to organize one another and build capacity to stop Big Oil and put decision - making power back into the hands of everyday people.

Two young women are using the power of social media to warn teenagers about sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of a Montreal tattoo artist who used his boutique as a hangout for troubled girls when he sexually abused them.

I have laid hands on people who are lying on their death bed, and placed my hand on the head of the demon possessed and seen them delivered by the power of Jesus Christ.

Al - Mulk In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Blessed be He in Whose hands is Dominion: and He over all things Hath Power --(1) He Who created Death and Life, that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might, Oft - Forgiving --(2) He Who created the seven heavens one above another; no want of proportion wilt thou see in the Creation of (Allah) Most Gracious.

The idea of Hell and that you're going there was planted in your mind by someone else who held in their hands the power to inform you who is going there and who isn't.

«Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities — Voltaire» — could be «There is no religion with clean hands, they all came to power through violence and a sypathetic ruler».

Power does not come from God to the gov «t, it comes from the people to the gov «t. Similarly, it is the people who judge anothers actions as acceptable or unacceptable in regards to common good and ability to work within the society at hand.

who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high..»

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

Presumably the persons who sat at the right and left hand of an oriental monarch shared in his power.

Dreams of peace and justice, dreams that I — and communist children alike — had been fed, were dangerous delusions in the hands of those who had the power and ambition to try to realize them fully.

This leaves the public not only ill - prepared to make decisions, but also delivers us into the hands of profit - making commercial powers who are more than eager, in Neil Postman's perceptive phrase, to «amuse us to death.»

Radiant Word, blazing Power, you who mould the manifold so as to breathe your life into it; I pray you, lay on us those your hands — powerful, considerate, omnipresent, those hands which do not (like our human hands) touch now here, now there, but which plunge into the depths and the totality, present and past, of things so as to reach us simultaneously through all that is most immense and most inward within us and around us.

So many lives in places like Africa have actually been made WORSE by giving money and food that ends up in the hands of war lords and tin - pot dictators, who just use it increase their personal wealth and consolidate their power.

For many people I know, a Higher Power can be a group of friends gathered to share support, it can be the parole officer who holds your freedom in his hands, it can be the doctor doing surgery on you... tons of things.

If our economic and technological advance has placed power in the hands of those who are not answerable to any democratic process; weakened our families neighborhoods as it turned individuals into mobile, competitive achievers; undermined our morality and stripped us of tradition — as I think it has — then we must consider where else to turn.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than thwho at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than thWho being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

who innocently suffers the consequences of other people's injustices, and who as the creative Word of God has the power and authority to identify with every victim of injustice and, as the one who suffers at our hands, grants us absolution from our evil.

Because the story is an allegory; Jesus speaks in parables, because he is a parable, for his alter ego, Judas, who for the last 2,000 years has been in the hands of self - confessed sinners (Christians), who have indeed entreated him spitefully, and have done every thing in their power to have you believe that he is dead, (although it's never written that he has died, or that he was ever buried, either).

Hebrews 1:1 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than thwho at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than thWho being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

On the other hand, we have known those in power who do love God and neighbor.

This scripture does nt conflict in these verses we see the truth exposed as God allows satan to have limited power over his people to test them as in the story of Job.So was it God who tested job by allowing satan to bring trails upon him.Or was it satan who was the one testing him.Both are involved but the motivations are completely different Gods purposes are to build up his people.Satan on the other hand wants to destroy there is this conflict at work all the time.brentnz

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

The result was the rapid buying up of stations by large networks, which made possible the centralization of power in the hands of only a few multinational corporations who now own every part of the broadcasting system — radio, TV, cable, and satellite.

In mainstream hands, such typologies become power plays to keep in their place those who might challenge the reigning explanatory categories.

Since the Syriac fathers see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the Apostles.

Will a world ruler rise to power in the near future who will force everyone to get a Mark on their hand or forehead in order to track their buying and selling?

Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6

Since Iran feels they were put into power by Gods hand and rule with Gods blessing so anyone who is against them is against God.

Copeland calls Roberts, who believed that God had anointed his right hand with healing power, his «spiritual father.»

Though Jesus had not, it is true, announced himself to Israel as the Messiah, and had forbidden the demons to make him known — since they knew him» — and had even commanded his disciples to be silent about their recognition of his Messiahship, nevertheless, at the last, in the high priest's court, he had admitted unequivocally that he was the one who should sit at the right hand of the divine Power (God) and come with the clouds of heaven.

There are many like this official who literally have blood on their hands in ading abetting and covering up, and many who continue to value status power and money over children's lives.

The Democratic recovery of dominance in the U.S. Congress may have been made possible by popular weariness with the Iraq War, but it is clear that the real power lies in the hands, not of the populist anti-war movement, but of those who are angry with Bush for setting back the American imperialist program.

The See of Peter fell into the hands of men who were more interested in using it as a power in Italian politics, in aggrandizing the members of their families, or in promoting art and their own personal pleasures than they were in making it effective in furthering the spiritual and moral life of Europe.

Sorry, but I won't take marching orders from some guy who is reading from a book that was held in the power of corrupt men tanslated numerous times by the method of hand written copies.

They were easy pawns in the hands of the great powers who knew how to set them against each other, how to divide and conquer.

The mark of the beast is spiritual, and identical to the pledged of allegiance to the flag, because worshipping doesn't come from a chip, or any technology device, although we are surrounded by human devices... The name of the beast is going to be written in the heart, or in the mind on those who worship the beast, because worshipping is of the heart, or of the mind... When the Germans used their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, there was no physical mark in the right hand, or forehead of the German pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, was written in the heart, or in the mind of the German pledger... When the US uses their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, there is no physical mark in the right hand, or on the forehead of the pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, is written in the heart, or in the mind of the pledger... The devil uses Romans 13 to deceive those who are pledging allegiance to the flag, because they do not believe what God said in Ex.20: 1 - 5, and De.4: 15 - 19... When a person pledges allegiance to a man, or to a flag, or to a nation, they are heading for destruction, because God said; «cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD Jer.17: 5 KJV... Whatever happened to the Germans who trusted in Hitler, or on their military power?

The few Christian pastors out there who understand that the world takes those chunks out of us, too, will hand over Jesus and His healing and regenerative power... without any strings attached.