Sentences with phrase «who has power over»

Child sexual abuse is any sexual behavior directed toward a child by a person who has power over that child.

Consider now Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), the Nazi who has power over the Krakow ghetto and later over the camp where the Jews are moved.

(5) This is so, because Allah is the Reality: it is He Who gives life to the dead, and it is He Who has power over all things.

There was a beginning so there is Creator who is perfect in power and wisdom, having power over nature therefore everything is under submission to the One who has power over nature and by definition that is God.

In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human person is treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes of those who have power over others.

They can't see the basic human psychology in stories about a being (or beings) who have power over good and evil, who has the ability to give ot take life, to forgive or to condemn, to create heaven or hell.

A critique group is a bunch of strangers who have no power over your life, while reading your work, telling you what's wrong with it, and giving you tips to fix it.

Not exact matches

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

In this case, the shortfall was due to a disagreement between Serbia and Kosovo, over who was ultimately responsible for the upkeep of a Kosovan power plant (on paper, it appears to have been Serbia, but it's a complicated situation).

Managers who had no direct power over employees (meaning they could not set salaries or promotions) anticipated that they'd have to convince employees of the urgency of the matter.

The quest for reunification is disputed by some North Korean experts who see Kim's nuclear program as primarily a means of retaining power and don't think he would threaten or forcibly try to take over South Korea.

The change, it argued, will result in incomplete information and weaker legal powers for parliamentarians who, under the old system, have better control over where the money will flow and how it will be spent.

Time's Up is a brand new alliance of over 300 women who work in the entertainment industry, who have joined forces to address sexual abuse and correct the widespread imbalance of power for women in entertainment and beyond.

Proponents of the increase in block size argued that the increase in technology over time would mitigate these necessary increases in computing power and network capabilities of those who wished to run a full node.

On a recent earnings call, Mark Okerstrom, who joined Expedia as CEO and president last summer, said, «Over the long term, we have got to be mindful, and we always are mindful, of the incredible market power that Google has,» noting the importance of making sure Expedia's own products are credible and wide - reaching and that its user experiences are localized.

Such conversions of Class B common stock to Class A common stock upon transfer will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B common stock who retain their shares in the long term.

It didn't do much good for Sprint's long - term equity holders who have suffered a catastrophic loss of purchasing power over the past twenty years.

Le Maire's call for G20 nations to join together in comprehensive talks over bitcoin, and cryptocurrency more broadly, echoed recent sentiments from Joachim Wuermeling, a board member at Bundesbank in Germany, who had previously stated, «Effective regulation of virtual currencies would therefore only be achievable through the greatest possible international cooperation, because the regulatory power of nation states is obviously limited.»

Last September, a boutique firm in Washington, called Zerodium, which sells flaws to governments and corporations, announced a $ 1 million bounty for anyone who would turn over an exploit in Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating system — the same operating system used to power the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

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.

, who told him: «Mr. President, the reason nothing has gotten done here is that the gun lobby has had a veto power over any legislation that comes before the Congress.»

Many people who have purchased Bitcoin over the last 6 months have lost as much as 50 % of their purchasing power.

Jesus will wipe away all tears, but he will be very angry at those who rejected Him and intentionally caused all the tears because they craved power over others, wealth beyond a lifetime's use and did not believe they'd ever go to their graves as other than respected people who at the end created charities and got hospitals and universities named after them.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

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.

Nothing so annoying as a «certaintist» spouting their dogma, especially when that «certaintist» is your supervisor who has a formalized power over you.

Over the years, (I am now in my mid - 60's) I have had to leave 4 different churches because of issues of «bullying»... usually from those who were in positions of of great «power» Lay - leaders, Bishops, administrators, choir - «Masters», and even pastors and now my own Priest.

Nicholaes Maes's painting Old Woman at Prayer has hung on my wall for years as a reminder of the many who, hidden and unrecognized, summon God's power into the world through words faithfully uttered over the most daily concerns.

For this reason Holloway frequently defines the essence of the priest as the one who presides and has power over the Body and Blood of the Lord.

Paul's encouragement to Timothy to pray for his nation's leaders came at a time when no one had any control over who was in power.

And politicians, recognizing that America has so many mindless zombies willing to believe that a higher power guides everything from who they marry to what they eat for breakfast, use this game of mind control to sway these gullible voters over to their cause.

For the Almighty God, who, as even the heathen acknowledge, has supreme power over all things, being Himself supremely good, would never permit the existence of anything evil among His works, if He were not so omnipotent and good that He can bring good even out of evil.

This contrasts the unique personal value of an individual's power of self - determination or auto - finality, whereby he has dominion over himself, with the slave who is merely a means for obtaining goals set by others.

These changes also change the structures of power in our society, so that, for example, literate people who know how to access electronic information will have increased power over literate people who don't.

Over the next two years, his power and fame grew as never before, and in 1555, all who had previously opposed John Calvin either fled Geneva or were rounded up and executed.

Authority over matters of life and death belongs to God, who has shared this authority with the governing powers (cf. Romans 13).

Frankly, I worry about the mental and spiritual health of anyone who continues to support the RCC after all the absolutely heinous, irrational, unethical things it has done over the centuries to obtain and maintain power.

Death has no longer any power over us as we who believe have received the gift of eternal life.

Given their enormous political power over the rest of us, we need politicians who have the God - fearing character and integrity to do the right thing every time a decision must be made, regardless of the consequences, regardless of the sacrifices he (and we) will have to make.This is God's world, not ours.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

The spirits of the ones who had violent deaths were believed to have special powers over the living ones.

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

There are passages in the Qur» an which suggest that those who fall away will not be given another chance, but then the Epistle to the Hebrews warns that «It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace» (Hebrews 6, 4 - 6).

/ nite wisdom after choosing my people decided to send us all straight to he.ll because the one chance we had to switch over was his son who clearly didn't have the same ora.tory powers as his father because he couldn't convince every one.

(J.W.C. Ward, A History of the early Church, p. 99) In this period the Church not only grew numerically, but also strengthened itself in its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the Church and who really became the emperor of the Church.

It suggests, I believe, that within the common tradition, authority is understood as a way of making power responsible to a standard that is shared both by one who has authority and by those over whom it is exercised.

Out of the ruins, once more, God would raise up those who should truly serve and obey him; and this divine Rule was to be inaugurated — so Mark and his fellow Christians believed — when the Son of Man, who was identical with Jesus crucified, raised from the dead, and exalted to heaven, should return on the clouds to hold the Last Judgment, when he should come «in power» with the angels of God to reign with his elect over a renewed earth.

Anyone who uses religion or ethnic cleansing as an excuse to have power and dominion over thier fellow man like Iran, Pakistan, and the Sudan does internally and through importing terror through the likes of aL - Qaeda, Hezbollah or the Janjaweed.

Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.