Sentences with phrase «whose wealth and power»

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.

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Now, morale has sunk so low that some employees refer to Ms. Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, as «Evita» — an allusion to Eva Peron, the former first lady of Argentina whose outsize ego and climb to power and wealth were chronicled in the musical of that name.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

A major difference is that in America there were scores of television evangelists and hundreds of radio preachers on the air, day and night, preaching a bogus religion whose story is a wild tale of the end of the world, and whose values closely resemble the values and worldview of secular America — the values of winning, of wealth, of power, and of being Number One.

But what else should we expect from an educational system whose primary social function is to monitor competition over the scarce resources of wealth and power?

But the Tories are ruthless for their class and protecting wealth and power instills discipline amongst those who legally facilitate the legal nicking of the surplus labour of working people whose labour really creates the wealth and makes society work.

Republicans represent those whose only goal is to retain power and wealth and prevent others from usurping it.

The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.

These are the Social Darwinists (sometimes called Social Positivists) whose thinking stood behind the great economic expansion, was challenged by a global recession, and ultimately fell out of favor in the United States when the princely accumulation of wealth and power by a generation of Robber Barons was recognized as jarringly undemocratic.

A sad and beautiful book, sometimes touched with magic and mysticism, it is a must - read for anyone interested in the history of the slave trade and the people whose lives were altered by the global fight for power, wealth and, ultimately, survival.

Each blind eye turned and each handshake extended to the killers at PETA strengthens PETA's ability to not only continue harming animals with impunity, but to use their increasing influence, power, and wealth to undermine the efforts of those laboring to protect the lives of community cats, pit bull dogs, and shelter animals whose killing PETA publicly champions to the American public and our elected officials.

Just as white European figures are understood as representations of religious devotion, motherhood, power, wealth, and love, rather than as «white,» the artist presents figures whose beautiful and precisely rendered attributes, emotional bearing, inter-relationships, and geographically specific contexts seek to transcend generalizing categories and marginalizing reactions.

The only real obstacle is the entrenched wealth and political power of those whose continued wealth and power depend on maintaining the status quo.