Sentences with phrase «wielding power over others»

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

Once you start believing that you, personally, are chosen by God to wield power over others, your ego has gone way out of control and you have actually become dangerous to human freedom and common wisdom.

Is Moore suggesting that you must be somewhat unbalanced in order to wield power over others or that wielding that power inevitably makes you unbalanced?

Not exact matches

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

Leadership amongst other mammalian species tends to be more concentrated, with leaders that wield more power over the group.

But the true revelation of Candyland is Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), a 76 - year - old house slave who has served generations of Candies, and who has become institutionalized by time, his codependent relationship with his master, and the small margin of power he wields with perverse pleasure over the other slaves.

Beneath these responses, however, lurks an understanding that this gesture disguises violence as benevolence and suggests a symmetry between the power that humans wield over other life forms and the power they wield over one another.

Remember the primary parent account is tied to you, the administrator, and as such, you wield tremendous power over what other users can do on their computers.