Sentences with phrase «with power over»

It's always nice to let people with power over promotions and raises know when their employees are performing well.

Of course, I float this idea with the full knowledge that those of us who read Slaw likely exist in a economic world where the fear is that a failure to respond early and always will mean the loss of money or the approval of someone with power over money.

We will also explore civil rights litigation on behalf of those who have been sexually harassed by property managers, landlords, maintenance workers, housing authority officials, or others with power over access to housing, with a focus on the role that civil legal services attorneys have played — or can play — in these efforts.

I advised the students to remember one thing when writing any document for a professional purpose: A busy person with power over you will read it.

Delsin Rowe, a Native American street artist with power over smoke and fire, should be able to use the train tracks and space needle to advantage.

Maybe it's because their life is far removed, or maybe because it triggers something powerful that makes them just as mad as it makes me introspective (the intrusion of technology, over commercialization, young people with power over older people at work, etc..)

Imbued with power over The Ash — nanites which permeate the atmosphere — The Harbinger manifests a legion of war machines known as golems which he commands.

There is no evidence in all history, as far as I know, of any group with power over thought that exercised that power benignly.

A spokesman for the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state monitoring board with power over county finances, declined to comment.

And this scares you more than it would if the person with the power over extinction was someone who believed that human life was an accident representible by the 0.000000000000000000000000001 % chance that some chemicals could combine in just the right way, at just the right time, with just the right frequency to eventually give rise to sentience.

Such an event witnesses to the existence of a supreme being with power over this visible world.

Not impossible, but certainly it is easier with the help of something with power over you.

God remains «all - powerful, with power over everything that He actually wills or could will,» 23 and Case - Winters [91] notes that, for Barth, power «is still being conceived as the ability to dominate and control.»

At the time a lot of people (especially those with power over the Hebrews) were worshiping the world — the moon, the sea, the sky: that story points to who should be worshiped — the Creator of those things.

«Facebook has taken a conciliatory tone in terms of coming to terms with its power over advertising and how people interact and engage with each other,» said Debra Williamson, an analyst with research firm eMarketer.

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»

Surprisingly, IBB appears very radical in his «restructuring»: a Federal Government with powers over just foreign policy, defence, and the economy, eerily close to the confederal arrangement the Emeka Ojukwu - led Eastern Region called for in 1967.

From May, Liverpool City Region will have a new mayor with powers over transport, planning and skills.

Finney, who has been in remission from cancer of the prostate for several years, will play a Foreign Office mandarin with powers over the Secret Intelligence Service, described to me as a reasonably big role and full of class.

Effectively, with powers over subject matter such as property and civil rights in the Province, all matters of a local and private nature, and ownership and development of all natural resources, there is no area of the environment which the Provinces can not regulate inside their boundaries.

Not exact matches

According to a Google spokesperson, the company strongly discourages employees from involving themselves in relationships with colleagues that they manage or report to, or if there is any question whether one individual has power over the other.

He thinks it unlikely the influence and power Thiel has accrued over time, becoming «one of those 800 pound gorillas in the room,» will be damaged in a lasting way by the investor's relationship with Trump.

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

Generally, an entrepreneur can not own 50 percent or more of the business that his or her IRA is invested in, unless the company has a minority shareholder with complete veto power over all transactions — but in some cases, even that won't be allowed.

It's a truly neutral network in that they hydro companies that supply people with power don't care about and have no say over how it is used.

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.

Modern internet - connected devices like your smartphone or computer sync up with other clocks over the web, whereas standalone devices like digital watches or many battery - powered alarm clocks use a crystal oscillator.

Proposed board reforms to Canada's deposit - taking institutions and insurance companies under the new guidelines include: appointing directors with relevant financial services experience; more board control over enterprise risk; enhanced director training, self - assessment and external reviews; and certain powers that allow boards to better direct and monitor management.

Jassy envisioned that Amazon could share its know - how and infrastructure with other businesses over the web, managing computing power for them so they could keep costs down — a concept now known as a «public cloud» model.

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One of the things the FCC gained with its newfound power was, in effect, authority over ISPs» privacy policies.

Facebook decided to let its own advertisers harness the power of these data brokers with its Partner Categories over on its ad platform.

It cost 5 million euros ($ 5232000) to build, and the road, with its 30,000 square feet of solar panels, is being tested over a two - year trial period to see if it can actually create enough energy to power the village's street lights.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

In his 2014 letter to shareholders, he said people should «invest with a multi-decade horizon... Their focus should remain fixed on attaining significant gains in purchasing power over their investing lifetime.»

Some durability issues over time — especially with the Velcro, can be difficult to click on your phone's power and volume buttons while in the case, a few reviewers experienced some arm band slippage

The handout came with strings attached: Salus had to sign off if RadioShack wanted to close more than 200 stores a year — essentially giving the firm power over one of the company's only ways to raise cash.

That's the case with controversy over pay packages at provincially regulated Nova Scotia Power.

«It's not about power over, it's about power with.

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With the right policies, these nations are likely to blow away expectations over time and become leading powers in their regions.

We found some good stocks, and we stuck through them through some tough times and figured out which ones were going to carry the water for us over the years,» the fund's portfolio manager, Steven Wymer, said in an interview with «Power Lunch» on Wednesday.

On a winding path in Watopia — a virtual world named after the term «watt» in cycling that has to do with your power output as you pedal — I looked over and noticed an active volcano.

Its ArcAid basketball training system detects a shot's power, direction and height, comparing that data with the ideal trajectory and tracking improvement over time.

According to Cambridge, Its ArcAid basketball training system detects a shot's power, direction and height, comparing that data with the ideal trajectory and tracking improvement over time.

In a move worthy of Michael Corleone of The Godfather movie fame, the 32 - year old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, consolidated his power, over the weekend, by trotting a tried - and - true method of vanquishing political rivals in a monarchy: charge them with corruption.

The 43 - member Board of Governors is the seat of power at AMPAS, with ultimate authority over corporate management, control and general policies, including Oscar rules and the invitation of new members.

'' [They're] addicted to that sense of power, that rush of being able to pull one over on people and get away with it,» Konnikova explained.