Sentences with phrase «with vast power»

The present fearful state of the world is a result of combining the human tendency to strive for autonomy with the vast powers now at man's disposal through science and technology.

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Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

A Being was taking form in the totality of space; a Being with the attractive power of a soul, palpable like a body, vast as the sky; a Being which mingled with things yet remained distinct from them; a Being of a higher order than the substance of things with which it was adorned, yet taking shape within them.

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.»

We are now confronted with a form of capitalism which concentrates economic power in vast, impersonal institutions, with the result that decisions vitally affecting the livelihood of average citizens are made in places far removed from their capacity to have any influence at all.

He describes with great accuracy the necessities of Christian existence in which love is the meaning of all knowledge and action, but in which man must cope with vast and threatening powers and institutions which are ruled by the distorted and misdirected passions of the corrupt human spirit.

But what struck me with particular power as I surveyed the Catholic media was that the vast, vast majority of Catholics reported Hitchens» disease and then, with transparent sincerity, urged people to pray for him.

A vast body of work has emerged from women theologians, often though not always termed «feminist» thinkers, and reaching far beyond the specific focus of this chapter on supplanting male - dominated understandings of God with more fecund investigations into the divine mystery of power and love.

Not only has he been able to reach with his message many in the Praetorian guard and in that vast establishment of slaves, freedmen, and persons of every station known as the household of Caesar, but the very fact that he is in prison for his faith has given what little preaching he can still do added power, and inspired other Christians to preach more earnestly than ever.

All of this gave the Templars vast wealth and power; it had nothing to do with Mary Magdalene!

The power of modern weapons to incinerate vast civilian populations with no available civil defense must now be reckoned with.

Seen in a wider perspective, the threat of destruction has always been present in a world containing a vast multiplicity of free centers of power potentially in conflict with one another.

Opus Dei is, they say, a secretive, cult - like organization that is running a vast international conspiracy with unlimited funding and tentacles reaching into the most unlikely centers of power.

That is now a distant memory as Paddy power's Games site features a superb platform for gaming, with a user - friendly website offering a vast selection of tp quality casino, instant and jackpot games.

By: Heather Somaini There are tons of challenges with twins that suck up vast amounts of brain power as a new mom.

The mayor «s forces handed Kelly «s vast powers over the park district, with its $ 230 million budget and 5,000 full - time and part - time jobs, to Jesse Madison, the city «s consumer services commissioner.

It may surprise you, but for the vast majority of people opposed to abortion, that opposition has nothing to do with «wanting power over a woman's body».

The vast majority of people who use airguns do so lawfully and there are already sufficient powers available to deal with the small minority who break the law.

Indeed, the tweet to which Walker responded was, itself, misogynistic — but we would ask the Women's Equality Party to take into account the vast power inequality in this exchange and the fact that Walker felt it appropriate to share her «sex bot» comment with 33,000 followers.

It sparked an extraordinary flurry of panicked activity from Westminster, with promises of vast new powers for Scotland.

As Commander - in - Chief of our nation, a vast amount of power resides with you to address the relief and rebuilding of these regions which will need years of diligent federal assistance and oversight.»

in the 50s the USA and the USSR were the only global powers, China is a great nation with vast resources but in the 50s they didn't had the capacity the USA had.

The two trials laid bare many of the secrets the commission might have uncovered — with testimony about the vast, almost unilateral power exercised by legislative leaders, the way powerful real estate interests dole out campaign contributions, legal referrals and jobs to line politicians» pockets and maintain access, and how money is hidden by evading disclosure laws and funneling it through relatives, law firms and title fees.

With the vast majority of the NIAF project's budget being spent on international consultants, not on new power stations or connections to link poor communities to the grid, it's difficult to imagine a more disastrous use of aid money.

A key pillar of this vision is to leverage on Information Communication technology (ICT), to take advantage of the vast brain power Ghanaians have been endowed with to make a difference in the lives of the ordinary Ghanaian.

It works with anyone wanting vast data processing power.

New York voters, staring at a long ballot filled with a vast array of political parties, have no clue that some of these parties stand for nothing other than the aggrandizement of political power.

The vast network of power lines delivering the juice may be interconnected, but pushing electricity all the way from one coast to the other is unthinkable with the present technology.

Mexico is a vast country with scattered load centers, and renewable energy could help deliver power to far - flung regions from Baja to Yucatán.

This raises the prospect of employing machine learning in science in a collaborative fashion, combining the power of machines to distil information from vast data sets with human creativity and background knowledge.

The state hosts vast photovoltaic arrays in the desert as well as the nation's first commercial power plant with the technology to use sunshine at night — by storing daytime heat in molten salts.

And ever since 1984, vast arrays of curved mirrors have been concentrating the sun's rays on pipelines filled with synthetic oil at the Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) power plant in California's Mojave Desert.

With vast amounts of computing power comes the opportunity to turn the work of many amateur birders into a nuanced portrait of how species migrate.

Quantum computing relies on the laws of quantum mechanics to process vast amounts of information and calculations simultaneously, with far more power than current computers.

With RCI's vast knowledge of I&C systems for nuclear power plants, they also provide expertise in the areas of neutron monitoring, in - core instrumentation, and process sensors for monitoring the safety critical aspects of the NuScale Power Module (power plants, they also provide expertise in the areas of neutron monitoring, in - core instrumentation, and process sensors for monitoring the safety critical aspects of the NuScale Power Module (Power Module (NPM).

Despite the vast gulf of space separating telescope from would - be-probe, Breakthrough Listen stated in a press release that the GBT would be able to detect a signal from an omnidirectional transmitter with the power of a cellphone less than a minute after it left its source.

The focus of this book is on free weight exercises... the vast majority can be done with just barbells, dumbbells, a power rack, and a bench.

It's a room - escape game; you choose your room, each has a different scenario, and you get an hour to work with your teammates to defeat a mysterious evil force, travel back to Ancient China and find a hidden treasure, or work with an immortal alchemist to discover a vast and ancient power.

From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

With a vast portion of collectables, upgrades and power - ups to chase after, this game will easily have you coming back for that proverbial one last attempt, time and time again.

Even with dwindling membership, the NEA is a formidable opponent that will do whatever it can to maintain its vast and destructive power.

Too few students would have the opportunity to receive an education with the power to help them realize their vast potential.

It will easily play the hooligan, as you'd expect from a car with vast amounts of power and torque, but driving it quickly is just as satisfying.

The drivetrain delivers surreal performance and a vast power band when let loose completely, as the chassis retains the neutral - to - oversteery balance while the Dynamic ESC mode tidies up your excesses with polite unobtrusiveness.

But with a vast majority of premium SUV buyers used to stopping at the black pump, does a petrol powered Q5 do enough to tempt buyers back towards unleaded?

By offering a car with great fuel economy, vast interior space for its size, good power and a nice array of features, Volkswagen has refined the 2016 Jetta SEL to a point where it's one of the best small cars on the market.

With extra power over the base V6 and offering as standard some desirable sporty features picked from the vast options list including adaptive air suspension, sport exhaust and bigger brakes, the GTS is a worthy addition to the Macan range.

Across the range there are CO2 improvements of between 1.5 and 18 per cent, despite the vast majority of models gaining power upgrades, and the firm has slipped in a new 148bhp 1.4 - litre petrol with cylinder - on - demand technology.