Sentences with phrase «with wealth and power»

This is because it would be clear that the lives and welfare of people in Africa and elsewhere in the third world are completely unimportant to those with wealth and power.

The reckless way a few people with wealth and power maintain a «golden» silence, one that protects their greed, gluttony and hoarding, is dangerous and can not longer be endured because a good enough future for our children and coming generations is being mortgaged and threatened by these leading elders in my not - so - great generation.

Because when I see the storms that we're all heading into, the scarcity and instability and violence, and I see what those with wealth and power are prepared to do to hold onto that wealth and power — when I see my country scapegoating entire classes of people and closing its doors to desperate refugees — I know it matters all the more what kind of a government, what kind of a democracy, what kind of a society we have, what kind of a people we will be, as we head into that future.

Instead they are working with big industry to ensure that those with the wealth and power, particularly the fossil fuel companies, can continue to cling on at the top at the expense of all other living things on our planet.

In Taylor's earlier work, marquetry, a medium typically associated with wealth and power, is used to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life.

By working in the medium of marquetry, typically associated with wealth and power, to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness in subject matter.

[This] is not unfamiliar in a world filled with our own corporate skyscrapers and penthouse apartment buildings (from which these images of verticality are derived) where those with wealth and power dictate the earth and its conditions to those living in small houses, in cramped apartment complexes, and on the street.

The themes explored, mainly the hardships that come with wealth and power, are rarely given spark.

He realizes they are too preoccupied with wealth and power and other «serious matters,» and they miss the important things in life: beauty, friendship, self - discovery, imagination, open - mindedness, and love.

The ruling was a step backward, one more reason to be cynical about a system that always seems to find a loophole for insiders with wealth and power.

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«The unwritten rule no one told Ms. White when she embarked on a relationship with Mr. Kardashian is: the entire family takes it personally if you leave and will come after you, using their fame, wealth and power to take you down,» the complaint further states.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

In the episode, Oliver discussed the power of the Trump name and how it's often associated with wealth and success.

On top of all that, there's the unavoidable resentment that comes with disparities in wealth and power.

Officials in Washington, who have been pressing Mr. Samper to aggressively pursue Mr. Rodriguez Orejuela and the other Cali drug leaders as they have flaunted their power and wealth for years with little official interference, praised the capture.

I believe you think we are heading for a long period of low returns, but still, with such a long investment horizon ahead of you, don't you think it could make sense to be more exposed to public equities, maybe in passive index funds, and trust the long term wealth building power of that asset class without so much attention to continuous portfolio rebalancing trying to anticipate short term returns?

Now it seems it is his turn to wreak havoc on the cozy networks of power and wealth that have established themselves in the era of «socialism with Chinese characteristics».

Another example is when True Wealth Ventures won a Profiles in Power award, UnaliWear surprised me with a plaque featuring the award and a party in the office featuring Klondike bars.

Where great wealth and power are at stake markets go out the window and are replaced with the competition of wealth and power against wealth and power between the elites for those things they consider of greater inportence to themselves

Crude demand sure to fall with low industry growth, people getting poorer (as a result of concentration of wealth in few hands) and increasing CNG and electric powered cars.

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That cold heartedness leaves a desert of the soul... ripe for the picking of those with power and wealth.

They could, however, claim solidarity with ancient Christians who rejected worldly wealth and 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.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

He is a king with all of his wealth and power and friends, but he can not even get his own wife to obey him!

The National Rifle Association could use its tremendous wealth and power to promote realistic laws that all citizens, including sportsmen and those genuinely needing protection, could live with in much greater safety.

We Presbyterians, who share so much — a confession of faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor with each other, in love, for justice and truth.

Economic globalization has created class societies with differences in wealth and power as great as those against which Marx protested.

This gives great power and wealth to the private banks and burdens the government and the population as a whole with large interest payment.

For millennia political power has enabled its possessors to gain wealth and share it with those favored by them, and wealth has given its possessors political power.

Tom Peterson, before reverting to Catholicism and founding Catholics Come Home, found that without realising it, he had become addicted to the business power, wealth and control that came with being a successful executive.

Yet the text simultaneously distances itself from any easy or absolute identification of blessing with earthly wealth and human striving for self - worth and power.

Many doubt that any controls can be implemented to blunt the power and influence exercised by people with wealth.

Supposedly the People's Republic, but obviously an oligarchy and we have business practice that basically would rather share wealth and power with Communist China than with the American middle class.

The church went along with the change very un Christ like, protecting power and wealth is what religions are all about, the god is love and salvation is part of the larger scam.

Three times it is said that the kings of the earth commit fornication with the great harlot, the city of greed and lust (17:2; 18:3, 9), But in the end the kings of the earth bring their glory, their wealth and power, into the holy city.

If material wealth and power are of no importance because your values are placed on the afterlife and with your imagary savior then why the fuc.k would anyone want you, a person with a literal death wish, as president?

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

Indeed, Hartshorne's catalogue of ills that afflict those who have lost faith in nature and God as friends is a frightful list: «men are likely to grow bitter, or depressed and fearful, or genially cynical and selfish, or mad with megalomaniac ambition, or slavishly worshipful of power or wealth — or just dull and apathetic and unimaginative, like a number of agnostics I have known.

My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne and Yeezus represented a hard thematic turn: They deal with the opulence of celebrity culture and the intoxicating power of wealth and fame — as well as, ultimately, all of the inner darkness they can bring forth.

Moreover, despite its wealth and power, the United States alone can not save the world, even if it set out to do so with the purest of motives.

Those with great wealth and power keep the cards stacked in their favor.

As Shi'as tell it, by 656, when Uthman died and Muslim rule extended into eastern Iran, Armenia, Syria and Egypt, upper - class Muslims had become obsessed with power and wealth.

It was the exhilaration of the power and the wealth made available and of the doors opened by the machine which accounted in part for that abounding optimism of the nineteenth century with which the spread of Christianity was so closely associated.

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

Some of the areas to be covered will include economic realities in the global village, capitalism and the distribution of wealth, an examination of the multinational corporation, a case study of neocolonialism, power realities with a developing country, educational realities in the third world, a comparison of values — particularly East Africa and North America.

The growing preoccupation with heresy in the thirteenth century, as became apparent at the Lateran Council, seems to have been partly due to the scandals that accompanied the wealth and political power of the medieval papacy.

According to Luke 4:43, it was his earthly task to proclaim the Good News of the kingdom; for his disciples he became the presence of the kingdom with all its wealth of gifts and powers.15