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The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.
Anand Mahindra
India
Constantly
Rural
Threatened
Perceived
Empowerment
Impotence
Authority
Lack
Being
Story
There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
Andrew Greeley
People
Church
Sex
Research
Changed
Back
Proportion
Since
Always
Leave
Doing
Issues
Been
Authority
Certain
Who
Early
Started
To think that a Catholic bishop must answer to a civil authority over matters of faith is abominable. It is abhorrent to me, to other Catholics, and to every member of every faith community.
Andrew Scheer
Faith
Me
Matters
Community
Every
Think
Other
Bishop
Member
Must
Abhorrent
Civil
Over
Catholic
Catholics
Answer
Authority
America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
Anohni
Power
Idea
Abuse
Real
America
Authority
Which
Extent
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
Anthony Bourdain
Business
World
Whatever
Other
Kicked
Alive
Out
Ability
Able
Weight
Journeyman
Sheer
Around
Chef
Came
Years
End
Authority
Form
Sentence
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
Anthony Jeselnik
Problems
Everything
Having
Driving
Driving Force
Liking
Force
Doing
Been
Years
Authority
Behind
A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Man
White
Admit
Someone
Colour
Wrong
Authority
Want
Ever
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Antony Jay
Matter
Responsibility
Device
Referring
Authority
Committee
Decisions
In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
Arcadi Gaydamak
Organization
Country
Diamond
Market
Later
Responsible
Raw
Oversee
Authority
Official
Controlled
Regime
Appointed
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
Aristide Briand
Aims
Latter
Weakening
Must
Only
Tend
League
Authority
Closely
Nations
Formula
Far
Means
Connected
European
Connection
Search
Cooperation
Strengthen
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Relationship
People
World
Somebody
Power
Percent
Over
How
Authority
Behave
Them
Watch
Need
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
Arthur Keith
Balance
Problem
Liberty
Ancient
Proper
Individual
Individual Liberty
Between
Very
Authority
Central
Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.
Asma Jahangir
Injustice
Few
Holding
Every
Must
Blasphemy
Support
Name
Up
Person
Authority
Stood
Being
Against
Who
Position
If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
Asma Jahangir
You
Respect
People
Moral Authority
Believe
Rule
Moral
Goose
Authority
Then
Really
Your
Cooked
MPs are members in Delhi Development Authority. They can improve land allotment in schools, colleges, hospitals. MPs head the district-wise committee on monitoring how government bodies function. So, incrementally, MPs on their own can improve the situation.
Atishi
Government
Own
Situation
Members
Colleges
Delhi
Hospitals
Head
Development
Schools
How
Improve
Authority
Committee
Land
Bodies
Function
Monitoring
Israel's highest aspiration may be to be a light among the nations, but it is also a normal nation, where regular people want to go about their business without a religious authority having a say.
Bari Weiss
Business
People
Light
Nation
Say
Religious
About
Having
Highest
Also
Without
Israel
Go
Normal
Authority
May
Nations
Where
Want
Regular
Regular People
Aspiration
Among
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Barton Gellman
Broken
Privacy
Legal
Year
National
Congress
Other
Broad
Rules
Security
Thousands
Since
New
Powers
Documents
Audit
According
Times
Authority
National Security
Agency
Granted
Internal
Each
Each Year
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.
Ben Shapiro
History
President
President Obama
Obama
He
Mere
Perhaps
Most
Ultimate
According
American
Authority
American History
Barack
Barack Obama
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin Tucker
Socialism
Liberty
Thought
Other
State
Anarchism
Respectively
Unreservedly
Names
Schools
Principles
Referred
Authority
Represent
Which
Them
Fully
Two
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.
Benjamin Wittes
Strong
More
Trump
Authority
Might
Why
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.
Benjamin Wittes
Great
You
Decency
Believe
Virtue
Presidential
Range
Civic
Individual
Weight
Puts
Scope
Lot
Office
Authority
Holds
Who
The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.
Benjamin Wittes
Government
President
Criminal
Constitutional
Pursued
Investigations
Counterintelligence
Supposed
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Conduct
Surveillance
Authority
Use
Standard
Reason
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Bill Forsyth
Business
People
Purely
Rational
Emotional
Instead
Like
Making
Very
Authority
Movie
Movie Business
Decisions
Interesting
Much
Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
Blake Farenthold
Government
Money
Taxpayer
Congress
Other
Spent
Constitutional
Investigate
Over
Know
How
Oversight
Conduct
Authority
Being
Agencies
Right
As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.
Bob McNair
Respect
Matter
Three
Beginning
Our
Abuse
Involved
Policy
Said
Been
Domestic
Authority
Lack
Show
Team
Things
Player
Draft
Violence
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
Boris Johnson
Style
Schwarzenegger
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Friends
Than
Authority
Rhetorical
Low
Skills
Speaking
Less
Moment
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