It means how much you sully yourself by empowering ugly regimes in the name of common struggle, how much you compromise your freedom in the name of security, how much you undermine public trust through lies and patriotic-sounding cant.
Leaders or pioneers are empowered to act in the name of others from this perspective (while they dominate others from a perspective of power over, see below).
"The advent of a candidate who preaches hatred, who normalizes violence and who preaches gun use leaves people feeling empowered to be violent in the name of their individual beliefs," said Natalia Aguiar, a political scientist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Cortés landed in Mexico and then freed himself from Velázquez's overlordship by founding the city of Veracruz and establishing a town council (cabildo) that in turn empowered him to conquer Mexico in the name of Charles I of Spain.
For example, in the name of empowering the workers, we actually reinforce the hierarchy.
Since Reagan's presidency, one can detect that dismantling government in the name of empowering individuals didn't create a new national interest.
Another story in the Times illustrates the chaos this has unleashed upon students and families in Detroit in the name of "empowering" them with choice.
The scholars, it appears, would rather lose the chance for thousands of children to learn that the two greatest epics of Indian civilization were written by people born into lower-caste all in the name of empowering them.
Conservatives talk about the dignity of work; when they call for gutting the social safety net and workplace safety rules, they do it in the name of empowering more people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and achieve economic independence.
But that person needs to be fully empowered to compel change across the organization in the name of the CEO.
Opponents of the health care law say a decision sustaining it would empower Congress to pass laws concerning essentially every aspect of American life in the name of regulating commerce.
