Sentence examples for command over resources from inspiring English sources

Companies pose a problem for democracy by their very existence, for through their command over resources, persuasive power and many legal privileges (such as the limited liability that is the basis of joint-stock companies), they unavoidably carry much more political weight than do individual citizens.

Housing tenure may have psychosocial impacts on health; owning one's one home may confer greater feelings of security or prestige than social or private renting, and is often used as an indicator of greater long-term command over resources.

Economists generally favor a definition of income that is broader than adjusted gross income and reflects an individual's full command over economic resources.

An alternative argument to this is that education acts as a proxy for command over such resources as food [ 10].

In the context of southern and eastern Africa, women who have studied beyond primary education tend to have increased command over household resources, enabling them to make significant contributions towards the promotion of their children's nutrition and health status.

On the other hand, wealth is argued to reflect older peoples' life-time cumulative social status and indicates command over material resources better than any other measure of socioeconomic status in later life [ 18, 19].

Likewise, greater gender equality in terms of access to education and command over economic resources also means that females in Singapore are in a more privileged position to be able to afford and utilize these healthcare services relative to lower income countries whereby gender disparity may limit the autonomy of women in seeking out these services [ 31].

In December, Gazprom wrested a majority stake from Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi for $7.45 billion in a deal that consolidated the Russian state's command over its energy resources.

The Tempest demonstrates the author to be a master of both comedy and tragedy, with a full command over "all the resources of passion, of wit, of thought, of observation".

This, we believe, is the ultimate narrative foundation, in that stories are told by people, and the people telling the stories at Gäwa are the Warramiri who have total command over the digital resource that is the Warramiri website.

While this paper underlines the importance of personal goals for care, this paper is not an argument for a unilateral patient command over healthcare decisions and resources.