Consumers would be shielded from many forms of abusive and predatory lending, and investors could be empowered to influence corporate boards that have long been impervious to shareholder concerns.
Users should be empowered to influence the service, which will give flexibility to the system and foster bottom-up development.
The emergence of the student-consumer tends to be presented in the media, and in government policy, as a positive and inevitable development that casts students as empowered to influence their university experience (Williams, 2011).
He told the crowd that Hungarians should not only block the internet levy, but also feel empowered to influence the other policies of the government, "from whom we have no idea what to expect from week to week".
The principle of universal coverage – basic education and health services for all – can only be achieved if the socially excluded are enabled and empowered to influence the design and quality of social services, to claim their right to these services, and to hold service providers accountable for their delivery.
It achieves the goal of empowering parents to influence the governance and direction of public schools in the state.
Human rights serve the purpose of empowering people to influence the decisions that affect them, not empowering human rights experts to decide what is best and what is worst.
That is A leads to B, leads to C. Their expanded vision allows them to design and successfully implement action plans that move in multiple directions at the same time empowering innovation and influence far more quickly than their logical counterparts.
And she goes on to write of Constance, "I am convinced that this coincidence of journey and pregnancy was doubly empowering to her, influencing the way in which she was to act in the future".
The seemingly positive values of empowering oneself and influencing the world — qualities that are often touted at universities — contradict the values of students with working-class backgrounds, who may have been raised to prize interdependent traits such as responding to others' needs and being part of a community, a new study suggests.
