Suarez's position may be extreme, and he himself allows that Aquinas's distinctions may be heuristically useful, but his criticisms of the proliferation of distinct powers in the soul and his drive to unify the account of the soul on the basis of its "intertwining" powers struck a chord with many.
In America, where we still jones for innocence and ruin, the intertwining of power and art hasn't generally been a preoccupation of our literature — what a photograph of a meadow might have to do with Guantánamo, whether a play about marriage is connected to the doings of the secretary of state.
It was no accident that protesters in the cities of Dara'a and Latakia went after the property of this feared and hated aristocracy, most notably that of President Bashar al-Assad's cousin Rami Makhlouf, a businessman who controls the country's cellphone network and, more than anyone else, represents the intertwining of power and wealth in Syria.
Moyers goes on to say that "The intimate relationship intertwining "mainstream media with power, corporate power, government power... is something that, without the antidote of independent reporting and analysis... we would be in a dark, dark pit with no light shining on us".
But as an assertion of commitment to values other than money-making, they will make an impression not just on Hong Kong but on China, where the intertwining of political power and money-making is germinating a new radicalism.
Our collective fate likely hangs from the cliff by three intertwining ropes: systems, power, and story.
Bolingbroke is largely forgotten today, but his skepticism about the ways that money and power intertwine went on to influence the American Revolution and practically every populist movement in our nation's history.
Zoos thrive on confrontations between the human observer and the nonhuman wilds of nature; they rely on the sense of an uneasy relationship in which threat and power intertwine.
The fictitious Western representations and negative assumptions are constituted by the ongoing conflict situation and, in their turn, construe the reality of a newly emerging national identity, which is highly contested in a dialogical exchange of multiple discourses that are closely intertwined with the power structures that constrain and mould them.
Saints & Sinners centers around the pursuit of power, intertwined with greed, deception, corruption, and murder - all set against the backdrop of a large southern church.
