Sentence examples similar to power for action from inspiring English sources

As the former Secretary of the California EPA, and in my current role as the President of Seventh Generation Advisors and Strategic Advisor to the R20 Regions of Climate Action, I have long been an advocate for the power of action at the state and local level in the fight to curb climate change.

However, whether enough power for dynamo action can be generated with this scenario still needs to be tested.

The healing power of action.

But Vaidya says empowerment is neutral — individuals can use that power for negative actions.

(For convenience I will refer to that power as "the power for self-initiated action").

Since God gave them both wills, however, they had the power for self-initiated action.

Any being that has freedom of choice, therefore, will thereby have the power for self-initiated action.

This power is a power for a specific action, namely, my striking you in a particular way at this particular time.

So they would not have had the power for self-initiated action, which means that they would not have had free choice.

The first human beings and the rebel angels sinned through an exercise of their power for self-initiated action, and so it is appropriate to say that they sinned through free choice.

(Whether fallen human beings also retain the power for self-initiated action apart from divine grace is a tricky question, and one I do not propose to answer here).