With such men in charge — men who wield their authority as an instrument of exclusion — I cannot return to the generous mystery of my boyhood faith.
With such men in charge men who wield their authority as an instrument of exclusion—I cannot return to the generous mystery of my boyhood faith.
Since President George Washington issued the first presidential pardon in 1794 to leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion, subsequent presidents liberally wielded their authority to grant executive clemency and commutation of sentences.
"It is not the authorities wielding their power who are the biggest threat anymore," Mr. Susanto said.
These figures have wielded their spiritual authority to re-establish the "moral limits of lethal violence," thereby maintaining two enclaves of relative security for their followers.
In Burma, monks wielded their moral authority to challenge the military junta and argue for democracy in the Saffron Revolution of 2007.
As the world's great religious traditions come to honor and celebrate evidence as divine guidance, they will begin to wield their moral authority in ways that assist, rather than resist, the passage of our species out of the desert of destructive and unsustainable adolescence.
"Enslaved woodcutters had the option of wielding their machetes against a despised authority or just slipping away into the surrounding forest," the historian Jennifer L. Anderson writes in a new book, "Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America" (Harvard University Press).
Garza said that principals are given authority to wield their own budgets as they see fit.
The ultimate haves -- not merely the 1percentt, but the.1percentt -- have grown so powerful that they threaten to capture the organs of government, wielding authority in pursuit of their own financial interests, at the expense of opportunities for us non-billionaires.
Others, though, worry about political appointees wielding regulatory authority.
