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And like any new technology, it's really in humanity's hands to wield it for the betterment of mankind or not.
That's lifetimes of women dealing with men who assume they know better for us than we know for ourselves, being the property of husbands, landowners, and having old, white men tell us the fate of our lady parts; lifetimes of having our bodies used for love and objects of desire, instead of bodies that we get to wield and use as we choose; lifetimes of knowing that whether we play by their rules or not, we still have to tolerate harassment, assault and even worse; lifetimes of our bodies being used as property that can be hit and hurt, manipulated and moved and like objects that are not deserving of respect; lifetimes of not being able to express the anger of our bodies.
So I had to wield my paralyzed arm like a stump and cover the numbers as I went along and pushed them, so that as I would come back to normal reality, I'd be able to tell, "Yes, I've already dialed that number."
Well, inspired by the sentences, I decided to wield the paintbrush.
Even the ancestors of primates used to wield these impressive appendages, until their claws evolved into nails.
And when our ancestors moved down from the trees, this flexible grasp enabled them to create and wield complex tools.
Forty years later, this group, more than most, are well aware of the destructive power that our species can wield over our environment.
But when we chose to wield our swords and shields to battle bad systems, that's when we saw change.
Then there's the suspension of disbelief required when all the characters are seemingly trapped in the wax museum (although Inspector O'Matthews manages to wield his fat wet rear end inside through a window).
Cinema was one of his biggest passions (he penned a vast worldwide dictionary of films) and so he was bound to wield a camera at least one time in his life.
Possibly because he didn't have to wield a sword or be in a western.
The actors are good, the plot is good, dialogue quite sweet and Bruce Campbell gets to wield an axe.
Negaduck is the only Disney villain (or character, for that matter) to ever wield a chainsaw.
So the FPC would wield instruments such as capital ratios or loan-to-value ratios to manage liquidity, and placing two instruments for two targets – liquidity and inflation – within the BOE would ensure coordination.
But fear is a powerful weapon, and Sarkozy, like Trump, is eager to wield it.
Behind closed doors, governments wield financial incentives and regulatory powers to mute media criticism and twist editorial content in their favor.
Like many observers around the world since the Brexit vote, the Kremlin does not look at the UK and see a country able to wield anything approaching global influence.
But the implications of allowing a few global corporations to wield such vast market power extend further.
But it also faced opposition from a variety of other, far less democratically minded, forces, including holdovers from Hosni Mubarak’s regime, who continue to wield influence in official institutions.
The World’s Reluctant Central BankerNEW YORK – This is supposed to be the era of powerful central banks, ready to wield their firepower worldwide.
In particular, they object to the plan’s proposal to give increased powers and responsibilities to the Secretary General, whose selection is effectively in the hands of the Security Council’s five permanent members, which wield veto power.
But the manipulation of public opinion is a powerful weapon in any democracy, and it is a weapon that Trump, like Berlusconi, knows how to wield better than most.
As today’s revolutionaries try to wield power, we can expect to hear much more talk of betrayal at the hands of the administrative state.
Using Arab countries’ Shia communities, it is trying to wield control over them, with the ultimate objective of taking over Islam’s two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, over which the Saudi monarch exercises authority as the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
If these liberal democracies – which do wield their share of soft power – remain passive, the international order will continue to weaken, potentially to the point that it is shaped primarily by brute force, rather than diplomacy, cooperation, or the rule of law.
Greenpeace and many others claim that GM foods merely enable big companies like Monsanto to wield near-monopoly power.
Maharashtra’s consumer market of 128 million will wield purchasing power similar to that now seen in Brazil.
As it stands, it is impossible to know which policies Trump, a political novice, will pursue – not least because it is impossible to know which interest groups or donors will wield influence over him.
The third lesson from Berlusconi’s success is that even a very wealthy and powerful person can wield the victim narrative effectively.
And to the north is Turkey, a pro-European, largely secular and democratic country that seeks to wield influence across the Arab world.
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