Orwell feared that one day a ruthless, omnipotent state would train cameras on its citizens, surveilling them into obedience. |
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How does such a system of brain-washing come into being without a cruel, omnipotent dictator? |
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Liberals writing for the omnipotent liberal media can only dream of the rewards that have come the way of a whole generation of conservatives. |
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What has maintained the old world order has been the might of the omnipotent dollar. |
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Beneath his shiny pate and bulbous nose is true divinity, a noble being of omnipotent powers and perceptions. |
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The president's powers, as omnipotent as they may seem to the rest of the world, are not without democratic checks and balances at home. |
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The prevalence of evil and misery has always bothered those who believe in a benevolent and omnipotent God. |
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And then, once you've created this omniscient, omnipotent regulatory body, what happens? |
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Is the situation different if one shifts to a deity who is not omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect? |
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He gets tangled up with the disciples and Christ's robe, which seems to have its own omnipotent powers. |
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An omnipotent and omniscient being, however, would know that such an action was about to take place, and would be able to prevent it. |
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It is the decision to forswear love in order to gain omnipotent worldly power. |
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The unbelievers continue to carp about suffering and evil, and why an omnipotent, benevolent God allowed these to exist and even proliferate. |
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In a golfing era where power is depressingly close to omnipotent, he bucks almost every trend. |
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I say mythical because when synced with the narrative voice over, the illustrations spring to life as though spoken by an omnipotent deity. |
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He professes to know end-times revelation and seems omnipresent and omnipotent, virtually accepted by all. |
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Why strive for anything if the die has been cast by the supreme and omnipotent mediator of human fortunes? |
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Lisa is an omnipotent everywoman who handles each challenge with aplomb, spirit, and bouts of tearful anger. |
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Why does an omniscient, omnipotent God allow pain and suffering to happen to sentient, living things? |
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Those that wish to revert to the old system of omnipotent sub-sovereigns also miss the point. |
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Is the church merely updating its musical liturgy, or has it fallen victim to the nearly omnipotent power of popular culture? |
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The omnipotent media were pictured as conveying messages to atomized masses of individuals. |
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It seems to me that this presents a very wimpy view of what is supposed to be an omnipotent, all-powerful deity. |
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There he met a mysterious old man named Z who claims to have omnipotent powers. |
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If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? |
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They work, they may even work admirably well, but there is no sense that these contrivances are the result of an omnipotent designer. |
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If you ask theists why there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent god, there is no further explanation they can give. |
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My God, that is to say my supreme ruler, most omnipotent and the principal object of my faith, is Fate. |
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He reached out with almost omnipotent power and smote his enemies, remaining impervious to their counterattack. |
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Does Scripture imply an omnipotent deus ex machina who intervenes in the historical world to put a stop to all human evil? |
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The woman was dead, a walking, talking pale corpse seemingly brought back to life by the omnipotent mystical forces of necromancy. |
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All of a sudden the omnipotent Ondangwa Town Council became hot under the collar and declared that the previous Council's resolutions were unconstitutional. |
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It was noticeable that when Phillips, still the pupil, came to that fence, it was surer, the stride more purposeful, the energy of youth omnipotent. |
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The transcendent God is the source of all existence and is good, just, and omnipotent. |
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How does one punish the autocratic, omnipotent president of a quasi-superpower? |
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It would reign omnipotent over all the other inestimable, ageless, treasures of antiquity that thirty seven ruthless years of deep intrigue and immense wealth had brought him. |
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Yet her sexual masochism is oddly mixed with non-erotic desires for an omnipotent caretaker, infantile wishes that parallel his yearning for divine love. |
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He believes consumers want to be omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, with the maximum comfort and freedom and with the minimum effort. |
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But while Orbán has amassed formidable power, he is not omnipotent as the current wave of internet-fuelled protest shows. |
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The company's shareholders must hope that Jeff Bezos, Amazon's omnipotent boss, will have a better answer than Alexander the Great. |
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Once again, omnipotent and fabulously rich financiers are storming huge public companies. |
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Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith: this also holds true for political reason, which must not consider itself omnipotent. |
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But do we need an all-seeing omnipotent health minister from Ottawa to come along and say he does not think the motive behind the bill is good? |
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In the United Kingdom, the Parliament of which I also had the honour to be a member, is omnipotent and omnicompetent. |
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In other countries, people often believe that Liechtenstein is ruled by an omnipotent prince. |
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Further, he argues that even minimalist states still possess inherent proclivities to be omnipotent, or toward totalitarian governments. |
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And that reaffirms for me the idea that beyond us all there is this great omnipotent, omnipresent power who is a force for compassion and good and order in the world. |
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If this isn't evidence of some omnipotent power then I don't know what is. |
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No one would start from the premise that the natural world reflects the will of an omnipotent designer and conclude that the designer is benevolent. |
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If the deity is omnipotent, can It produce a truly indestructible object? |
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To say that there is, is to deny the idea that the Almighty is omnipotent. |
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With the emphatic repetition of this line at the end of the book, the image of the omnipotent deity has been exorcized from Vallejo's poetic imagery. |
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Humans have worshipped everything they could not understand, from stars, sun, moon, wind, sea, and have imagined gods that are supposed to be omnipotent, omnificent, omniscient, and omnipresent. |
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Certainly, the power of the state as omnipotent is lived out on death row. |
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Even if he is, though, the pope may be infallible, but he is not omnipotent. |
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So I remember just being giddy with excitement in those early years about the awards and feeling sort of omnipotent. |
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The woman who played an omnipotent American president like her personal violin. |
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How, again, can we explain the idea, held by so many religious people, that an omnipotent and benevolent God can justly condemn people to an eternity of torture? |
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An omnipotent deity who devours worlds according to Bevinne folklore. |
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Given that Bruce has been more than a little critical with the big guy's job performance, he's given omnipotent powers in an effort to see if he could do a better job. |
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A grown-up society would stop treating politicians as omnipotent and start directing complaints at the shadowy others who make decisions that affect us. |
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More recently, he has masterminded the rise and rise of the Leicester club he played for with distinction and he cites several reasons for their current omnipotent state. |
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Yet no one, not even the world's sole superpower, is omnipotent. |
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We would submit the first has problems once one is setting up something which is intended not only to be omnipotent or sovereign but also to be permanently so. |
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Candidates have been omnipotent as they vie for a place in the electorate's heart, or alternatively annoy a lot of people by plastering campus with publicity. |
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The victors may seem particularly potent as the disparities in power are intensified, but this does not render them omnipotent in framing the post-war order. |
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That seems like odd behavior for an omniscient and omnipotent designer. |
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Similarly the Greek and Roman gods were more like mythical heroes and heroines than like the omnipotent, omniscient and good God postulated in mediaeval and modern philosophy. |
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The transition from a planned economy to free market economy systems in Central and Eastern Europe followed on the heels of a trend to topple the centralized State's omnipotent power. |
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Science is not omnipotent and does not control everything. |
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It represents the death of our often ancient nations and their transformation into a number of powerless provinces within this bureaucratic, omnipotent and centralised State. |
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Nevertheless, I remind you that even though your spirits may have reached greatness, power, and wisdom, they will not come to be omnipotent since their attributes are not infinite as they are in God. |
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Contrary to what the rapporteurs have said, this text creates a centralised, omnipotent and totalitarian super-state that lacks an identity and a soul. |
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Although the G8 is sometimes seen as being omnipotent or the world's directoire by anti-globalization protestors, it is also criticised because it does not have real decision-making capacities. |
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It runs contrary to the traditions of most European countries with a monarchial heritage where government was viewed and is often still viewed as an omnipotent and omniscient entity. |
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They were non-material, massless beings without temporal limits, occupying no space, omniscient, omnipotent, indestructible, immortal and capable of creating anything. |
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If there are states of affairs that an omnipotent agent is powerless to bring about, then how is the notion of omnipotence intelligibly to be defined? |
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A former Beijing university philosopher professor, Liu refuses to give up on the idea that the Chinese media will one day be able to operate as a real fourth estate and stand up to the omnipotent Communist Party. |
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The argument leads to the conclusion that an omnipotent being could rationally be able to do one xor the other and still be omnipotent. |
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Goddidit is not a scientific theory, if God is assumed to be omnipotent, as omnipotence cannot be scientifically verified. |
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The hero and the contriver merge into an omnipotent artificer. |
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On the right side of Emily, the omnipotent arbiter, were Wellborn, Oldname, Toplofty, Gilding, Smartlington, Clubwin, Lovejoy and Kindheart. |
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Other than the omnipotent one, who betta to ask to help us pray for God's mercy and grace than Jesus' mother, the ev'a bless'd Virgin Mary. |
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To me, nature is an obviously omnipotent force, and we are guests. |
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Scientific intelligence in this regard is a great instrument, though it is not an omnipotent open sesame to salvation or certainty. |
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Unless He were omnipotent, we could not be sure of His ability to bless us. |
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Only poverty has been truly globalized in our age. The overpraised neoliberalism and the omnipotent market is a mistaken vision and it is the root cause of some of the most serious problems that afflict us. |
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Naturally, the powers of the root user are limited within the jail environment and, from the point of view of the host system, the jail root user is not an omnipotent user. |
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Such perhaps was the aim of Nature, who does nothing without aim, in furnishing her favorite, Man, with this his so omnipotent or rather omnipatient Talent of being Gulled. |
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Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent. |
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Theoretically, it seems possible that the narcissistic patient did not enter or complete the rapprochement crisis and that the omnipotent unity still exists intrapsychically. |
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