While I am certainly aware that men wield power over women in this society, what I find more difficult to accept is that they wield power over me, specifically.
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Everyone assumed that he would wield power behind the scenes.
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That's because they are the way to wield power safely.
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Clinton would wield power in two ways he found problematic.
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But Sanchez says, beyond parties, these new voters will wield power.
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And second, it demonstrates how hardliners wield power over Iran's economy.
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The people who wield power, like the supreme leader, are inaccessible.
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Words can wield power for a long time after they've been spoken.
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In places where the federal government does wield power, Congress often stymies progress.
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Threatening to leave is not the only way the rich can wield power.
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"It was them trying to wield power as a governing body," Hendrix said.
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The report gave a detailed account of Mr. Trump's bids to wield power.
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These views represent competing visions for how progressives should wield power in Congress.
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Europe, it is said, is too divided, complacent and weak to wield power decisively.
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The most influential vice-presidents wield power only at the pleasure of the president.
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I hope and believe that women can wield power more responsibly and more justly.
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But some researchers believe there may be specific characteristics to the way women wield power.
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Strident nationalists wield power in Italy, Hungary, Poland and Austria, and have gained influence elsewhere.
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Republicans, increasingly, wield power only because America's political system insulates them from the public's judgments.
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Smaller startups are increasingly critical of how big tech companies wield power in Silicon Valley.
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The desire to create, maintain or wield power over others destroys the possibility of friendship.
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Yeah, which we know now why he was so keen to wield power over journalists.
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Ivanka remains the sole beneficiary of the trust and continues to wield power over the brand.
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The ayatollahs who wield power in Tehran have fallen out with those who study in Qom.
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And to assimilate with those who wield power, we often feel pressured to be like them.
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Alas, it would also involve those who wield power deferring to the rights of individual workers.
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Few want to risk falling out of favor with the men who wield power over them.
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Many political observers believe she'll never again be able to wield power effectively due to the scandal.
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As his investigation progressed, Fisten said he saw Epstein wield power to try and silence his accusers.
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The latter could allow Mr. Xi to continue to wield power behind the scenes after he retires.
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It turns out that machines don't have to be superhuman or superintelligent to wield power over us.
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Reformers who know how to wield power within the system can sometimes succeed — revolutionaries almost always fail.
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Polk's willful self-deception is linked to her ability to wield power while denying she possessed it.
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Exactly how the police will wield power under this law will become known when it goes into effect.
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You can wield power, you can wield taste — in excluding other people, demonstrate a different kind of power.
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Electing more women to office normalizes the idea that women and other marginalized groups can wield power effectively.
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Now that, relatively speaking, the security situation has improved Iraqis no longer have patience with those who wield power.
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But the establishment of a parallel party structure has given them a chance to wield power and peacock around.
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It exists to give people control over those who wield power, and those who have power often want more.
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There is no way I'd want to see that boy given a lifelong appointment to wield power over others.
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Ask yourself: can you say with confidence what the Democratic agenda is, and how they intend to wield power?
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It opens up ideas about who can access and wield power in ways that can be unsettling and provoke backlash.
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"The job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it," writes Adams.
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If women, for instance, wield power more humanely than men, will that difference remain when more women have more power?
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Since venture capitalists work heavily in this startup space, they wield power based on the companies in which they invest.
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Wielding power by giving it up Sometimes, the best way to wield power is, at first, to give it up.
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Noonan really was one of Albany's great shadowy eminences; 15 years after her death, she still seems to wield power.
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The white supremacist message is just an unashamed, vocal expression of something a lot of those who wield power feel subconsciously.
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Spreading democratic ideals is not a consistent priority for the United States; it increasingly wants to wield power from a distance.
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Experts say sometimes bystanders see the victim as less important than the person committing the crime, who appears to wield power.
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"Anyone who laughs at the ultimate assault on the dignity of women should not be allowed to wield power," Roxas said.
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He had scant respect for any of those who got to wield power in Congo - from Mobutu and his cronies onwards.
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When humans bump up against beings who wield power beyond their comprehension, they respond with awe and even something like devotion.
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This, she had seen, was how you wield power: You didn't just need to be heard, you needed to be feared.
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The progressive caucus has touted itself as an organization that can wield power and leverage the votes of its 90 members.
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Now he must wield power, risk making enemies, drive bargains and deploy the political muscle to get his troops behind a bill.
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Heinz-Christian Strache, who took over the FPÖ after it left government, is impatient to wield power and running out of time.
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The key difference here is the actors – the recognition that tech giants do not only wield power because they are ridiculously wealthy.
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Sansa became an unequivocal tactical and leadership genius by learning how to wield power against enemies to scheme for an ultimate good.
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But Cuomo's campaign against the NRA suggests that he could wield power in a manner that's eerily similar to the current president.
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The field of human rights is not about pretty words; it involves the abuse of the vulnerable by those who wield power.
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Alabama police and prosecutors strategically wield power and influence with hospitals and medical clinicians to ferret out women who "endanger" their pregnancies.
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So please, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, stop whingeing about sexism and just show how you could wield power like a boss.
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So please, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, stop whingeing about sexism and just show how you could wield power like a boss.
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Sansa is a great choice, we just haven't even gotten to see her actually wield power in the books up to this point.
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Brazil's prison population has surged in recent decades, overwhelming authorities and empowering gangs that now wield power both inside and outside of jail.
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Critics argue that men or women in senior positions wield power over subordinates that throws the "consensual" nature of the relationship into question.
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But Mr. Hadi struggled to control a nation already deeply divided, and Mr. Saleh continued to wield power by aligning with the Houthis.
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Some worry that the comedian may simply be a tool of another Ukrainian fat cat trying to wield power, a charge Zelensky denies.
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Women can still wield power destructively, and recognizing this — our capacity to do harm — is necessary if we are to own our power.
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Some ultraconservative clerics in Saudi Arabia, who wield power and influence in the judiciary and education sectors, had warned against allowing women to drive.
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Absent changes to our electoral system, the only way to wield power in American politics is to control one of the two major parties.
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Each gives a living sacrifice to Shadows, a torture chamber that drains victims of magic and allows member houses to wield power without consequence.
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They suspect he wants to continue to wield power over the world's largest nation, which is also one of its two leading nuclear powers.
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Some are concerned that the comedian may simply be a tool of another Ukrainian fat cat trying to wield power, a charge Zelensky denies.
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Investigations become more challenging when the country where the alleged corruption took place refuses to co-operate (usually because those under suspicion still wield power).
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It should discourage the formation of the sprawling coalitions that wield power in Brazil, lessening the need for pork and patronage to hold them together.
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They wield power in the form of formularies: plans that rank drugs in tiers that determine how much patients end up paying out of pocket.
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Yet Gulenists also belong to a secretive network that has ruthlessly sought to wield power, in glaring contradiction of the moderation the movement's officials preach.
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Although union membership in France has slumped to around 8 percent of the work force, unions still wield power and don't hesitate to use it.
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Watchmen's credo, in both the comics and the show, is that it's impossible for humans to wield power and remain uncorrupted, and that includes Angela.
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Theirs were not just squabbles between factions but deeper disputes over the purposes of the Democratic Party as it strove to win elections and wield power.
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This refusal to wield power is symptomatic of a deeper malaise within a certain generation of Democratic leaders, as my colleague Alex Pareene noted last month.
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In the moment, I didn't see his behavior as characteristic of the movie industry; he was just another man trying to wield power over a woman.
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Her success raises a question newly relevant after Hillary Clinton's loss: Is this stealth strategy the most effective way for women to gain and wield power?
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Mr. Rutte's party lost seats, even as it came out on top, and will need to join forces with several others in order to wield power.
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Ms Gohir has also denounced Muslim men who wield power in the local establishment for blocking the efforts of women to become councillors or even mosque trustees.
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The European Union is too weak and its countries are too divided to act in concert, as they would have to do to wield power over Trump.
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And this kind of goal-oriented cruelty is enabled by the unique and vast ability of governments to instill fear in those over whom they wield power.
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This means that regime insiders whom the international community finds unsavory could still wield power post Maduro, likely sharing it with populist-leaning members of the opposition.
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The central dynamic of this multilayered story is provided by the book's title, which signifies the multiple ways in which Europeans strove to acquire and wield power.
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For after tearing at America's divides to win and wield power, the President used his big televised moment on Tuesday night to pose as the great uniter.
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There is a respectful distance that is essential to maintaining a pedagogical culture of fairness and ethical treatment of students, over whom we as teachers wield power.
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In other words, Rogowski wrote, our research suggests that how presidents wield power matters, and the public does not view presidents fondly for violating accepted constitutional arrangements.
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To make the point that it's women who control this narrative—women who wield power and have the most tangible sway—almost feels moot because it's so obvious.
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Trump's presidential campaign, in which he called for "law and order," has left many in the information security community concerned about how the new administration will wield power.
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At the state level, hunting and ranching interests wield power to fund lobbying efforts to delist wolves from the ESA, legitimize wolf bounties, and expand hunting and trapping.
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A health care repeal bill did eventually pass the House -- but it failed in the Senate, rising huge doubts about the GOP's capacity to wield power in Washington.
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Opposition lawmakers have said he is an example of how the late Hugo Chavez's "21st century socialism" has allowed unprepared political figures to wield power over financial deals.
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We expect to see a seismic change because of this new right, not only in housing court, but also in our homes and neighborhoods where landlords wield power.
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As Russia's weak legal infrastructure is what experts credit with enabling Putin and his allies to wield power, this environment looks unlikely to change in the near-term.
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He wants to wield power in the new administration, to be sure, but does he want it enough to give up his roles at Palantir, Facebook, and Founders Fund?
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He also knew that European subsidies would follow the land, widening the gap between rich and poor and making it easier for those at the top to wield power.
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His own story involves a secret — the fact that he is illegal — and those who do know it wield power over him, and exert it to the point of humiliation.
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"Dangerous Women demonstrates how throughout history men have feared women who wield power through their intellect and sexuality," said Dr. Jordana Pomeroy, the Director of the Frost Art Museum FIU.
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Such a scenario would see him wield power longer than Soviet leader Josef Stalin, but still leave him well short of Tsar Peter the Great, who reigned for 43 years.
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That diversity makes it hard for any one religious group to dominate Democrats the way that Evangelicals — now often in concert with conservative Catholics — wield power in the Republican Party.
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That's what VICE News discovered after visiting Ballarò, a small market area, and traditional mafia stronghold near Palermo, Sicily, where the infamous Cosa Nostra mafia syndicate continues to wield power.
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" When I asked Gene Healy for his simplest definition, he said, "High crimes and misdemeanors are serious misconduct that demonstrates in officials unfitness to hold high office or to wield power.
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All of this puts Dodd in an unusual, perhaps advantageous position: She may not hold a vote on the committee, but that doesn't mean she lacks an opportunity to wield power.
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Paradise Island, instead of being a place that lives separately and peacefully from the world of man, now becomes a place where men like Zeus wield power and Amazons are vindictive.
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The progressive government is passing popular programs opposed by a minority of Virginians -- a minority that, having lost recent elections, is looking for any other way to continue to wield power.
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Because Republicans expected to be in the minority, they had a strong incentive to make nice with Democrats because forming bipartisan alliances was the most reliable way for Republicans to wield power.
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Now, thanks to Trump, McConnell has the ability to actually wield power, to enact policy—and like the Republican Party he leads, he has very few ideas about how to do that.
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Effectively she was buying into the idea that for a woman to wield power in what was historically a man's world, she had to pretty much dress like a man — but brighter!
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Manafort was paid more than $55 million for coaching Yanukovych on how to win office and wield power, and hid his money his from U.S. authorities in a network of offshore accounts.
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It will be up to citizens themselves to make clear to those who wield power in their names that they do not wish to live under the gaze of a genetic panopticon.
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On Iraq, those reluctant to condition American support for Iraq's Shiite-dominated government on its willingness to wield power more inclusively cited the imperative to support its fight against the Islamic State.
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It acknowledges its own scenario — in which a woman can only wield power because she's beautiful, and a schlubby dude in a windbreaker can navigate those same rarefied circles with ease — as ridiculous.
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But what's not so great is when people whose views would disqualify them from ever getting elected manage to wield power all the same, simply because they have enough money to buy influence.
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Influential buyers' clubs are largely unheard of in commodity markets where it is the producers, such as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), who wield power, enforcing production quotas to manage prices.
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But many female corrections officers say they're in a unique position: Not only do they endure abuse from supervisors or coworkers, they're also dealing with it from inmates over whom they wield power.
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Now, neither country -- both of which wield power to veto UN Security Council resolutions, don't forget -- knows what to expect from Washington, so it makes sense that they would plan for the worst.
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But "Love & Friendship" is not the average regency story, and if it can't be thought feminist, it is an unsentimental look at the machinations women employed to wield power in a limited sphere.
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Instead of protecting the rights of vulnerable populations against those who traditionally wield power, this new division stands to defend and exacerbate existing and historic inequalities, and possibly cause real harm to individuals.
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The problem was that Neumann could still wield power over the company even after he quit as CEO on September 24 because, as WeWork's founder, each of his shares had 10 voting rights.
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Their children — two sons fighting with the local rebels and two daughters married to fighters — are leaving for Idlib, where hard-line Islamist groups wield power and government and Russian warplanes strike daily.
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"This is a test of pursuing our ideals versus how we wield power in our government," said one Democratic strategist who did not want to be named wrestling with his side's moral quandary.
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I asked Hughes how he came to terms with the inherent contradiction of trying to wield power he gained through his wealth and entrepreneurship to dismantle the economic system that produced that wealth.
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It is of course a made-up name, because the clientele is so rarified it would rather not acknowledge the terms of admission: to wield power without recourse to real checks and balances.
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The six-part series, loosely adapted from a 1985 fantasy novel by Patrick Süskind, is violent but compelling, and touches on issues of domestic violence and the ways women and men wield power.
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It was Oliver's message and the work of the Seattle People's Party that felt that most to me like creating the conditions in which to wield power — with an eye on the long game.
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It is a more inspiring view to see so many powerful women from so many different backgrounds represent their country, a depiction that helps change the narrative of who exactly gets to wield power.
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Mr. Mohamed leads a weak federal government that is trying to wield power and influence over six states, while the Shabab, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, regularly challenges its rule with acts of terrorism.
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Pelosi's unmatched fundraising ability, coupled with her willingness to wield power within her party when it came to committee assignments and other plum prizes, made her unassailable as leader of Democrats in the House.
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Cyber attacks, the use pf deniable non-uniformed military forces, building artificial islands or using state-backed corporations to wield power are all much harder for potential foes to manage, particularly an increasingly distracted United States.
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Many in Washington, and inside the banks, say that the way federal agencies wield power under the new administration has changed: for its supporters, becoming more reasonable and judicious; for opponents, becoming more cursory and irresponsible.
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However, language can also repress: It's not a coincidence that the people who are most often allowed to deem the world too sensitive and politically correct are the ones who wield power and privilege over others.
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Mr. Lee and other family members could still wield power behind the scenes, say people who study South Korea's biggest companies, the way some of the country's other business empires have been run from jail cells.
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It empowers progressive figures like Bishop Erwin Kräutler, an Austrian-born missionary who led a vast, forested Brazilian territory for over 30 years, at the expense of better-known clerics who wield power in big cities.
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There are libertarians and conservatives who are equally alarmed by some of the overreaching actions of the executive branch, and the permission that's being given to local law enforcement and others to wield power heavy-handedly.
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The leaderless opposition movement casts the election as pointless if the ruling hierarchy, including the army, continues to wield power, and wants it put off until more top officials step aside and the military quits politics.
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It is true that, amid the compelling truths of how the Clintons wield power, there exist a host of "Arkansas Project" conspiracy theories, falsehoods, and inventions deployed by the right purely to destroy a hated political adversary.
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Nearly a month into his tenure as secretary of state, Rex Tillerson is winning over foreign governments but alienating many employees at the agency he leads and raising questions about his ability to wield power in Washington.
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Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is urging his state's retirement pension fund to divest from fossil fuels, though the manager of that fund has said it's best to stay in and wield power by things like shareholder votes.
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It is really a debate over the sorts of institutions that produce and celebrate candidates like Buttigieg — and whether we want to continue allowing those institutions to dictate who is qualified to wield power in our society.
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Critics have long accused Putin, a former KGB officer, of plotting to stay on in some capacity after his term ends to wield power over the world's largest nation - and one of its two biggest nuclear powers.
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Others still, drawing on New Testament imagery, say Christians' response to worldly authority should be one of "salt and light": in other words they should challenge rulers by exposing their hypocrisy, but without aspiring to wield power themselves.
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That is why it is essential that the people who wield power have the right to do so, and why political theorists spend so much time thinking about when they do have that right, and when they don't.
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"You see early in life with that kind of a family background the way in which the most powerful men in America wield power for good and for ill," said Farrow, who is also actress Mia Farrow's son.
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"A lot of transactional money in Washington will start moving when they see results," Mr. Davis said, referring to the lobbyists whose contribution decisions are guided in part by which party they believe will wield power next year.
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So when the Sudanese generals announced that a Transitional Military Council had been formed to wield power until elections could be held, the protesters stayed put outside army headquarters, demanding that civilians be put in charge of the transition.
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Manuel Roxas, another of the five candidates for the presidency, said that rape is a serious problem and "anyone who laughs at the ultimate assault on the dignity of women should not be allowed to wield power," CNN Philippines reported.
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Khan, a former cricket star who leads Pakistan's third party, has been one of her harshest critics and recently called her a "princess", tapping into opposition anger that she appears to wield power within the government without holding any office.
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In an age when no Democrat—let alone a progressive one—is unencumbered by the sobering reality of Republican control of every part of government, it's gratifying to see members like Porter finding ways to wield power that uniquely suit them.
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Originally developed in 1993 by activists Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar, it demonstrates the abusive tactics beyond physical violence — such as withholding money, threatening to leave and isolating partners from friends and family — that are used to wield power and control.
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Yet this exhibition — like the hit soap opera "Story of Yanxi Palace" — is ultimately not about love but about power: how to get power, how to wield power, and how to maintain power in circumstances not propitious for your gender.
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Critics have long accused Putin, a former KGB officer, of plotting to stay on in some capacity after his term ends to continue to wield power over the world's largest nation, which is also one of its two leading nuclear powers.
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Critics have long accused Putin, a former KGB officer, of plotting to stay on in some capacity after his term ends so that he can wield power over the world's largest nation - and one of its two biggest nuclear powers.
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And despite there being a fairly even split of ideological beliefs among the citizenry, there is only one party that has been willing to unrelentingly wield power this past decade, thanks to circumstances that might feel eerily familiar to those outside the state.
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Many fleeing Venezuelans predict the high and rising rate of violence at home will eventually lead their country to a civil war, waged between the police, a rebellious citizenry and the many armed groups that wield power in cities across the country.
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It was a cry of anger and frustration from more than half the country against those who wield power, wealth and privilege, both in their own government and in Brussels, and against global forces in a world that they felt was squeezing them out.
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Harvard political scientist Daniel Carpenter has argued that this is how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became the most powerful regulator in the US: not by capitulating to industry, but by building a reputation for expertise and caution that let it wield power with more authority.
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In their book How Democracies Die, Harvard's Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky argue that extreme polarization produces a sense among elected officials that the other party is a fundamental threat to the country's survival, and that the consequences of allowing them to wield power will be catastrophic.
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Critics have accused him of plotting to wield power beyond 2024 however, suggesting he might change the constitution to run again as president, shift power to parliament and assume an enhanced role as prime minister, or head a new union state comprised of Russia and neighboring Belarus.
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There is a case to be made that Trump's constant twisting of truth, invention of false political realities and strategy of tearing at the country's racial, gender and societal divides in order to capture and wield power threaten the eternal values and institutions of the nation itself.
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"If someone of his stature can be taken down by our legal system, and people can find justice from this 'untouchable,'" said Beckie Warren, a Brooklyn yoga teacher and art curator, "then someone in a much lower position who thinks they can wield power over women might think twice."
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The women affected by this scenario process their rage in various ways: The handmaids are assembled and compelled to beat men accused of sex crimes, while the complicit wives vent the horror of their situations by physically and emotionally abusing the handmaids, the only people over whom they wield power.
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Pelosi took the pulse of members, but also gave a pep talk about what they could still accomplish in the minority with a new Republican in the White House, suggesting they could wield power and have a greater voice since in recent years their proposals were overshadowed by President Obama's bully pulpit.
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But the biggest reason for Giuliani to back Trump is the same reason Chris Christie and Ben Carson found it worthwhile to endorse him, and that Newt Gingrich has been flirting with him: Trump offers, by far, the best opportunity for these people to wield power and shape policy in a Republican administration.
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But because of the deeply broken state of our money-choked and mostly unregulated election machinery, those funds go instead to people like McGowan, who wield power within the party because they are able to raise money, not because they have shown any real ability to spend it in ways that help Democrats win elections.
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One good reason a Ted Cruz supporter might have for tactically voting Kasich in order to block Trump from securing the nomination would be that Trump is manifestly unfit to serve as president — he's ignorant of policy, he flames racial resentment, and he's given multiple indications that he would wield power in a violent and lawless manner.
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Conventional oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia, have traditionally used their huge resource riches to wield power globally, particularly among big consumer countries such as the US. This relationship has been disrupted in recent years by hydraulic fracturing and other new technologies that have helped the US unlock vast reserves and enabled it to become more energy independent.
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The capture of the Navy sailors was quickly seized on by U.S. opponents of the nuclear deal as the latest in a series of provocations by Tehran since the deal was agreed, which include aggressive attempts to wield power in its immediate neighborhood and conduct ballistic missile tests that the United Nations claimed violated a Security Council resolution.
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The capture of the Navy sailors was quickly seized on by U.S. opponents of the nuclear deal as the latest in a series of provocations by Tehran since the deal was agreed, which include aggressive attempts to wield power in its immediate neighborhood and ballistic missile tests that the United Nations charged violated a Security Council resolution.
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She looks at how a government might compel a woman to bear children against her will, at how society convinces women to hate their bodies, at how a rich older man might wield power over his naive young wife, or how one teenage girl who has managed to accumulate social capital uses it to punish her less popular friends.
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While Mr. Trump has been reshaping Republican identity for nearly two years — starting with his 2016 nomination victory and the hard-line tone and platform he laid out at that summer's Republican convention — he has never had this much opportunity to wield power over the party as he does now, including over immigration legislation and tariffs in Congress.
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Ann Marie Taliercio, the AFL-CIO president for the Central New York Area Labor Federation, has argued that the convention leaves collective bargaining rights, pension funding, and benefits for injured workers open to attack from the very legislators who now wield power in Albany: Elected officials, including state legislators, can run to be delegates and can collect double their salary.
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Where Jackson made it his mission to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, which he viewed as a construct of the nation's wealthy to wield power over the people, Mr. Trump saved the Export-Import Bank and signaled that he may preserve the leadership of the Federal Reserve, two modern-day tools of federal power in the economy.
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It turns out Harvey wanted me to do another Vanity Fair, and he really wanted me to do another Vanity Fair, I then realized, as I got into it, to grow his own power base, to assign stories that would then keep them from writing about him, and to basically have a media power base which enabled him to wield power over journalists.
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This boldly minimalist production, directed by Fanny de Chaillé, featured little more than a table, a chair, a microphone, and an actor in a white turtleneck and gray blazer who didn't so much imitate Foucault as depict a man possessed by his own message — as though the words themselves, established at the outset as instruments of power, have come to wield power over him.
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We're now all the way down here where the people who hate reading Game of Thrones through a sociopolitical lens hopefully have not followed us, and I have to say — for a show that many people have read as a tale of what it would mean for women to wield power in lots of different ways, the final episode of Game of Thrones didn't suggest to me that anybody involved in the series was interested in that sort of thing at all.
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