The point is more acquisition of “free money” for the powers-that-be to confiscate and spend for their pet schemes and continuation of power. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I know the powers-that-be in the Vatican are comfortable with current arrangements, but it would seem that the needs of ministry and the availability of the Eucharist only priests can consecrate the Eucharist in the Catholic tradition should trump everything else. ❋ Maureen Fiedler (2011)
Of course we're not saying, but we'll give you a hint, straight from the powers-that-be: Executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman hinted to TV Guide Magazine that "when you hear it, you will say 'oh yeah, that makes sense.'" ❋ Unknown (2011)
Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike .... ❋ Unknown (2010)
However much this show may reveal a creative imagination at work, it is also a reminder that the wider public needs to pay close attention to what the powers-that-be may have in store for the city. ❋ Julie V. Iovine (2010)
[Jim David] Adkisson pleaded guilty Monday in Knox County Criminal Court to a deadly shooting rampage at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, the Kingston Pike home of what the 58-year-old Powell man deemed “ultra liberals” and “foot soldiers” for the powers-that-be in the liberal movement. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Form ought not be dismissed because it is upheld by the literary worlds's elitist powers-that-be but should be embraced because it so often confounds them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is one year since the powers-that-be in the euro zone crafted a plan to get Greece over a liquidity hump and onto the sunlit meadows of fiscal sustainability. ❋ Irwin Stelzer (2011)
They also feel rightly or wrongly that they are opening up potential for data misinterpretation and critique from armchair auditors, powers-that-be and the media – not actively driving the agenda until forced to do so helps to minimise what are already very pressured roles in this current climate. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The heart of the problem is what those powers-that-be are up against, the pressure exerted by the prejudiced and privileged to maintain this unjust segregation by shrouding it in misdirections and misrepresentations. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
The powers-that-be in Edinburgh would be well advised to study Dublin's imaginative programme ❋ Susannah Clapp (2010)
It was obvious he wasn't necessarily in favor of a softer game, if you will, but Young said of the NFL's powers-that-be: They don't want to see it. ❋ Michael Wilbon (2010)
When will the Republican powers-that-be learn that only Democrats win with 100% negative campaigns? ❋ Unknown (2011)
Hylel Belhassen, a 51-year-old insurance salesman, summing up the concerns of some, saying: We're afraid that the president has left, but the powers-that-be remain. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And the only clue to their identity … two spray-painted letters: N.W. Who are these mysterious young upstarts that have dared to fight the powers-that-be? ❋ Unknown (2009)
The group's president, Steve Bartlett, had invited Warren to speak at the meeting before President Obama named her to the lead role in shaping the new consumer agency, before she had an official title, before her words had to be vetted by the powers-that-be in the administration. ❋ Brady Dennis (2010)
Since it has become fashionable for the powers-that-be to frame muslim people for every bad deed that happens around the world (in the absence of the "Big Bad Soviet Threat"), we find that pinning the blame on someone with a vaguely Arabic sounding name is easy, because it (a) fits our comfort zone, and (b) gives the military a place to hang it's oversized cowboy hat. ❋ Unknown (2009)
