* A prophecy of restoration ( 7: 11 – 13 ): Fallen Jerusalem is promised that she will be rebuilt and that her power will be greater than ever ( a contrast with the vision of peace in 4: 1-5 ).

She is also described as having the power of prophecy yet she does not reveal what she knows.

He was never more manifestly the Old Man of the Sea than when he was described, like Proteus, as a shapeshifter with the power of prophecy, who would aid heroes such as Heracles who managed to catch him even as he changed shapes.

This is the prophecy of " der letzte Mensch ", the last man, the most despicable man, devoid of values, incapable of self-realization through creation of his own good and evil, devoid of any " will to power " ( Wille zur Macht ).

Ann Lee's followers testified that she had many " spiritual gifts ," including visions, prophecy, healing hands, and " the power of God " in her touch.

When intoxicated, Silenus was said to possess special knowledge and the power of prophecy.

The Bible devotes a special section to the remarkable history of the prophet, in order to answer the question, why God has taken away the power of prophecy from the Gentiles ( Tan., Balak, 1 ).

The most widely debated part of this prophecy is the phrase, “ wear you like a signet ring .” A signet ring is an authoritative symbol that is associated with power.

According to legend, Cassandra, having been given the power of prophecy by Apollo, taught it to her brother.

Seventh-day Adventists teach that great apostasy corresponded with the rise of the power of the Roman Bishop which they see as the Little Horn Power of Daniel 7 prophecy, which as predicted rose after the breakup of the Roman Empire.

Dumbledore sends Harry back to school, where, after Harry has a breakdown, screaming that " he's had enough " of all the pain and anguish and death and destruction, he explains that the sphere was a prophecy which stated that Harry has a power that Voldemort will never know: the power of love, given to him by his mother's sacrifice fifteen years earlier.

Around ten years after the Death Eaters first surfaced, a Seer named Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy about a boy who would have the power to defeat Voldemort forever.

And one text, the Asclepius, lost in Greek but partially preserved in Latin, contained a bloody prophecy of the end of Roman rule in Egypt and the resurgence of pagan Egyptian power.

And one text, the Asclepius, lost in Greek but partially preserved in Latin, contained a bloody prophecy of the end of Roman rule in Egypt and the resurgence of pagan Egyptian power.

* In Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort heard a prophecy ( made by Sybill Trelawney to Dumbledore ) that a boy born at the end of July, whose parents had defied Voldemort thrice and survived, would have the power to defeat Lord Voldemort.

The beavers recount a prophecy that the witch's power will fall when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve fill the four thrones at Cair Paravel.

About 1775 Cazotte embraced the views of the Illuminati, declaring himself possessed of the power of prophecy.

Since their prophecy, the Sidereal Exalted have split into two factions: The Bronze Faction of the Sidereal Exalted supported and orchestrated the purge of the Solar Exalted from Creation, and continues to do so with the Wyld Hunt of the Realm ; and the Gold Faction, which supported the Solars and has had little in the way of power and influence at the end of the First Age.

In the Harry Potter Universe by J. K. Rowling a prophecy by Sybill Trelawney is overheard by Severus Snape about the birth of a wizard " with the power to vanquish " Voldemort.

It is marked by his usual defects of style ; it is nevertheless a considerable monument of his expository power, and the best illustration we possess of the Antiochene method of interpreting Old Testament prophecy.

About this time, two members from one of the human factions are sent to investigate the power that was unleashed by Maya, citing a prophecy of a warrior long held in their culture.

This cult sent him to Korbal to gain the power of the lightning beasts as part of a prophecy.

Faced with the eruption, which threatens to utterly destroy his hard-built fortune and power, Ampliatus clings to the prophecy which he heard from Pompeii's resident sybil.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

It is good to know that Georgia will continue to have sufficient electrical power not only to meet the demands of normal growth but to encourage a more rapid rate of industrialization.

Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.

Lawmaking power is removed from the Board of Estimate and made a partnership responsibility of the City Council and the Mayor.

What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate.

It has also been alleged that the way the categories of the DSM are structured, as well as the substantial expansion of the number of categories, are representative of an increasing medicalization of human nature, which may be attributed to disease mongering by psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies, the power and influence of the latter having grown dramatically in recent decades.

The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately reported details of the relative nuclear arsenals of each superpower and the unknown power of " synergisms ".

Their rise has also been attributed to administrative functions ; control of the harbor required administration and also increased the Shaikh's power by giving him access to resources independent of the desert, hence some independence from tribal alliances.

Nevertheless, a significant number of deaths were caused by or attributed to Gustav, and around 1. 5 million people were without power in Louisiana on September 1.

In the original myths and legends, lycanthropy is not given any specific cause other than being generally attributed to magic, which may be voluntary ( a supernatural power ) or involuntary ( a curse ).

Transitional beliefs, however, are found, especially in Africa, in which the power of transformation is attributed to the whole of the population of certain areas.

In Abyssinia the power of transformation is attributed to the Boudas, and at the same time we have records of pathological lycanthropy ( see below ).

Alec Russell says: '... for the many colorful episodes in Banda's rise to power .. can be attributed to the tale of ' the bruising of Miss Phombeya's toe ' Russell-Big Men, Little People.

Finally, just as Aeschylus gave Prometheus a key role in bringing Zeus to power, he also attributed to him secret knowledge that could lead to Zeus's downfall: Prometheus had been told by his mother Gaia of a potential marriage that would produce a son who would overthrow Zeus.

This is attributed to a few factors: ( 1 ) he felt the federal NDP could not achieve power, because of Tommy Douglas's inability to attract voters in Quebec, ( 2 ) Trudeau expressed doubts about the centralizing policies of Canada's socialists ( he favoured a more decentralized approach ), and ( 3 ) there were " real differences " between his approach and the NDP's " two nations " approach to the Canadian constitution and the role of Quebec within Canada.

In that case, the president's power is diminished, since much of the de facto power relies on a supportive prime minister and National Assembly, and is not directly attributed to the post of president.

Possibly, the first study about the power of language may be attributed to the philosopher Empedocles ( d. ca.

Newton had also specifically attributed the inherent power of inertia to matter, against the mechanist thesis that matter has no inherent powers.

The phenomenon of repercussion, the power of animal metamorphosis, or of sending out a familiar, real or spiritual, as a messenger, and the supernormal powers conferred by association with such a familiar, are also attributed to the magician, male and female, all the world over ; and witch superstitions are closely parallel to, if not identical with, lycanthropic beliefs, the occasional involuntary character of lycanthropy being almost the sole distinguishing feature.

The power of transforming others into wild beasts was attributed not only to malignant sorcerers, but to Christian saints as well.

Western philosopher Michel Foucault, claimed that as sexual subjects, humans are the object of power, which is not an institution or structure, rather it is a signifier or name attributed to " complex strategical situation ".

But this burst of Bengali power did not last beyond his death, as Bengal descended afterwards into a period marked by disunity and foreign invasion. The development of the Bengali calendar is also often attributed to Shashanka as the starting date falls squarely within his reign ( 600 AD – 626 AD ).

The rosary has been featured in the writings of Roman Catholic figures from saints to popes and continues to be mentioned in reported Marian apparitions, with a number of promises attributed to the power of the rosary.

As of 2011, nuclear power remains one of the most important sources of energy in Sweden, much attributed to Palme's actions.

Several drawbacks are commonly attributed to D-T fusion power:

Much of the Christian right's power within the American political system is attributed to their extraordinary turnout rate at the polls.

The individual ministers do not have a ( general ) executive power, other than that which is attributed to them by special law.

Article 112 states the main principle: the power to judge disputes of private law and the law of obligations is exclusively attributed to the judiciary ( subarticle 1 ); formal law can attribute other judicial powers to either the judiciary or other courts ; delegation is possible as regards the regulation of the procedures and the implementation of rulings ( subarticle 2 ).

His true master was Dr Monro ; to the practical teaching of that first patron and the wise simplicity of method of watercolour study, in which he was disciplined by him and companioned by Giston, the healthy and constant development of the greater power is primarily to be attributed ; the greatness of the power itself, it is impossible to over-estimate.