Sentence examples for English power from inspiring English sources

In the heyday of English power, his was the best prepared of the three expeditions.

That production cocked a revisionist eye at the pageant's attempt to control a daughter's sexuality in the name of English power.

But, like Mick, he finds himself in flight from the corridors of English power, its citadels of prestige and establishment group-think – its imperial masculinity.

It was not until the beginning of the 17th century that the English power was finally consolidated in Ireland, first by military conquest and later by the planting of English-speaking colonists on a much larger scale than before.

Guitar gods, classic rock, torch-passing -- all those themes were better served by that intergenerational pairing than they are by matching the great English power trio with the smoothly earnest junior savants who back up Jakob Dylan.

Carolina colonists staged the continent's first revolution in 1719, overthrowing the English power structure known as the Lords Proprietors when the nobles were unable to protect the residents against raids by Indians and pirates.

When he responded to Scotland's vote to remain in the UK by launching a fresh drive for English powers, the prime minister squandered an opportunity to bring the nations of Britain closer together by taking an action which is now driving them further apart.

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So jellyfish aren't being jerks any more than the adorable seal that got caught up in the cooling system at an English nuclear power plant, or the diver who was unwittingly sucked into a Los Angeles power plant, not to mention the sea turtles, manatees and billions of fish that have found themselves drawn into power plant intake pipes every year.

Hitherto, English naval power was primarily about transporting troops.

Up to now, France had regarded as somewhat vulgar the way that imported wealth — and buying of imported talent — built up the English clubs' power in European soccer.