Sentence examples for accumulated powers from inspiring English sources

On paper, the changes restore the country's democracy to its original form — a parliamentary system run by a prime minister — and undo the accumulated powers that the country's military autocrats had vested in the presidency.

These "celestial" bodhisattvas are functionally equivalent to buddhas in their wisdom, compassion, and powers: their compassion motivates them to assist ordinary beings, their wisdom informs them how best to do so, and their accumulated powers enable them to act in miraculous ways.

As Carrasco accumulated power, she made what Rivera calls "intimate enemies" inside her own party.

Having accumulated power so determinedly, he and his entourage are unlikely to give it away.

Although he basked in fame, he never accumulated power: each night, he gave away everything he had.

Mr. Murdoch has accumulated power to a degree that makes him a real political force in Britain and the United States.

It took him longer than Khrushchev to become national leader, but that was because he accumulated power gradually instead of adopting the high-risk strategy of his predecessor.

Ms. Maxfield spoke to a common sentiment when she discussed the physical singularity of P.S. 122 and the accumulated power of so much history.

Even Mr. Li acknowledged the potential obstacles posed by those who have accumulated power and wealth during China's three-decade embrace of market reform.

Experts said that vast political influence, however, over centuries of accumulated power allowed the eight high sheriffs to remain as the sole survivors of a county government system that was abolished by the Legislature 40 years ago.

And so, like many Presidents before him, Obama turned to foreign policy, where the Constitution and accumulated power give him a much freer hand, and where the modern G.O.P. can't play its customary nihilistic role.