Sentence examples for been power from inspiring English sources
noun
Ability to coerce, influence or control. Ability to affect or influence.
"But of yours, it has been power".
The main issue has always been power.
Hun Sen has been power for even longer than Mr. Lukashenko.
Drew's defenders say that she shared information with the people she felt needed to know, but that those inquires may well have been power grabs.
"He was 'Seinfeld' before 'Seinfeld.' Comics, which had been power fantasies for 12-year-old boys, could now be about anything".
That day, there had been power for only two hours of the workday, and a small generator whirred in the corner.
Outside, a thunderstorm had just blown over, and it felt as if the air had been power-washed.
On Days Are Gone, even the lumbering glitterbeat of The Wire has been power-dressed; the ballad Go Slow is punctuated by explosive In the Air Tonight pounding.
Mr. James pointed out the contrast between the boarded-up five-story building at 2037 Third Avenue and a building next door that had been power-washed and given new windows, showing that an improved building could be fully occupied.
This is particularly true of the city's pro-sports franchises, whose most memorable (and successful) figures — the brusque Giants and Jets coach Bill Parcells, the egomaniacal Knicks coach Pat Riley, and, of course, the Boss, George Steinbrenner — have often been power-hungry taskmasters and my-way-or-the-highway Machiavellis.
The most inflammatory stuff had been power-washed away by Friday morning, according to one campus employee who asked to not be named because he wasn't authorized to talk to the press.
