Sentence examples for beneficent power from inspiring English sources

First, they believed in the beneficent power of the state, assisted by science and technology.

An unseasonally warm winter day no longer quietens our minds with evidence of nature's beneficent power, it reminds us of the Earth's man-forged distress.

The principle for which the Bridge Company contends would seriously impair the exercise of the beneficent power of the government to secure the free and unobstructed navigation of the water ways of the United States.

A Vaishnava might possess a discus (chakra) and a conch shell (sankha), replicas of Vishnu's flaming weapon and his instrument of beneficent power and omnipresent protection, or a shalagrama stone or a tulsi plant, which represent, respectively, Vishnu's essence and that of his spouse Lakshmi.

Dickens himself considered his novels to come from some autonomous source beyond volition, as he wrote to his friend John Forster: "when I sit down to my book, some beneficent power shows it all to me, and tempts me to be interested, and I don't invent it – really do not – but see it, and write it down".

I can abandon the sense of being at the mercy of a beneficent power because I recognize that it is healthy to share goodwill and compassion.

In any community there will always be schisms and arguments, but perhaps the one thing that united the disparate groups that originally settled Christiania was a shared belief in the beneficent powers of marijuana.

In stanza 25, Vafþrúðnir responds: Delling hight he who the day's father is, but :night was of Nörvi born; the new and waning moons the :beneficent powers created, to count the years for men.

"The most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation!" The tide turned, according to Rush, when the colony's governor, William Bradford, assigned a private plot of land to each family, thereby setting loose the beneficent powers of the marketplace in the People's Republic of Plymouth Rock.

Like FDR's fight with polio and Kennedy's Catholic heritage, Obama's life includes struggle and his politics need to embrace the beneficent use of power.

In Galen's view, qualitative alteration is needed to produce the powers whereby beneficent Nature directs change: Galen credits the first group with asserting the priority of Nature and its beneficent order, and the latter with denying this.