Sentence examples for beyond the powers of from inspiring English sources

It must have seemed that coming up with an almost 50-minute symphonic work would be "beyond" the powers of the 85-year-old composer when he started working on the composition of the first of its three, large-scale movements.

The consequences of globalization are beyond the powers of any one nation to control, even one as powerful as the United States.

It might be beyond the powers of the authorities to control".

Oh, and global forces producing massive population shifts beyond the powers of government.

It has often been beyond the powers of a single identity to solve.

It ruled that the law was invalid because it went beyond the powers of Congress under the commerce clause.

"Whitman considered opera the pinnacle of human expression," Aucoin writes, "something beyond the powers of language alone".

This law, said the majority, went beyond the powers of Congress to regulate interstate trade under the constitution's "commerce clause".

Indeed it may well be beyond the powers of Russia's corrupt, incompetent and demoralised police and interior-ministry forces.

The MetroCard, that computerized rascal, could be programmed to perform wonders far beyond the powers of the token.

In a brief statement, the supreme court said: "The issues in this appeal were whether the proposed civil legal aid residence test in the draft Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2014 is ultra vires [beyond the powers of the legislation] and unjustifiably discriminatory and so in breach of common law and the Human Rights Act 1998.