Sentence examples for break the power from inspiring English sources

James immediately took harsh measures to break the power of the Scottish nobility.

Centrists thought he could break the power of the Washington lobby.

"We want to break the power of the local commanders," he said recently.

But that won't happen until we break the power of the fossil fuel industry.

If you break the power over sex, you can start undermining and questioning the religious and political powers.

The current president, Roh Moo-hyun, promised to break the power of the chaebols; he has done nothing.

He sought to break the power of the great magnates and of trade monopolists, both Irish and English, including the London city companies.

His object was to use radical means to break the power of what he regarded as a selfish oligarchy and thus establish the earlier England of his imagination.

Bitter industrial disputes erupted in the northwest, as iron ore companies attempted to deregulate working conditions and break the power of the labour unions.

By this and other measures, Ṣidqī sought to break the power of the Wafd, which boycotted the general election of June 1931.

He offers less-clear proposals to break the power of Washington lobbyists and pledges to be the "outsider" who tears down the corrupt status quo.