Sentence examples for breaking the power from inspiring English sources
A Republican victory was seen by many in the party as a deliverance – a step toward breaking the power of this Southern aristocracy.
A more orderly persecution sanctioned by St. Louis IX, in alliance with the nascent Inquisition, was more effective in breaking the power of the Cathari.
That, along with breaking the power of trade unions, was Mrs. Thatcher's most consequential achievement, and it is one that, from the post-recession perspective of 2013, looks like a disaster.
But in breaking the power of the trade unions, privatizing nationalized industries, and encouraging a culture of naked individualism, she thoroughly changed Britain, and served as a role model for conservative reformers elsewhere.
"It doesn't matter whether you're motivated by American energy independence, or by the promise of a clean-energy economy, or by breaking the power of monopolies over our home-energy choices, or by cleaner air, or by climate change," he said.
At that time, he meant to wrest control of economic and political life from large corporations (and their government yes men) and place it in the hands of citizens, by breaking the power of trusts, fostering broader economic competition, and promoting better conditions for workers whose long days and crushing labor prevented full participation in public life.
