Sentence examples for broken the power from inspiring English sources
Technological change has broken the power of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to keep the oil price high.
Moreover, he has broken the power of the securocrats who were a major obstacle to change - the generals who had gradually taken over state political functions under his predecessor, P. W. Botha.
"There is no doubt that putting some services out to tender has vastly improved certain standards over the years, broken the power of vested interests and brought in competition that has sharpened up results … The wholescale mass privatisation of a service is rarely needed, but a little gingering up round the edges has an electrifying effect on sleepy outfits.
Two years before, he had broken the power of the newspaper print unions at Wapping.
The onset of decline in the Abbasid Caliphate after 861 (the "Anarchy at Samarra") was followed by the Battle of Lalakaon in 863, which had broken the power of the border emirate of Malatya and marked the beginning the gradual Byzantine encroachment on the Arab borderlands.
"The political objective is to break the core of power based on impunity".
The blow that finally broke the power of the academy was struck in France.
The current president, Roh Moo-hyun, promised to break the power of the chaebols; he has done nothing.
Stewart: The first major consideration was breaking the power of party bosses.
James immediately took harsh measures to break the power of the Scottish nobility.
The proposed codes are attractively characterized with length flexibility, which breaks the "power of two" constraint.
