Sentence examples for by powers from inspiring English sources

The Northern Alliance has long been backed by powers as disparate as Russia and Iran.

Events are being directed and shaped by powers beyond our perception.

A crucial matter is that the UN is now dominated by powers whose primary interest is in opposing "colonialism".

With major economic decisions rejected and then imposed by powers beyond their control, there was precious little to vote on.

This was my fear now for Spalding — that he was being drawn toward death by powers that neither he nor I nor any of us could contend with.

She said that it was "asking a lot" but that the request had been made by "powers that be," referring to Dean Patricia Ingraham.

For more than 25 years, by powers of attorney, Mr. Marshall has also handled his mother's financial matters, increasing her assets many times over.

But Beckett's stylistic extravagance has a purpose: it illustrates the desperate lengths people can be pushed to by powers that behave arbitrarily, indifferent to human suffering.

In addition to these operations, only scaling by powers of two is allowed.

The mother wavelet is rescaled by powers of two and transformed by integers.

The search space for μ is unbounded and hence we exponentially increased μ by powers of 10.