Sentence examples for capricious power from inspiring English sources

It is not just businesses that suffer from the capricious power supply, but individuals too.

The edict Mr. Morsi issued Thursday — hastily put out in reaction to one man's case — did little to ease the perception of capricious power.

For clearly the value of history as a source of practical lessons is diminished if cause and effect are at the mercy of an incalculable and capricious power.

The contrasts there evoked the capricious power of an earthquake, with structurally sound buildings standing across the street from smoking mounds of rubble five or six stories high.

It wasn't until Ms. Lyde's third child, a daughter, turned 3 that "the system came into my life," she says, nodding with respect and perhaps some fear for the social services bureaucracy, with all its rules and whims and capricious power to change her family's life for worse and then for better.

At the same time, in what seemed a clear rebuke to the efforts of Western nations to take an aggressive stance against the Zimbabwean government, the A.N.C. included a lengthy criticism of the "arbitrary, capricious power" exerted by Africa's colonial masters and cited the subsequent struggle by African nations to gain freedoms and rights.

The public interest is not served by allowing unaccountable federal agencies to exercise arbitrary and capricious powers, not rationally related to carrying out any legitimate governmental purpose".

Gambians had come to expect surprises from their leader – cruel, violent and capricious in power – just not ones that set the whole nation dancing in the streets and sent shockwaves of joy and inspiration across the continent.

It conveys a sense of fairness and of protection from the capricious exercise of power.

But is he lucky?'" It may be that baseball and finance are uniquely linked by the inability to escape the capricious and tremendous power of luck.

Massive, mythical and sometimes monstrously hard to get into (the door staff can be terrifyingly capricious), the converted power station Berghain lives up to its worldwide reputation, and carries the torch for Berlin's deathless techno inheritance.