Sentence examples for concrete power from inspiring English sources

The office has a small budget and little concrete power, but has often proved a steppingstone to running for mayor.

Lionel Trilling never had that kind of concrete power, but that doesn't stop us from continuing to read "The Opposing Self".

But concrete power resides in America's careerist technocracy, for which the elite schools, with their ideological view of gender as a social construct, are feeder cells.

The five-fold increase in the cash to communities hosting wind farms touted by Davey is nothing more than a recommendation, while the veto is a concrete power.

It has a negligible budget and little concrete power, but, as Mr. de Blasio's surge shows, politicians can use the office as a launching pad to pursue greater things; one of Mr. de Blasio's predecessors, Mark Green, captured the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2001.

This techno cathedral, in a beautiful, brutal, concrete power station on the edge of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, pulls in formidable line ups – and an even more formidable crowd – and has a deserved reputation as one of the best clubs in the world.

Others, including the Republican nominee for mayor, Joseph J. Lhota, have joked that, because the public advocate has few concrete powers, the two candidates could be allowed to serve, at a saving to taxpayers.

Delsin battles and eventually defeats Augustine with his new concrete powers.

The proposed reform was far more radical than that foreseen in the Maoshan revelations of the Southeast, and Kou was given concrete temporal power of a sort that the Xus had not envisaged.

The price is up about 50percentt even before groundbreaking partly because the market for steel, concrete and power plant components has "just gone through the roof globally," said James L. Connaughton, the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

His was a generation fired by the possibilities offered by reinforced concrete and powered by social commitment.