Sentence examples for constrict power from inspiring English sources

I'm referring specifically to Sedgwick's 1985 book, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, within which she articulates the homosocial attractions shared by people of the same gender to be the cement for the same-sex alliances that constrict power and privilege in all known societies.

The art world's intellectual hero at the time was Michel Foucault, the French philosopher who examined constricting social power relations, most blatantly manifested in prisons and psychiatric hospitals.

This is obvious since at higher frequencies mode power tightly constricts at the porous core region.

Although her father is the dean of the college, Martha is constricted by her lack of power.

For a play about the liberating power of art, it feels constricted and contrived.

In addition, the explanatory power of our data is constricted since we do not provide a multicentric assessment.

On that Sunday, a black president, stood in front of over 500 black college men, their families and the world, and affirmed, by his words, his position, and his mere presence that faulty assumptions, constricting the social imagination of black males were losing power, quickly.

Schnogh is a progressive tightening device, applied by transforming power of hand-twisting rotation into circumferentially constricting compression force around an axis.

This approach is not just constricting the initiative and talent of great teachers by diminishing the power of teaching, it also runs counter to the very best recent research on how children learn".

The Hamas government focused on Israel, blaming it for constricting Gaza's electricity supply, noting that Israel bombed the Gaza power station in 2006 and has long blockaded the territory from receiving many supplies, including fuel needed to run the station.

Ingenious as it is about art, ambition, hubris and the power of the imagination, this vigorous, sprightly book is ultimately constricted by the narrow idea from which it evolved.