Sentence examples for contemporary power from inspiring English sources
The photo opportunity for politicians, their loving, loyal family gathered about them, is one of the most powerful lies about the real nature of contemporary power and society".
As a pro, he seemed to know that more design would have undermined the contemporary power of the fabrics.
But dressing them up in contemporary power suits and battle gear feels like too easy a bid for relevance.
He brings his radical questioning of contemporary power and organisation to the Serpentine in his first British solo show.
For Bodin, his contemporary, power was not sufficient in itself to create a sovereign; rule must comply with morality to be durable, and it must have continuity i.e., a means of establishing succession.
By contrast, Steven Lukes, one of the top contemporary power theorists, said in an interview last week that power was the capacity to make a difference in a manner that is significant.
Amenhotep carried on lively diplomatic exchanges with the other great contemporary powers, as confirmed by the Amarna Letters (diplomatic archive of Amenhotep III and Akhenaton), which reveal that Egyptian gold was exchanged for horses, copper, and lapis lazuli from Asia.
The sealing of the Magna Carta – "the Great Charter of the Liberties" – 800 years ago today, effectively ripped up the idea that monarchs have an invincible and divine right to rule, and established the contemporary powers of parliament and the laws that continue to protect and liberate us today.
They argued that the Norman invasion of 1066 had overthrown these rights, and that Magna Carta had been a popular attempt to restore them, making the charter an essential foundation for the contemporary powers of Parliament and legal principles such as habeas corpus.
These days a scrum of crooning, grinning men in white suits is markedly less desirable, and the Backstreet Boys have taken to singing adult-contemporary power ballads for much smaller, if still fervent, crowds.
These days a scrum of crooning, grinning men in white suits is markedly less desirable, and the Backstreet Boys have taken to singing adult-contemporary power ballads for slightly smaller, if still fervent, crowds.
