Sentence examples for cry power from inspiring English sources
The first of four series of Citizen Smith aired in 1977, with an absurdly funny Robert Lindsay playing Wolfie Smith, a poor man's Che Guevara in a black beret, and leader of the Tooting Popular Front, a small band of inept political terrorists (battle cry, "Power to the People"), running up bar bills and attracting only scorn and indifference.
With local law enforcement acting as the FBI's muscle-headed henchmen, nowhere was it safe to throw a fist in the air and cry Power to the People.
In September 2018, Hozier released an EP, titled Nina Cried Power, featuring the title track as a single.
There were roars of "Amandla", the cry for power which used to be heard during the struggle against apartheid.
The character, whose battle cry was "power to the people", was based on one observed by Sullivan at a pub during the summer of 1968.
Therefore, he raised the battle cry, "All power to the Soviets!"—although the Bolsheviks still constituted a minority within the soviets and despite the manifest unwillingness of the Menshevik SR majority to exercise such power.
It's there in the ten-minute gospel tour de force "Sinnerman," when she cries out "Power!" like a Southern preacher and her musicians shout back "Power to the Lord!," and especially when she takes the disapproving voice of the Lord upon herself: "Where were you, when you oughta been praying?" If you'd never before thought of the Lord as a black woman, you did now.
"The cry of black power," he said, "is at bottom a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro".
It was here after all that Aristide was bundled on to a plane in February 2004, leaving behind a rebellion in full cry and a power vacuum.
Only someone resolutely on the side of the angels would write and sing a song like "Hip to Be Happy," her jazzy rallying cry for the power of positive thinking, and really mean it.
