Sentence examples for cup powers from inspiring English sources

Turkey was the last survivor of the tournament's dark horses, whose victories over long-established World Cup powers has made this year's event so unpredictable.

The wave of serious injuries that has struck World Cup powers like Italy, Germany and England has now also affected the lineup of the United States.

It has also been thoroughly superseded in the tennis world by the four Grand Slam tournaments, which originally earned their major status in part because the United States, Australia, France and Britain were the primary Davis Cup powers.

To be a World Cup power for the first time, Ireland must beat the wacky French.

Coffee Cup Power Inverter [ThinkGeek via BBG].

They aren't doing anything special as far as we can tell, but at least they have a special site section for the World Cup (powered by Fanhouse).

That may be the approach that U.S. soccer needs to become a World Cup power (though not this year), but it won't make Klinsmann a very popular guy along the way.  .  .  .

There are jet engines the size of coffee cups powering autonomous aircraft and powerful electric motors that make children's helicopters more useful than anything that was possible just 10 years ago.

How does Smith explain the cups' prophetic powers?

So here we are, 10 days into the first African World Cup, a power-shift event.

3.55pm: The secret to Uruguay's success at this World Cup? BBQ power, judging by this Diego Forlan twitpic.