Sentence examples for deny power from inspiring English sources
A succession of presidents from the Christian south have worked assiduously and often unscrupulously in the intervening years to deny power to Alassane D. Ouattara, a popular leader from the more heavily populated and predominantly Muslim northern region.
With A.V., he said, Britain's "progressive majority" could deny power to "a right-wing clique who want to keep things as they are" — a characterization of Mr. Cameron and the Conservatives calculated to encourage grass-roots Liberal Democrats who favor an end to the coalition, and with it, in all likelihood, an end to Mr. Clegg's time as party leader.
This rule, however, did not deny power to the Circuit Court of Appeals to review facts, but rather went to the weight to be accorded to the findings of a lower court and had special pertinence where credibility of witnesses was involved.
In a special report, the Associated Press today said that on 12 occasions in the last decade hackers gained top-level access to key power networks, raising the spectre that acts of cyber-sabotage could plunge whole cities into darkness or deny power to key military installations.
Political trusts deny power to the many by concentrating power in the hands of the few.
Zionism should empower citizens; it should deny power to all those who claim it on religious grounds; it should not empower zealots.
Not surprisingly, those who are currently denied power in society are the most at-risk in this data driven future.
By any measure, PiS won the argument, and the campaign, and it will be odd if it is denied power.
The National League for Democracy won an election landslide in 1990 only to be denied power by the military.
It is this fundamentally contradictory condition of law that ultimately denies power any absolute hold, leaving law open to the self-expression of its subjects.
He called the scholarly controversy over Locke's remarks on husbands and wives "a sideshow". It denies power to Locke's early feminist ideas, he said.
