Sentence examples for drained power from inspiring English sources

Lord Heseltine noted that local councils had long had the right to switch to elected mayors, but few had done so - not least because councillors rightly concluded that powerful elected mayors drained power from them.

It failed, just as badly as a similar overhaul at GM a decade earlier.Ford 2000 drained power from the regions back to Dearborn.

The V-12 helped to overcome the increasingly stringent emissions regulations that had drained power from the 6-cylinder Series II of 1968-71.

Britain is suffocatingly centralised, and draining power from Westminster would do it good.

(Electric motors require power only when the steering wheel is turned, whereas a hydraulic pump drains power from the engine all the time).

As power plants in Michigan shut down in quick succession, Michigan started draining power from Ontario, abruptly reversing what had been an outward flow of electricity toward Canada.

Indirectly, better filtering helps reduce the size of a cellphone because lower-quality filtering results in a signal loss that is corrected by more amplification, which drains power.

One evening in March, not long after the crew passed the four-month mark, Martha Lenio checked a wall-mounted iPad in the dome and saw an ominous descending line: the batteries were draining power instead of charging.

Mr. Blumenthal said he was concerned the cable threatens the life of shellfish beds and the navigability of New Haven Harbor, drains power from Connecticut, and threatens to increase electricity costs for Connecticut residents.

However, there is limited evidence on whether this is feasible and questions over what would happen if you needed your car unexpectedly, just when the grid was draining power from it.

To date, the E.P.A.'s familiar "Energy Star" label for the most energy-efficient televisions has been based only on energy consumed while TVs are switched off (when they still drain power).