Sentence examples for drastic power from inspiring English sources

"Prostitution, like paedophilia, is characterised not by equality, but drastic power imbalances," she recently wrote in Die Zeit.

History does not encourage reliance on the wisdom and moderation of the censor as a safeguard in the exercise of such drastic power over the minds of men.

Whatever differences the potentially drastic power of courts to punish for contempt may have evoked, a doubt has never been uttered that stubborn disobedience of the duty to answer relevant inquiries in a judicial proceeding brings into force the power of the federal courts to punish for contempt.

This way, the proposed method firstly can capture the transitions very effectively, and secondly, false alarms due to drastic power fluctuations caused by fading are eliminated automatically.

The resulting optimal power consumptions for each limit are plotted in Fig. 4. For instruction memory, a split memory configuration of only two instances already causes a drastic power reduction (80.5 % for IP reassembly, 67.6 % on average).

Such a rule carries out what must have been the statutory intent and would permit a timely and reasonable measure of judicial control over administrative use of the drastic subpoena power, subject to prompt review if the control were abused to the detriment of the agency.

All three have seemed insincere; offering drastic new powers at the last moment, when some Scots have already cast their postal votes.

However, due to the increasing effects of greenhouse gases and the drastic consumption of power, port-cost and power-consumption savings are becoming the new and twin objectives to further develop hybrid hierarchical optical networks.

General Bonaparte, however, advocated a more drastic concentration of power.

There has not in living memory been such a drastic requisition of power by the legislature.

For both writers, smallness implied a drastic aversion to power, the exercise of it as well as submission to it.