Sentence examples for entrusting power from inspiring English sources

The king, instead of entrusting power to an able ultra such as Villèle or a popular one such as Chateaubriand, chose a personal favourite, Jules-Auguste-Armand-Marie, prince de Polignac, a fanatic reactionary.

In book after book, novels and nonfiction alike, Wells hammered home the message that humanity could improve its lot only by entrusting power to a self-selected caste of enlightened technicians, who would rule according to the dictates of science.

Life on Mars is going to be hard enough already without entrusting power to ordinary Martians, who probably aren't going to be any more rational and level-headed than ordinary Earthlings.

It would be much safer, Plato thought, to entrust power to carefully educated guardians.

Germany's president in 1933 was an old general, Hindenburg, who entrusted power to Adolf Hitler.

She entrusted power to her second son, John (the future John VI), who assumed the title of prince regent in 1799, when her condition was deemed incurable.

The public needs to know the true identity of those to whom it entrusts power, whether through the political process or through the economy.

Defining corruption as "the abuse of entrusted power for private gain," Transparency International ranked 180 countries by interviewing experts and business people both inside and outside each country.

The unspoken contract between ruler and subject is that in return for safety, prosperity and prestige, the Russians entrust power and cede democratic freedoms to their leaders.

Reagan ascribed his defection to "the newfangled 'liberals' who rejected" Roosevelt's faith in the wisdom of the American people, and who instead entrusted power to government engineers.

With resistance suppressed, the plan was to entrust power to a Shia clique in Baghdad, tacitly acknowledging Iran's influence, while keeping Tehran surrounded by military bases and crippled by sanctions.