Sentence examples for eternal power from inspiring English sources

(Ainra means eternal power in Swahili).

Mormons define the priesthood as "the eternal power and authority of God".

Flashbacks show the ancient grudges and alliances that make the present situation seem inevitable, part of an eternal power struggle.

Isn't the life of a single child worth sacrificing all gains, spoils and illusions of eternal power?

NICHOLAS LEMANN: I think the reform narrative is so popular more because of the eternal power of narrative than because of anything particular to education.

Temporal and eternal power can be unified under one catholic theological and political authority with the avowed aim of assuring universal happiness, harmony and unity.

When Gov. Eliot Spitzer took office 14 months ago, he seemed poised to upend the capital's eternal powers-that-be, pledging that on "Day 1, everything changes". But Mr. Spitzer's confrontational, sometimes bellicose manner antagonized his opponents and alienated his allies; his sweeping electoral mandate dissipated month by month, a victim of the governor's mistakes and oversteps.

He notes that God too has eternal powers, namely to know or will without beginning, and that the difficulties confronting the eternal powers of propositions also confront the eternal powers of God.

In fact, Grosseteste explains the eternal powers of propositions in terms of God's eternal powers to know and will propositions, effectively grounding non-temporal modality in God's powers or lack thereof (in the case of necessity and impossibility).

The difficulties facing the notion of eternal powers stem from the idea that there are unexercised but nonetheless genuine eternal powers, as Grosseteste's account of non-temporal contingency seems to require.

The notion of unexercised eternal powers also faces the difficulty that unexercised powers appear to be powers for future acts and, if genuine, can be exercised in the future.