Sentence examples for exercise of real power from inspiring English sources

This Pope is modelling the humane exercise of real power, the responsible action of global citizenship.

Nixon is glowering, serious and suspicious, but with a wily charm and the easy, slow-moving gait of a man accustomed to the exercise of real power.

The mistake that many make is to confuse the trappings of symbolic power with the exercise of real power.

Why should men of real power bother?

The handover of real power is a raw moment.

But his days of real power were gone.

Was he possessed of real powers of healing?

In the telling of some experts, the elections that will determine who occupies the European parliament tend to be more of a pageant than an exercise in real power.

It seems strange to mention her at all since she doesn't exercise any real power.

But what the Google and Wikipedia blackout showed is that it's the platforms that exercise the real power.

In Castile, after the failed revolt of the townsmen known as comuneros (1520 21), the hidalgos (lower nobility) were the only surviving force in the Cortes, and even they ceased to exercise much real power.