Sentence examples for exerted a power from inspiring English sources

The wife of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia, told her mother that she did not share her concerns about improving the rights of women, because wives already exerted "a power which no king or conqueror can cope with".

It is also clear, however, that both the permit tax and the franchise tax exerted a power which the state undoubtedly possessed, that is, the authority to control the doing of business within the state by a foreign corporation and the right to tax the intrastate business of such corporation carried on as the result of permission to come in.

The sole contention, then, upon which the acts can be sustained is that although they exerted a power which could not be called into play consistently with the Constitution of the United States, they were yet valid because they also exercised an intrinsically local power.

"Many of my childhood memories are of metals: these seemed to exert a power on me from the start".

Snow exerts a power over everybody, and books on snow have a natural allure, crossing, I would guess, all latitudes.

Like all great artists, he exerts a power that his successors must struggle with; he is influential, even decisive — and inimitable.

They responded to the situation with compassion and determination, exerting a power far greater than the fury of the tsunami's black waters".

To the Tenth Amendment, because the necessary operation and effect of the acts is to destroy the oleomargarine industry and thus exert a power not delegated to Congress, but reserved to the several States.

Such decisions, Dr. Earls has shown, exert a power over a neighborhood's crime rate strong enough to overcome the far better known influences of race, income, family and individual temperament.

They responded to the situation with compassion and determination, exerting a power far greater than the fury of the tsunami's black waters". Price's show is a tribute to their spirit.

The making of art is inherently less dramatic than the making of history, and the Paris Commune exerts a power that John Singer Sergeant's painting of Madame Gautreau or Saint-Gaudens's casting of Admiral Farragut may not.