Sentence examples for fading power from inspiring English sources

Reagan's focus was the fading power of the USSR and the ever-turbulent Middle East.

Thereafter, uprisings occurred on a greater or lesser scale almost yearly testimony to the fading power of both the shōen system and the bakufu.

The French do not want to see the UN (and with it the last vestiges of their own fading power) sidelined by the United States.

When I visited, there were plans to turn it into a more critical testament to Stalin's legacy – but it had a great deal of sinister, fading power.

In recognition of the fading power of the mindbomb, Greenpeace have begun pouring funding into new units designed to dig up dirt on their targets.

"It is not a prelude to war but it is a reminder that Russia likes to use - that it is a power to be reckoned with, not a fading power, which might be closer to the reality".

Hugo's novel is partly an account of the archdeacon's perverse attempts to retain his fading powers.

He would certainly bring with him experience transforming also-ran clubs into champions and restoring fading powers to glory.

Both in Shut the Door, Have a Seat and For Immediate Release, where Don conducted a sort of Ealing caper in which he invoked his fading powers to restore the status quo of his own, er, status.

Immortals is urban fantasy done with great panache and intelligence: Brodsky knows her myth, and revels in depicting the erstwhile gods struggling with their fading powers and assuming, with varying degrees of success, the mantle of humanity.

See, I don't think alcohol should be for relaxing, so much as for living larger and not succumbing to low-rent aspirations and fading powers of imagination.