Sentence examples for formal power from inspiring English sources

It drove the Taliban from formal power.

They advertise painting's supreme capacity to invest mental disorder with formal power.

The presidential office has little formal power, but it has significant potential to mobilise public opinion.

First, its formal power seems inconceivable without the benefit of Picasso's provocative innovations in "Harlequin".

A lot of Christianity's formal power survives precisely because it is hardly exercised.

They also have no formal power to punish, subpoena or collect evidence.

[The Queen] may not have any actual formal power, but she has a lot of influence.

And the Lib Dems were denied even the prospect of formal power.

The president's bioethics adviser has no formal power over the National Institutes of Health's budget.

It was started by people low down who lacked any kind of formal power.

As a constitutional monarch, her formal power was limited, but she nonetheless exercised considerable political influence.