Sentence examples for great power over from inspiring English sources
"They have great power over political opinion.
He exercised great power over Poland.
Physicians are granted great power over the lives of others.
It was obvious to both men that poets wielded great power over others.
Lucy's cousin Aurelia, who had exerted a great power over her, had died recently.
They accidentally found themselves in a position of great power over others.
A modern president, for better and worse, often possesses great powers over peace and war and life and death, not to mention the impact of major economic decisions.
As a connoisseur of the fall and rise of great powers over the millennia, Kissinger has remained fascinated with China as with nowhere else.
The Spaak report foresaw a European Commission, on the lines of the High Authority of the Coal and Steel Community, which would execute the treaty and enjoy great powers over governments.
Its case has been lost amid squabbling by the great powers over who exactly constitutes the legitimate voice, with Russia seeking to choose the negotiating parties (a delegation suggested by the Kremlin appears more likely to submit to the regime's will).
Ever since the expanding Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire had come into contact in the mid-1st century BC, there had been friction between the two great powers over the control of the various states lying between them.
