Sentence examples for has lost its power from inspiring English sources

Republicans are dismissive of these charges, arguing that the Democrats' case is so patently political -- and has been repeated so many times, dating back to the classic 1982 bumper sticker "Save Social Security, Vote Democratic" -- that it has lost its power.

Stranded as we are many miles from the Swiss citadel of canapés and crampons, it is perhaps all to easy to display a certain amount of envy and dissent, but the fact remains that Davos has lost its power - if it ever had any - to truly affect the global agenda.

Ingénue, as a concept and a word, has lost its power because the constructs it upheld have been vigorously undermined for decades.

Because it has been so trivialized, confession has lost its power and vitality.

Negative criticism, he says, has lost its power to wound – "I'm not comfortable with it but I'm numbed to it" – and now he is keen to move on.

These relationships fail because language has lost its power to tell tales.

High up in the set was "Know Your Enemy," a seriously good three-minute singalong by a band that might have lost its power when it ran out of easy cynicism.

Githa Sowerby's struggle as a playwright is now so well documented that it might have lost its power to shock.

In both instances the defence is that hard cases make bad law: once the principle is conceded that the policy can be overridden by force, it will have lost its power altogether.

We couldn't help being pleased to be based in London, where poetry is an accepted and familiar part of life – even if it may have lost its power to shock.

But as much as I've tried to temper the word by softening it with an –a instead of an –er, it doesn't seem to have lost its power over me.