Sentence examples for heightened powers from inspiring English sources

"Dianetics" also promises heightened powers of intelligence and perception.

For all his heightened powers in Trenton, Mr. DiFrancesco faces a challenge in the Republican primary from Bret D. Schundler, the conservative mayor of Jersey City.

Speaking to an audience in Toronto on Tuesday, Snowden pointed to a campaign promise by the Canadian prime minister to amend the sweeping legislation, which gives security forces heightened powers to apprehend suspected terrorists and disrupt their activities.

Harris puts flawed people on a big stage, in fancy clothes, equips them with heightened powers of rhetoric and – lo! – what might otherwise be minor tales and melodramas become bestselling works of political, ethical and social import.

This interisland mission gives Hiiaka, until then a somewhat minor deity, the heightened powers of godhood, including the ability to heal, to give and take life, to conquer demons and master the elements.

(Duterte declared a "state of lawlessness," giving the military heightened powers, but did not suspend habeas corpus).

The rhetoric only toned down after Hollande announced wide-ranging new security legislation, with heightened investigatory powers and a partial overhaul of the constitution which smacked of panic.

Instead it heightened her powers of observation, enabling her to write with a novelist's eye for the psychological detail and an anthropologist's eye for social rituals and routines.

The two companies may be powerful, and combining them will only heighten those powers.

At the heart of the Symbolist theatre was the old romantic concept of the artist as a creative genius with heightened perception and powers.

Drugs are developed to heighten the power, and porn created to fetishise it.