Sentence examples for imperious power from inspiring English sources

And even the most hardened commuters would lift their eyes from newspapers and paperbacks as their electric rush-hour trains threaded out from Victoria station and ran past the imperious power station.

Kompany has been culpable in many City defeats, particularly at Liverpool, while Toure's imperious power - despite scoring in the 2-1 defeat at Palace - has dwindled to the point where he has been outmanoeuvred by opponents who would not get near him in his pomp.

Her voice was a treat, in its imperious range and power, especially with the great melody of "Come Sunday".

He seems too imperious about the power of hot-button values issues that have proved so potent for most of his lifetime.

But there was only one real diva onstage: Ms. Franklin, who presented the true diva's combination of a remarkable voice, a commanding presence and a whimsical, imperious assumption of power.

The Etixx-Quick Step rider followed up Saturday's stage win with another imperious display to power home in a sprint finish.

It was a current Juventus player, Andrea Pirlo, who demonstrated his imperious play-making powers at Euro 2012, when Italy, against the background of the corruption investigation that encroached on its preparations, reached the final in July.

It brought home, brutally and abruptly, that the era had passed in which we could impose our will by the imperious use of military power.

But in a news conference in February he said that while Mr. Nasheed may have played an important role in bringing democracy to the Maldives, he failed to live up to democratic ideals by exercising his power in imperious ways.

Cannon, on the other hand, was rough-hewn and imperious, and lost his power because a large number of his own resentful Republicans joined with Democrats to overturn his hegemony.

This goes beyond his corruption, beyond his having been the avatar of an imperious man with political power, even beyond his embarrassing sniveling in court while confessing his sleaze a few months ago.