Sentence examples for language of power from inspiring English sources

English was perceived as the language of power, Gaelic as the language of poverty.

Casts led by Harriet Walter claim a language of power in word and fraught movement.

He was a hardheaded idealist, convinced that perpetrators of genocide respond only to the language of power.

But here, too, the staff struggles with the dominance of Hebrew, the language of power and advancement in Israel.

What he wants to address here is the interaction between blacks and whites, and the commonplace language of power and subjugation.

It is used in the media, in academia and in government and is seen as the language of power, prestige and aspiration.

Translated into the language of presidential power -- the power of a president whose method was to field a "team of rivals" and "lead from behind" -- the motto must mean: by their appointments shall ye know them.

Yet we still lack a language of sufficient power and force to make the case, either politically or culturally.

In an effort to bypass this often confusing debate, however, Pettit has recently proposed dropping the traditional language of arbitrary power altogether: instead, we should properly concern ourselves with powers of interference that are "uncontrolled" (2012, 58).

His lyricism and originality are expressed in a fresh, unpolished language of great power and flexibility.

Desperately seeking to deny the horror that has befallen them, they loot language of its power to represent fact.