Sentence examples for lease of power from inspiring English sources

The Unionists won the "khaki election" of 1900 (which took its name from the uniforms of the British army, a reflection of its occurrence in the middle of the war) and secured a new lease of power for nearly six years, but their unity also was threatened after the Peace of Vereeniging, which ended the war in May 1902.

The struggle had given Marlborough a final lease of power but it was a Whig victory, and he had to a large extent lost his hold on the Queen.

The new lease on power of Mr. Chávez, a former army paratrooper and coup plotter, is a pivotal event in a country that has been roiled by protests since he first won election in 1998 promising to overturn the old social order, ease life for the poor and punish the corrupt elite the president's followers said plundered this country.

ONE of the longest leases on power in the post-war era looks likely to end on August 30th.

JTC's exercise of power to lease land was a private act as it "was not something a private individual would not be capable of doing".

It successfully sued the Dept. of the Interior to have it consider alternative sources of power before leasing lands for oil drilling off the shores of Louisiana & Texas.

One of the oldest operational power stations in the world is set to have a new lease of life generating low carbon power for the Tube network.

Money damages could be the only result, because a neighbor is not in the same position of power as a landlord to terminate a lease.

If it wasn't for that, the lease payments would've been more than the current cost of power.

"There's a lot of power in giving someone's livelihood a new lease of life in that way".

Just a year ago, the owners of New York's most coveted retail and restaurant spaces held a lot of power to dictate the terms of their leases.