Sentence examples for lingering power from inspiring English sources

But the lingering power shortages will be widespread, he said.

Certainly, the neighborhood held a lingering power for him.

But others saw it as depressing evidence of the lingering power of political dynasties.

Mr. Hedl ascribed that to the lingering power of Croatian nationalists.

The wave of closings points to the lingering power of the recession more than a year after its official end.

The shared fun of "Sharknado" on Thursday night was a reminder of the lingering power of live television.

Congress backed down, establishing a precedent suggesting that former presidents wield lingering powers to keep matters from their administration secret.

Ms. Testud's performance, which earned her a César, the French Oscar, for most promising actress, is the source of the movie's lingering, troubling power.

To which Trond's daughter provides a dreamy, anguished commentary that mobilizes all of Petterson's lingering, sidling power: I always thought those opening lines were a bit scary because they indicated we would not necessarily be the leading characters of our own lives.

It's also important to realize that despite the late date of their arrival in English, "More Stories From My Father's Court" has a freshness and immediacy that makes it not merely delightful reading but that gives the best of these autobiographical stories a lingering, uncanny power.

Robinson and his long-suffering companion were now employed to investigate "the problem of England", which seemed initially to consist in the fact that lingering geopolitical power and recent economic recovery could not save the country from fatal nostalgia and decrepitude, resentment in the face of modernity and a generally ruinous attitude to culture and sex.