Sentence examples for long-standing power from inspiring English sources

Her latest solo record, "Book of Dreams," is a perfect blend of the secular and Moore's alternately big and intimate sound, which has always been about faith's long-standing power anyway.

High youth unemployment, gerontocracy and wide social divisions elements that led to "Arab spring" uprisings elsewhere are rife but contained by the firm grip of le pouvoir, the country's long-standing power elite.

The long-standing power in the Cuban exile community, the Cuban American National Foundation, and its chairman, Jorge Mas Santos, tried but failed to broker a deal for a more peaceful transfer of Elian.

They are simply disconnected from the real activists and the grass roots organisations... Look at examples from history - any alternative political force trying to unseat a long-standing power would seize on any opportunity to galvanize its political support.

Kuwait's suspension is widely seen as the fallout of a long-standing power struggle involving personal and political differences between members of the country's ruling family at the centre of which is Mr. Ahmad, who is widely viewed as one of world sports' most powerful men.

The Bracks government introduced proportional representation for the Legislative Council and ended the long-standing veto power of the Upper House, invested more in community services, returned some of the trains and trams to public ownership, revised prison privatization, and continued road construction.

Yet change is coming, reckons Callas, pointing to the gradual breaking up of carrier financial monopolies — albeit that's more immediately obvious in certain European markets, such as the U.K., than in the U.S. — as an example of long-standing industry power structures finally shifting in the consumer's favor.

That means reform to correct a long-standing imbalance of power and narrowness of vision.

Meanwhile, in 1990 Habibie was appointed head of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association, and during the 1993 central-board elections of the country's ruling party, Golkar, Habibie helped the children and allies of President Suharto rise to top positions, easing out long-standing military-backed power brokers.

Despite having some of the largest deposits of uranium in the world, Australia has maintained a long-standing opposition to nuclear power and storing radioactive waste from overseas.

Beyond the rarefied world of the avant garde, Antonioni's film was a serious part of a process that effectively dismantled the comfy and long-standing agreements about money, power and prestige in Britain.