Sentence examples for lord power from inspiring English sources

Fundamentalists lord power over children, invoking spiritual terms like biblical authority, godly discipline, and instilling a fear of the Lord.

Dear Sir: During my senior year in college, a professor accused our small class of a topology reading seminar of trying to lord power through language.

There are some groups that have leaders that also use the Wiccan religion as a way to lord power over others and puff themselves up by saying they are the High Priestess and they deserve special attention.

I almost laughed at the "lord and master" power pose but managed to hold it.

Wholly predictable, it was coupled with hollow promises to curb the lords' power or the lords themselves, a ploy designed to cover the Treasury's climbdown.

Clifford Krauss MEXICO: DRUG AIDE'S VISIT -- Gen. Barry McCaffrey, President Clinton's top drug adviser, praised Mexico's anti-narcotics efforts, but acknowledged that the drug lords' power to corrupt continues to grow in Mexico and the United States.

As she speechlessly nurses a hoarse throat on this particular day, she appears not to lord this power over anybody, preferring, perhaps, to see it as simply the love and will of God.

While there will be many on the right who seek to use this review as an excuse to lord governmental power over groups and individuals who they wish to pay back after 13 years of Labour control, May and Baroness Neville-Jones are well aware that effective counter-terrorism must go beyond these kind of political games.

The Doctor realises both realities were false since the Dream Lord had power in both and was a manifestation of his darker side.

Instead, his deadly rivals from Cali, Colombia's other major trafficking group, played the decisive role in the destruction of that drug lord's power and support systems, combining well-funded intelligence with bloodthirsty ruthlessness.

On September 19th, in a front-page editorial in Il Corriere della Sera, the political scientist Giovanni Sartori compared Grillo's assault on Italy's "lords of power" to the taking of the Bastille.