Sentence examples for mark of power from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — The president's elderly stepgrandmother brought him an oxtail fly whisk, a mark of power at home in Kenya.

Coping with these schedule demands is considered part of the social obligations of citizenship, and the ability to set the schedule is a mark of power.

In societies marked by dietary scarcity — which is to say in practically any period before the twentieth century and in practically any present-day country outside the developed world — bodily bulk functions as a visible mark of power, affluence, and even good humor.

Once the site of a castle had been selected – whether a strategic position or one intended to dominate the landscape as a mark of power – the building material had to be selected.

So now Gates is careful to be the one who holds the door for others, rather than scooting through it, to relax in meetings, because doing so conveys authority, and to speak far more slowly, a mark of power.

After that, displaying a mirror was a mark of refinement, power, wealth and self-confidence.

All this was music to the ears of the Thatcherites, who were at the high water mark of their power when Coleman's book appeared.

Pritchard wants to reverse this judgment, or at least to appeal the case on the grounds that Updike's self-absorption is both a "mark of aesthetic power" and the sine qua non for "book after book full of artistic, human satisfaction".

Ward's ascension to the microphone, a blue-collar voice at an affair so obsessively devoted to the Pashmina, was a mark of the power he had wielded over the entire process.

It's a mark of her power and the celebrity status she's achieved by being one of the hardest-working people in music.

There would be expected to be some increase in homozygotes among cases, but in fact compound heterozygotes would occur more often than homozygotes, and any method which considered each variant individually, without evaluating the extent to which different variants co-occurred in the same subject, would have marked loss of power.