Sentence examples for muscle power rather from inspiring English sources

Later in the afternoon, the day's final workout focused on muscle power rather than lung power, featuring drills with parachutes, fins, paddles, kick boards, floats, limb-disabling bands, snorkels and other accouterments designed to isolate particular skills.

Even so, it was hardly an overwhelming qualifying campaign, and Poland were not considered much of a threat when the tournament began – "In their preparations for the World Cup," the Guardian reported, "Poland lacked speed and several observers felt that they were resorting increasingly to muscle power rather than technical talents".

The test has been widely used in measuring clinically significant changes in mobility in older frail people and tests explosive muscle power rather than endurance.

This was the first punch with electric power; holes are punched by electromagnets rather than muscle power, at a great reduction in operator fatigue.

In the second half of the twentieth century, many of those towns all but evaporated as the industry turned to strip mining, a mechanized process that uses heavy machinery rather than muscle power to carve away rock and expose seams of coal running along hillsides.

Increasingly, America's competitive advantage appears to lie with its brainpower and perhaps its star power, rather than its industrial muscle.

He is an excessively muscle-bound lump who has momentum and power rather than speed or mobility.

Unlike most birds, blackbirds have muscles that allow them to open their bill with power, rather than only close it with power.

The American debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan were the result of the Americans misusing their immense power, rather than of al‑Qaida flexing its miniature muscles.

What's lacking isn't brain power, but muscle power.

"Nearly everything was done by muscle power," Ambrose writes.