Sentence examples for myriad powers from inspiring English sources

He reflected on the myriad powers that have come and gone in the Fertile Crescent: Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, Europeans, Saddam's Baathists.

Germany has an astonishing capacity to rise to big occasions, such as unification; but in ordinary times it seeks consensus among myriad power centres, which makes progress slow, if it happens at all.

WEST WARWICK, R.I. — There is a striking, if scrappy, shrine here, where dozens of homemade crosses rise behind a corroded parking lot, set back from a thin state highway ridged with strip malls and myriad power lines.

The latest attempts at national dialogue a UN proposal to bring Libya's myriad power-brokers round a table foundered before last month's general election; the new parliament is due to hold its opening session on August 1st.

He was talking about the wars that embroiled myriad European powers and principalities from 1618 to 1648 in struggles over religion, territory and politics, so protracted that peace negotiations alone took four years.

The Constitution also gives the Congress myriad other powers, among them, "to regulate commerce with foreign nations," "to promote the progress of science and useful arts," and "to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas".

What is largely agreed upon as its most significant milestone was the attempted eviction by myriad police powers between 1989 and 1994.

Where there was one megalomaniac in power, there is now a myriad of power-brokers.

It is uncertain, in any case, whether Libya's myriad armed power-brokers will accept the election's results.

The first Green Cell slide presented the problem: the seemingly endless array of chargers required to power up the myriad battery types that power all of our gizmos.

By midnight the auditorium was cleared, the shelter's residents were crammed into hallways and rooms with double roofs and workers were searching for extension cords to power myriad medical devices.