Sentence examples for obtain powers from inspiring English sources

The sample size was predetermined based on a pilot study of 17 patients, to obtain powers greater than 90%%.

The problems presented by the river below Wilsick House, including shallows and fords at Bramwith and Stainforth, and bridges on the Dutch River that were difficult to navigate, resulted in the proprietors trying again to obtain powers to improve the lower river in 1737, but again the petition was defeated in a parliamentary committee.

"Mae West used her sexuality to obtain power.

Disney described Epcot as a city, in order to obtain power over its planning and zoning.

A grotesque cartoon demagogue using TV and social media to obtain power.

"Indeed, part of the political genius of President Reagan and his associates was to obtain power by discrediting the very idea of government.

Notwithstanding such gains, some opposition members refused to take their seats in Parliament but rather wanted to obtain power through unconstitutional means by using unemployed youth for violence.

He was succeeded on the throne by his son Ajatashatru, who murdered his father to obtain power.

That would make it significantly cheaper to obtain power from new offshore windfarms than from the controversial new nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C, for which subsidies of £92.50 for 35 years had been promised.

We see Johnson - "the greatest one on one salesman that ever lived" - working behind the scenes, first to obtain power over his colleagues as majority leader, and then to use that power.

One high-ranking Hispanic churchman claimed that Father Bergoglio, who was Argentina's senior Jesuit between 1973 and 1979, used his "aura of spirituality to obtain power".