Sentence examples for only real power from inspiring English sources

The only real power you have with these organisations is withholding your money.

The judges' only real power is the power to say no.

His only real power is seduction, while the "butcher" Warren represents America's idealized man — emotionally distant, tough, decisive.

His threatening to quit may seem extreme, but when seeking higher pay, the only real power an individual employee has is the freedom to withdraw his services.

Its only real power comes if the mayor dies or resigns; the public advocate takes over until an election can be held in a few months.

Pomare had overseen the annexation of Tahiti as a French territory, and his death left the French as the only real power there.

The only "real necessary power" for running the system is the power required by the electrodialysis technology to separate the ions of salt from the rest of the water, Winter says.

The recent Israeli military operations were an exercise in showing the Palestinians not only the real power of the Israeli Army, but also the fact that Israeli commandos and reservists were ready to fight house to house in Palestinian refugee camps to protect their state.

This method changes only the real power of DG satisfying the condition of unity power factor and also only at one DG unlike other positive feedback techniques [56].

But President Emile Lahoud, annointed by Syria, which for a decade has been the only real political power here, appears determined, somehow, to block Mr. Hariri from regaining the office he held from 1992 to 1998.

But beyond expressions of public reproach, the only real political power the queen possessed — the right to appoint the individuals charged with forming a new government — was recently taken from her by parliamentary decree; she played no role whatsoever in the formation of the latest Dutch cabinet.