Sentence examples for poisonous power from inspiring English sources

To the conservative magazine the Spectator, he is "the PM's puppet-master", curbing Cameron's more innovative impulses to protect Whitehall's interests; or "'Wormtongue' after Tolkien's poisonous power behind the throne in the Lord of the Rings".

But Ms. Brereton's role as an apartheid spy is but a sidelight in a poisonous battle for power between Mr. Mbeki's deputy president, Jacob Zuma, and the national prosecutor, Bulelani Ngcuka.

It turned poisonous as his powers drained away and African-American successors began to appear on the horizon.

The policy of parachuting in candidates from Westminster to a safe party seat somewhere so that that person is essentially guaranteed power is poisonous.

Lisa P. Jackson, the agency's administrator, said control of dozens of poisonous substances emitted by power plants was long overdue and would prevent thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of cases of disease a year.

Recent state election campaigns have been marked not by communal antagonism, but voters' mature disgruntlement over bad and corrupt government, pot-holed roads, poisonous water and meagre power supplies.

In many of these cases, staff and supervisors are alleged to have looked the other way in what amounts to a poisonous environment of privilege, power, and shame.

With the world's attention fixated across the Mediterranean on the spiraling Syrian conflict, the efforts of Libya's elected leaders to rehabilitate their nation have been stung by the poisonous barb of militia power-politics.

But the power of a poisonous legacy does not afflict Labour alone.

Clever language without real answers is a vacuous power play, and poisonous to real political change.

I would argue this stems from a poisonous mix of unchallenged sexism, unaccountable power and an archaic military justice system.