Sentence examples for power and practice from inspiring English sources

Sweeping conceptual breakthroughs don't come along very often, and foreign-policy makers tend to be thinker-practitioners (They think when their party is out of power, and practice when it's in).

Natural law theory accepts that law can be considered and spoken of both as a sheer social fact of power and practice, and as a set of reasons for action that can be and often are sound as reasons and therefore normative for reasonable people addressed by them.

In 1844, Smith and the Nauvoo city council angered non-Mormons by destroying a newspaper that had criticized Smith's power and practice of polygamy.

Live Model Sketching for the Family (Saturday) Children are invited to discover the power and practices of drawing in this program at the Morgan Library & Museum, which is participating in the Smithsonian Magazine's day of free sponsorship.

To increase power and endurance, practice an effective exercise regimen.

"There is a huge amount of looking going on by Chinese companies," says Simon Wilde of Macquarie Capital's European power and utilities practice.

Tony Ward, who heads Ernst & Young's power and utility practice in London, agrees that the current crisis will focus new attention on wind and solar power, particularly in China, which has already heavily invested in renewable energy technologies.

Lerner suggests that prostitutes and concubines were used by rulers as symbols of wealth and power, and this practice was then emulated by other men of wealth and status (Lerner 1986, 133).

John McConomy, who runs PricewaterhouseCoopers' U.S. power and utilities practice, sees a likelihood of a lot more deals like these, although he cautions that the volatility of fuel prices and the involvement of newly invigorated regulators will stymie some plans.

The question of the relationship between a person's act of nembutsu and Amida Buddha's Other Power or between trust in Amida's vow, which infuses each human act of nembutsu with Other Power, and the practice of the nembutsu, which has been devised and made efficacious for beings by the Buddha raises profound questions concerning the sources and significance of human subjectivity and agency.

"Joyce Fletcher described her work with a group of engineers - mostly men - in her book Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work.