Sentence examples for power inscribed from inspiring English sources

ON THE SCREEN -- The advertisement opens with children filing into a school, the words "Knowledge is Power" inscribed over the entrance.

Each student at the Community Center received a black backpack with the words "knowledge is power" inscribed below Stoudemire's signature.

Their language was first written when Darius commanded that a script suitable for this purpose be invented so that he might inscribe the record of his rise to power at Bīsotūn (the inscriptions in Old Persian attributed to earlier kings were likely written during the reign of Darius or are later historical forgeries).

At the museum of the Temple of Tranquil Seas in Nanjing, the site of the signing of one of the most unequal of China's treaties with foreign powers, is inscribed this phrase: "To feel shame is to approach courage".

The reference astonished Ghosh because of its medieval date, "when the only people for whom we can even begin to imagine properly human, individual existences are the literate and the consequential... the people who had the power to inscribe themselves physically upon time".

In Egypt the magic formulas originally recited over amulets to give them their power were eventually inscribed and worn themselves.

PARIS — As battles surged and ebbed, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi once again displayed the resolve that has kept him in power since 1969 and inscribed his name bloodily in the annals of survival.

By unravelling the relations of power that are inscribed in the urbanization of nature (Swyngedouw, 2004), we question the perceived wisdoms of contemporary water policy debates, particularly the notion of a natural scarcity that merits a technical or economic response.

He prefers paper inscribed with Korean characters.

Through drawing and quartering, beheading, shooting or hanging, the state inscribed its power on the body of the convict and provided a lesson in the perils of disobedience.

Aesthetic ideologies that would remove art from its relations with the world disguise its ability to inscribe and to reinforce power relations.