Sentence examples for power of certain from inspiring English sources

But it demonstrates the power of certain schools as career starting points.

The emotional power of certain parts is of wonderful purity and uplifting strength.

With Charles I at its head, Anglican Protestantism became increasingly ceremonial and High Church, spreading fear of Papist resurgence and increasing the power of certain key bishops.

We have here an important part of the record of a major figure's development, and a rare example of the power of certain family pieties.

With his soulful voice and haunted intelligence, Mr. Irons beautifully conveys the redemptive power of certain compulsions without overlooking what can be ruinous in them.

Dave Frishberg's song "Van Lingle Mungo" invokes, for instance, the incantatory power of certain baseball names, and Annie Dillard does a quick riff on just one, "Wayne Terwilliger".

Alcohol has certain powers of certain therapeutic worth.

(b) which related to powers of certain other agencies.

"Wouldn't you think that you were witnessing some attempt at harnessing the characteristic powers of certain revered birds or animals and incarnating their spirit in human form?

The French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses (1709 77) attempted to explain Greek polytheism partly through the fetishism (belief in the magical powers of certain objects) found in West Africa.

And the United States, I think, to a certain extent, respected the powers of certain countries more than others in the case that we recognized that we don't want to tread on country's toes as, I guess, eagerly as other countries.