Sentence examples for power of taking from inspiring English sources

And Ms. Cruz keeps Olive worthy of empathy, even when she feels the ugly power of taking a life.

Our community has engaged in a peaceful revolution by embracing the awesome power of taking matters into our own hands and just doing stuff.

The critics insist that as much as 75percentt of the improvement shown by depressed patients taking antidepressants can be attributed to the "placebo effect," the healing power of taking a pill, and the support patients find in clinical trials.

Even Peter, with time, comes to regard himself in this way: "The compensation of growing old," he thinks, is that "the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained — at last! — the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence, — the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it around, slowly, in the light".

It seems sad that world leaders such as Cameron and Obama, in the midst of a memorial for Mandela, found themselves unable to resist the power of taking a selfie, in order to prove to themselves that they were indeed present at the occasion.

Since the land laws do not avoid completely the possibilities of future land distribution and since government still possesses the power of taking land by way of expropriation, farmers could not feel secure on their holdings.

If he had been seized by security services in Moscow or Tehran, ministers would be accusing foreign powers of taking liberties.

We have to believe in the power of people taking power of their government.

It is an abuse of power to take advantage of their state, and if you are preaching, that's what you are doing.

Hassan II's successor as king, Mohammed VI, fired Basri within three months of taking power.

The election of Bill Clinton in 1992 saddled liberals with the awful burden of taking power seriously.