Sentence examples for power overturning from inspiring English sources

The God of Paul's confession is about the work of using the worst the empire can do to overturn its so-called power, overturning it not with force but with the power of weeping women, terrified disciples and a moaning body on a Roman cross.

Tells how these societies have seen their political and military power overturned by invaders and have also experienced a challenge to the norms of those societies themselves.

Leftist intellectuals who had come of age in the sixties began to write about laughter as an anarchic force, overturning power by making it seem ridiculous.

Following the prostitution ruling, Jason Kenney, the employment minister, said "the judiciary should be restrained at the exercise of judicial power in overturning a democratic consensus".

Last week I was on a left-leaning radio talk show whose host suddenly went on a riff about how the Constitution doesn't really give the Supreme Court the power to overturn laws for being unconstitutional, and it shouldn't have that power.

Barry Appleton, a Canadian trade lawyer involved in several claims before Nafta tribunals, said critics were so driven by their opposition to globalization that they were overstating the power of the tribunals, which he contends are nothing more than dispute-resolution panels with no power to overturn any laws.

Madison favored granting Congress the power to overturn state laws.

(The order suspending the constitution also gives the general the power to overturn court decisions).

Even if he wins, Strasbourg has no power to overturn Yam's conviction.

The World Trade Organization does not have the power to overturn an act of Congress.

Mr. Obama has no power to overturn the Dickey-Wicker ban.