Sentence examples for power passing from inspiring English sources

And since 1952, various Congresses have exercised that power, passing emergency-power bills that presidents have signed into law.

"Money is 'bad,' " Mr. Phillips speculates, "when a leading world economic power passing its zenith" indulges "in finance at the expense of harvesting, manufacturing, or transporting things".

Following a secretive succession plan sketched out years ago, Mr. Hu has already begun preparing for his departure from power, passing the baton to his presumed successor, a former provincial leader named Xi Jinping, now China's vice president.

In either type of configuration, radio waves are confined to the interior of the tube so as to minimize the loss of the radio-frequency power passing through it.

where α is an index which generally varies between −1 and 0. The value of α is indicative of the nonlinearity of the current-voltage relationship, i.e., α = 0 corresponds to ohmic behavior, and α decreases with increasing nonlinearity of the current-voltage curve; r is a parameter relating to the resistivity of the nanocomposite when the electrical power passing through the sample is 1 W [16].

We assume that the same tag type (and therefore acoustic power) passing over a river receiver line around the same time has the same probability of being detected regardless of the species or population from which the tagged smolts originated (apart from run-timing differences between populations; see below).

And so power passed to America.

The power passed to Super Pacs from the political parties.

Power passed from the governor to whichever political leader from the lower house possessed majority support.

With their defeat, power passed definitively into the hands of townspeople rather than the tribes.

Power passed by osmosis to forge the precious Anglo-American world.