Sentence examples for power preferred from inspiring English sources

Reading the roll of honour-refusers, one begins to understand why those in power preferred to keep it under wraps.

Germany's renewable-energy law has boosted green sources through guaranteed high prices for renewable power, preferred access for renewables to the grid and easier financing, from a tax on electricity bills.

The reason those with power prefer law to brute force is that it regularizes and legitimates the exercise of authority.

Those fearful of resurgence of Russian power prefer the surly stagnation of what would come to be called Putinism.

Five years ago China had almost no domestic solar power, preferring instead to export almost all of its production.

She worries about giving one person too much power, preferring rule by a group.When it comes to attitudes to elected city bosses, the dividing line is not a neat one between left and right.

Mr. Greenspan was not inclined to use that power, preferring to adhere to a silly notion, shared apparently by the Treasury Department and by federal securities regulators, that market discipline would always and everywhere keep lenders — and the bankers who created derivatives based on the loans — in line.

Furthermore, they found out that the retailer with a higher bargaining power prefers the wholesale price contract.

Germany's Green party politicians don't like coal and nuclear power, preferring that the country run on relatively clean-burning natural gas.

Underwater Acoustic Networks (UANs), where most of the nodes operate on battery power, prefer topology-based routing metrics over active probing based routing metrics.

Unfortunately, incumbent President Bashar al-Assad wasn't too keen on the idea of relinquishing power, preferring instead to have his army start shooting the protesters dead.