Sentence examples for power rested from inspiring English sources
But the accession of his sister, Joan II (1414 35), inexperienced and childless (that is to say, without obvious heirs), brought a renewal of anarchy to the Neapolitan kingdom, in which true power rested not with the monarchy but with a few powerful owners of vast estates (latifundia) who were allied to the monarchy through blood or service.
Jones's power rested on two things.
Under Mr Suharto, supreme power rested with parliament in theory and with the president in practice.
Despite this enlargement of his domain, Eumenes realized that his power rested on Roman might.
As such, Malta reverted to a strictly colonial regime in which full power rested in the hands of the governor.
Governmental power rested with tribal chiefs, and Chinese settlers penetrated only the eastern parts of the province.
That access is powerful, and I was squandering my power, resting in the comfortable.
ACROSS America, political power rests on a knife-edge.
His power rests in storytelling; he travels through human dreams.
As it stands now, the power rests with Goodell.
But that economic power rests on one resource: oil.
