Sentence examples for power state from inspiring English sources

China has charged once-powerful former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun with corruption and abuse of power, state media has reported.

In the play of Washington power, State and Defense are, in Kissinger's apt phrase, "institutionally impatient" with each other.

North Korea has executed Kim Jong-un's uncle as a "traitor for all ages" who sought to grab power, state media announced early on Friday morning.

Fiennes describes his version of Rome as a power state, and the Volscians as an older community struggling to retain autonomy.

"Today, our republic's status and role have changed permanently and our status – as a nuclear power state – remains adamant no matter whether one accepts that fact or not".

The implications of that could be especially significant in Texas, the top wind power state, which contains about a fifth of the nation's turbines and is building expensive transmission lines to support more growth.

Yet those changes could require painful, even risky, surgery on the party's limbs of power: state-owned banks, local governments, and companies and investment vehicles controlled by the government.

HONG KONG — Bo Xilai, an ambitious and divisive Chinese politician whose downfall shook the Communist Party elite, will stand trial on Thursday on charges of corruption, taking bribes and abusing power, state-run news media announced Sunday.

Another example comes from Texas, the nation's leading wind-power state and not a particular friend of the environment.

The Pakistani Taliban said this week that it would not attack a nuclear installation, because "Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear-power state".

That sits listening all the time in a lower-power state, so that the phone knows when it gets picked up or moved, for instance.