Sentence examples for power strikes from inspiring English sources

(Dues give you power; strikes are rare; every one deserves to retire with dignity. You want a direct say in your wages and benefits, don't you?).

In an age when trade union power, strikes and privatisation were seen as issues defining the character of British society, the industrial editor had a lot to report.

I happen to agree with Garrison Keillor, the author and radio personality who wrote of ho-hum Clinton in a recent Washington Post column: "What some people see as a relentless quest for power strikes me as the good habits of a serious Methodist.

Of course, many men and women will experience a dip in their sex drive as they age and some may even have to alter their behavior in order to maintain a healthy sex life, but there is no scheduled moment in time when a higher power strikes you down and says, "That's it, sex is over for you".

The Power struck again 77 seconds later.

The McGovernites, strenuously opposed to the Vietnam War and distrustful of American power, struck more hawkish Democrats as na? about Communism, even isolationist.

I'd been thinking about audio storytelling for quite a while, but that night its power struck me in a new way.

And yet so intensely felt — and intensely fine — are the performances of Laura Linney and Brian d'Arcy James, playing journalists reeling from the trauma of covering the Iraq war, that the play's subtly accumulating power struck me with unexpected force.

Before the U.S. Supreme Court he eloquently but unsuccessfully argued the major constitutional case of Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), in which the court, in accepting the arguments of Daniel Webster and William Wirt based on the federal commerce power, struck down state impediments to interstate commerce.

The king used the marcher lords and the native Welsh to increase his own territory and power, striking a sequence of increasingly precise deals backed by royal military power with the Welsh rulers.

During the recovery stroke, the cilia are recovering from the power strike to the original position by moving in the vicinity of the cell surface.