Sentence examples for power survive from inspiring English sources

Can the residual normative energies and ongoing practices of a liberal democracy — the subsidiary arrangements and independent centers of power — survive a new ruling class uncomprehending of that democracy's basic premises?

Given these dynamics, Major Murphy said, the chart is "a living, breathing document" that every day brings into clearer focus the complex family, tribal and functional connections that Mr. Hussein used to stay in power, survive when ousted, and, apparently, help direct the insurgency while at large.

In China, Communist power survived, but Communist ideology crumbled.

Remnants of this ecclesiastical power survived until 1891, when the episcopal burgh was incorporated with New Aberdeen to form the present city.

Mr. Ahern, who faced his first no-confidence vote after a decade in power, survived the motion put forth by Fine Gael, the largest opposition party, in Parliament.

In spite of the decline of the civilization of antiquity in the West, the Greco-Roman sense of purpose, of the rule of law, and of the responsibility of power survived in Christian form.

Even before the weekend's confrontations, the Obama administration had begun to publicly caution Egyptian military commanders, longtime American allies and beneficiaries whose power survived Mr. Mubarak's departure, that they could not continue to cling to political control.

Firms routinely employ thousands of workers and move billions of dollars-worth of goods and services within their borders.Why have these "islands of conscious power" survived in the surrounding "ocean of unconscious co-operation", to borrow a phrase from D.H. Robertson, an economist?

That would mean they could use much less power, surviving on energy harvested from the environment (see the third article in this series).

Treaties of republican Rome with foreign powers survive merely in the works of literary historians.

But he deviates from Avicenna in that the forms of the elements are not preserved; they are only virtually present in the compound, in that their powers survive (De mixtione elementorum, cf. Summa theol. Ia q. 76 a. 4).