Sentence examples for power sweeping from inspiring English sources

Pro-Ouattara forces began an offensive late last month to install him in power, sweeping across the country in just days before meeting resistance in Abidjan.

First things first ReprintsIn the 14 months since he marched to power, sweeping away the dying kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko, Mr Kabila has alienated his former friends and allowed the economy to drift from sickness into coma.

The popular protests in Bolivia that forced out President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada last month are the most recent example of a wave of indigenous power sweeping Latin America.

And in "Romanov Riches" he pays homage to them as patrons of the arts and apostles of power, sweeping the reader across 300 years of Russian history from the accession of Czar Mikhail in 1613 to the violent collapse of the imperial world in 1917.

A week ago the former rebel army, now calling itself the Republican Forces, started their descent on Abidjan, still the real seat of power, sweeping all before them in just a few days.But the final assault on the business capital met with fiercer resistance than they had expected.

Speaker after speaker proclaimed a revitalised "socialist revolution", a "new tide of people power" sweeping through Brazil.

China's soaring financial power is sweeping across the market for Chinese art like a hurricane carrying off all that lies in its path.

They still talk about gaming's supposed power, make sweeping equivocations about the value of "engagement" and use flaky reasoning to assert the value of such endeavors.

Many, many cases acknowledge Congress's plenary power (read: sweeping and nearly absolute) under the Commerce Clause.

Now the cross-party Lords Constitution Committee has issued a report accusing the Government of trying to impose "Henry VIII powers" – sweeping legislation scant on detail but giving ministers authority to introduce regulations without any parliamentary scrutiny.

"These are not new powers, they're not sweeping powers, they're powers that are clearly defined," he told reporters.