Sentence examples for power to join from inspiring English sources

The rising crushed, however, Pompey refused to disband his army, which he used to bring pressure on the Senate to send him with proconsular power to join Metellus Pius in Spain against the Marian leader Sertorius.

Thus, it's up to you and your party whether you want to start the ad war arms race; you have the power to join me in banning soft money.

Sim said: "It has never been more important to act on climate change, and health professionals and policy makers should be doing everything in their power to join the dots in the public's mind between the environment and health.

Instead of being the last Great Power to join a fight (and thus coming in fresh and strong), it assumed the opposite role: It would place its forces in the front line, along the newly expanded borders of insecurity — Berlin, the Mediterranean, Korea, Southeast Asia.

WASHINGTON — Flush with victory built on incursions in the South and West, Congressional Democratic leaders promised to use their new power to join President-elect Barack Obama in pursuing an aggressive agenda that puts top priority on the economy, health care, energy and ending the Iraq war.

"When people say things like what my former pastor said, you have to speak our forcefully against them, but what you have to also do is to remember what Bobby Kennedy said that it is within our power to join together to truly make a United States of America".

"We must do the hard work to get the world's major political powers to join in this mission," he said.

Since intervening in Syria last fall, he has repeatedly invited Western powers to join him in a grand coalition to fight extremists.

Ed Miliband got up to ask for a guarantee from the prime minister that he would not use the prerogative powers to join action regardless of the wishes of parliament.

Secretary of State Dulles thinks we should not flinch at doing anything to prevent a Communist victory, even to committing our own forces to the conflict, and to doing it alone, if he fails in his current effort to persuade European and Asiatic powers to join us in "united action".

Secretary of State Dulles thinks we should not flinch at doing anything to prevent a Communist victory, even to committing our own forces to the conflict, and to doing it alone, if he fails in his current effort to persuade European and Asiatic powers to join us in "united action".