Sentence examples for power to represent from inspiring English sources

In 1647, the Levellers, hoping to remedy this small defect, drafted "An Agreement of the People," with the idea that every freeman would assent to it, granting to his representatives the power to represent him.

This is the power to represent the people of Scotland.

Desperately seeking to deny the horror that has befallen them, they loot language of its power to represent fact.

It sounds as though she is thinking of blood's power to represent violence, destiny, guilt, consanguinity or sacrifice.

Moreover, this being the 1970s, there was not enough computing power to represent more than one household or business at a time.

As he talks passionately about Versus, it becomes clear what excites Anderson most about clothes is their status as objects, their totemic power to represent a moment and mood in fashion.

The United Nations expects all the world's major powers to be represented at the summit meeting, and will make an effort to limit their formal speeches to five minutes each, with unlimited time for more informal talking later.

And in places where people have grabbed power claiming to represent the poor (Venezuela, Bolivia), the first result has often been swingeing taxes on land or raw materials.

In particular, art seems to have the power both to represent reality and to express emotion, and some argue that it is through appreciating the properties of representation and expression that we recognize the meaning of art.

It will take the collective work of Philadelphians and those who are in power fighting to represent us.

Trump came to power promising to represent marginalized, hard-working voters, which is exactly what Erdogan did in 2002, when the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, he co-founded first came to power.