Sentence examples for power upon from inspiring English sources
The phrase "power upon" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to describe a situation where one has authority or control over someone or something. Example: The new CEO was granted great power upon his arrival at the company, and quickly made changes to improve its profitability.
In Göring's words and demeanor one glimpses that hard-edged, ruthless will to power upon which Nazism depended.
Melville spoke of Cooper's novels as being the first to produce "a vivid, and awakening power upon my mind".
"No part of the world exerts the same attractive power upon the visitor," he writes in The Marquesas.
It would also not be possible to confer a power upon a domestic intelligence agency that could be used to detain and coercively question non-suspect citizens.
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911) The passage of time has conferred a dark power upon Beerbohm's ostensibly light and witty Edwardian satire.
When the Whigs came to power upon the accession of King George I, Stanhope was appointed secretary of state for the south.
Öz Beg based his power upon firm control of Crimea and had extensive relations with the Genoese and Venetians, who controlled the main ports there.
His book, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History", was self-fulfilling, helping sea power shape history, though not for the better.
The classic exposition of the role of sea power as the basis of national power and greatness was Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660 1783 (1660 1783
The school gained international recognition when Luce's successor, Alfred Thayer Mahan, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660 1783 in 1890.
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a member of the Navy War Board and leading U.S. strategic thinker, wrote a book titled The Influence of Sea Power upon History in which he argued for the creation of a large and powerful navy modeled after the British Royal Navy.
