Sentence examples for powerful elements from inspiring English sources

To accumulate power and vanquish your opponents, you need powerful elements of the state — such as the police, the armed forces, senior politicians, and the judiciary — to go along with your designs, or at least to stand aside as you do as you will.

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He was more attentive to the trappings of power than to its substance; and he lost the sympathy of powerful elements by his aloofness at court and by the favours he conferred upon his mignons, a small group of handsome young men with whom he indulged in questionable excesses.

But they contain powerful elements of feminist critique.

Frederick found himself increasingly isolated in Italy and at odds with powerful elements in Germany.

He is aided by two powerful elements: Neal Medlyn's collage-like score and Lenore Doxsee's lushly atmospheric lighting design.

Surely his religious belief, a powerful element in his psychological makeup, was discouraged?

While the wind stayed relatively forceful throughout, another powerful element, Williams' grunt, fluctuated wildly.

Bourdain, in another discussion forum, acknowledged: "There has always been a powerful element of hustler in chefs".

The coincidence of bleak glamour and waifish loveliness with ferocious drive was a powerful element of her allure.

There is a powerful element of poignancy to the settlers' plight and the choice they will have to make.