Sentence examples for powerful getting from inspiring English sources

"It was incredibly powerful getting into costume: it made you identify with the suffragettes in a new way," says Helen. "And when it was all over that night of the opening ceremony, I got up on a table and said to the other volunteers who represented the suffragettes, why don't we keep this group together?

I know that you and us old-school populists still don't agree on some specific economic policies or appointees, but it is good to see that you get what the polls have been showing for a long time now: voters are frustrated with corporate special interests running things and are tired of the wealthy and powerful getting inside deals, even while the economy is hurting.

Yet by and large in liberal democracies the powerful get on by pleasing others.

As a man gets better, gets more successful, gets more powerful, gets to the corner office, everyone likes him better, men and women.

My instincts are to side with the marginalised and the dispossessed; the Tory instinct is all too often to help the powerful get what they want.

The associate countries are discriminated against and even within that boys club there is discrimination among them where basically the powerful get their way and enforce voting by threats, intimidation, under-the-table deals.

"The carried interest loophole represents everyone's worst fear about the tax system — that the rich and powerful get away with murder," says Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who has written about the issue.

Has a history of ambition and plunder by the powerful got so blunted by rising prosperity that it will never repeat itself?

For others, it meant budding careers in politics after years spent watching the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful.

The rich, famous and powerful get to be angry.

Noam Chomsky wrote about how the powerful get their way by setting up arguments over the little questions to stop us asking the big ones.