Sentence examples for powers as one from inspiring English sources

In this week's Drapers Record, Williamson cites Tillman's persuasive powers as one of the decisive factors in his return.

Russia's Constitution and electoral law allow parties to nominate candidates for the legislature who are not party members, but the Constitution also requires a separation of powers as one of its fundamental principles.

Russia, with the backing of China, has been seen by western powers as one of the main stumbling blocks in the efforts to bring to an end a conflict that has claimed more than 15,000 lives.

Two of those three even feature a child with destructive telekinetic powers as one of the main plot points.

That is a reasonable desire: implicit in the logic of devolved government is the idea of different priorities, in spending and taxation, in different parts of the same country, so long as everyone enjoys minimum standards.Critics of devolution see the granting of tax powers as one more step towards separation, and Scottish independence is certainly a possible outcome.

But imagine yielding to the "superior dominion of the sovereign power" (as one online dictionary describes government officialdom), and accepting compensation for your loss, only to discover that the "sovereign power" merely preferred to install a big-box store on Main Street, on a giant site that once housed your business as well as many others.

But Mr. Sokol says "there was not as much pricing power as one would have thought".

I have become resigned to the Harry Potter movies having only as much interest and power as one of the rides in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park.

I'm slightly embarrassed I am in a position of relative power as one of the decision makers and things haven't changed.

The U.N.'s most powerful body, the Security Council, has been blocked from taking any action because Russia, has veto power as one of its five permanent members.

It was the political impact of her work that she valued most, as when Hugo Chávez's government in Venezuela adopted challenging geometries of power as one of the motors of its Bolivarian Revolution.