Sentence examples for powers in the service of from inspiring English sources
The Grisha are an intriguing creation: a breed of magician-scientist-soldiers wielding tangible powers in the service of the realm.
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Sarah Ferguson said its dystopian tale of a near future of no electricity, plummeting fertility and nannies armed with Glock handguns to stave off child abductors put Mr. Bowman's literary powers in the service of "a strangely pointless exercise in perversion".
And Mr. Putin has harnessed that power in the service of aggressive nationalism.
Both used power in the service of higher ideas, which are engraved nearby on the walls.
"Unity does not mean uniformity," said Francis, as he decried "uniform systems of economic power in the service of unseen empires".
It is the post-Cold-War city par excellence, a vibrant demonstration of how American power in the service of its values can advance freedom.
SINCE 9/11, Judge Richard Posner has been a strong proponent of redrawing legal lines to allow for greater executive power in the service of aggressively responding to terrorist threats.
In his 1966 book, "The Obligations of Power: American Diplomacy in the Search for Peace Harperer & Row), he wrote that "the object of American foreign policy is to place our power in the service of a world of diversity".
Last fall, President Bush declared that Washington had learned the folly of accommodating Middle East dictatorships in the name of stability and that America would start putting its power in the service of democratic values throughout the region.
It is discouraging to many of us to see Vatican II threads increasingly unwound as the pope asserts his and his Curia's power in the service of an ancien régime.
Nowhere will that be more evident than on Sunday, when Mr. Bush goes to the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, overlooking Omaha Beach, to talk as commander in chief about how the United States uses its military power in the service of its ideals.
