Sentence examples for powers of the sort from inspiring English sources

Searle himself was vague about what extra ingredients it would take to make a machine conscious: all he proposed was that what was needed was "causal powers" of the sort that the brain has and that computers lack.

Market power, of the sort conveyed by licences or regulation, tends to erode over time.

But these numbers may take a long time to translate into political power of the sort that Latinos enjoy in California and Texas.

Wave power, of the sort Finavera is pursuing, entails using the up and down motions of the waves to generate electricity.

The target was not an American embassy, military outpost or financial institution that would represent American power, of the sort that terrorists have attacked in the past.

The Constitution, we said, does not tolerate reasoning that would “convert congressional authority under the Commerce Clause to a general police power of the sort retained by the States.” Id., at 567.

That is, unless Congress’ aim is really to exercise police power of the sort reserved to the States in order to eliminate even the intrastate possession and use of marijuana.

Research by Boston University Professor Marshall Van Alstyne points out the power of the sort of platforms that were built in the connected and interconnected eras.

He said Myners believed that the only way to save the group was to hand over power "to the sort of people that sit on the boards of the country's largest private retail companies".

Dictatorship is the triumph of kitsch, as Ryszard Kapuscinski noted, and my generation has been aggressively and comprehensively exposed to the conning powers of this sort of bloodstained kitsch.

Yet they lack the box-office star power of Hugh Jackman and Daniel Radcliffe — the sort of actors whom theater producers salivate to build shows around — or Matthew Morrison and Neil Patrick Harris, who had admired outings on Broadway and may be more bankable now thanks to their starring roles on television (in "Glee" and "How I Met Your Mother," respectively).