Sentence examples for powers to destroy from inspiring English sources

Instead of a popular uprising by citizens enraged by economic stagnation and political oppression, she said, she found a conspiracy cooked up by international powers to destroy Syria.

The United States is in the midst of a nervous breakdown in which conspiracy theorists insist that the president is using his office's powers to destroy the country.

It reflects an organised effort on the part of western powers to destroy the developmentalist movement that flowered in the global south after colonialism.

One depicted Shirin Ebadi, the lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has been abroad since the election, as working with foreign powers to destroy the Islamic republic while battering her husband at home.

A few minutes in, the boy gains access to a new chamber where he finds a highly reflective shield; when he points it at Trico, he's able to direct the monster's lightning-like powers to destroy barriers.

What a topsy-turvy picture: We see a woman who has benefited from evolving gender norms using her government powers to destroy the life's work of a man who has done as much for the world's most vulnerable women as anybody on earth.

Is it in Trump's power to destroy it?

The power to tax is the power to destroy — or, at least, the power to discourage.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.

'The power to tax involves the power to destroy.' McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat.

"The power to tax is the power to destroy," Mr. Issa said.