Sentence examples for powers to harm from inspiring English sources

Radium, my mother would say, was a magical element, with unique powers to harm and cure.

In this special he travels the globe to find real magic, starting in Nepal, where certain monks are said to use their powers to harm anyone who crosses their paths.

Industrial society had an unprecendented capacity to create prosperity and comfort but also contained undeniable new powers to harm, to victimize and to control, as Wells and later writers like George Orwell fully recognized.

"Religion and magic and reality were all mixed together," he said Witches were thought to have superhuman powers to harm other people or lure them into a compact with the devil.

According to Rios, misframing uses institutional power to harm, while ignoring the powerful cultural frames available to inspire and transform.

In other words, anything powerful enough to help also has the power to harm.

"Anyone who doesn't believe that books have the power to harm is not taking them seriously enough".

The F.T.C.'s inaction on the core question of search bias will only embolden Google to act more aggressively to misuse its monopoly power to harm other innovators".

"We've given collection agencies a lot of power to harm consumers' credit reports due to medical problems, without proper checks and balances".

Modern beliefs see the power of witchcraft as emanating from evil spirits that possess the witch and endow him or her with the power to harm.

Preventive action of this kind has a further significance, for it implies a belief that the dead might be malevolent and had power to harm the living.