Sentence examples similar to powers to represent from inspiring English sources

In 1647, the Levellers, hoping to remedy this small defect, drafted "An Agreement of the People," with the idea that every freeman would assent to it, granting to his representatives the power to represent him.

This is the power to represent the people of Scotland.

Desperately seeking to deny the horror that has befallen them, they loot language of its power to represent fact.

It sounds as though she is thinking of blood's power to represent violence, destiny, guilt, consanguinity or sacrifice.

Moreover, this being the 1970s, there was not enough computing power to represent more than one household or business at a time.

As he talks passionately about Versus, it becomes clear what excites Anderson most about clothes is their status as objects, their totemic power to represent a moment and mood in fashion.

This provided the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Mumbai's primary agency responsible for urban governance in the city, with a unique opportunity to "play with the data" on the urban poor, and thus take away their power to represent themselves.

Auditory experience has the power to represent sounds, and it has the power to represent movement (as when one hears the sound of a moving train's whistle).

The mind's power to recognize resemblance seemingly depends on its power to represent things, rather than vice-versa.

It occurred after he had lost the power to represent the state due to the public uprising against his rule.

Brentano's bafflement was with the intentionality of the human mind, its apparently mysterious power to represent things, events, properties in the world.