Sentence examples for powers used from inspiring English sources

Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.

It is like the gunboat diplomacy colonial powers used.

Moreover, the input powers used in SEM models are restored by the stochastic formulation.

Under the pressures of World War II, the major powers used millions of submachine guns.

Intense laser powers used in confocal Raman micro-spectroscopy can photoablate thermally sensitive samples.

"The imperialist powers used Christianity to invade China," said Luo Guanzong, chairman of the Three-Self organization.

He added: "The powers used in this case are currently under challenge in the European court of human rights.

The big European powers used the crisis to establish some new, more punitive rules for countries needing emergency aid.

When much of the continent was under colonial rule, great powers used these outposts of their empires as laboratories, and Africans as their test subjects.

These were the same totalitarian powers used to expel them in secret 40 years ago; Blair used them to authorise his illegal attack on Iraq.

Because the Allied Powers used the power of food in their embargo, Germany was forced to resort to desperate measures and eventually failed despite them.