Sentence examples for promises of power from inspiring English sources

The promises of power mean little since they are so rarely kept.

An overriding theme of the movie is the impersonality of technology and the degree to which its promises of power and perfection have seized the human imagination and begun determining human activity.

For decades, many of this nation's newspaper editors, publishers and reporters were bribed with money, sex, promises of power and other pleasures by the leaders of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has run Mexico since 1929.

Four years later, amid renewed street fighting between the CPP and the prince's royalist movement, Mr Hun Sen seized power in a coup, and had dozens of royalist officials shot.In the three elections since then the Cambodian leader has gradually eased up on the hardball tactics, occasionally jailing or exiling critics, but also wooing opponents into the fold with promises of power.

Ordinary citizens are newly awakened to and enlivened by the call to rebellion and the promise of power.

But that doesn't stop him from chasing "the green light" of wealth and status, the dangled promise of power that can only create a corrupt plutocracy shored up by vast social inequality.

There are parallels in the two events, in that both McCarthy and Trump seem to have bewitched members of their party with a promise of power, coupled with a fear of being the next target, whether of a hearing or of a tweet.

All candidates enjoy the limelight and the promise of power.

By honing in on that, they convince them through a promise of power and meaning, if they join ISIS.

They win over young recruits by claiming solidarity with the Syrian rebels next door and with the promise of power and respect that only comes, here, to those toting automatic weapons.

And almost everybody -- not everybody because some people left the party in 1993 or so -- understood where they were going, and Orban's persuasion and the promise of power prompted them to stay with him.