Sentence examples for ragged power from inspiring English sources

Pakistan's history of coups and ragged power struggles has left the country with an unsettled constitutional system.

Some members of Mr. Fox's circle -- including people vying to become cabinet ministers -- have suggested that Pemex have more autonomy and that the entire energy sector, including the ragged electric-power grid, be opened to private investment.

There may be only a few known members of ragged and powerless white-power groups, but the thousands of right-wing extremists who don't belong to recognized groups are harder to pin down.

Really, though, the brand that powers this ragged, intermittently uproarious fusion of sketch-comedy goofing and driving around in circles is Will Ferrell, who wrote the screenplay (with Adam McKay, the director) and served as an executive producer, in addition to running around on a race track in his underpants.

Dejan Lovren, mentioned as that potential leader when signed from Southampton, has been desperately poor and looked shot to bits by the final whistle, run ragged by the pace and power of Palace's attack, with the outstanding Yannick Bolasie as its focal point.

In the distance a guitarist sounding more like 21st-century Hendrix than 1940s Django Reinhardt ripped power chords through a ragged horn section.

Today, years of various physical struggles seem to have dropped a few notes from the higher end of her range and added more rasp to an already ragged tone, but the glint and power are still there.

But NATO is far from winning the war, and the ragged Afghan insurgents seem to have more staying power than the West's mighty alliance.As defence ministers prepare to meet in the Netherlands on October 24th, NATO itself is looking shaky.

It's a somewhat ragged production, but there's no denying the power of seeing America's first black president in Cape Coast, from which so many Africans were shipped into lives of slavery abroad.

But nothing could disrupt the focused Federer, who unleashed his full power to run the 22-year-old Croat ragged in the eighth game and served out to take the set 6-4.

The Spanish government has encouraged official immigration from South America at the expense of North Africa, but smugglers in high-speed power boats make nightly drop-offs on the ragged Spanish coastline, and the frequent discovery of corpses washing up on the beaches testifies to the desperation of those who did not quite get to shore.