Sentence examples for reigning power from inspiring English sources
In 1987, the regime of President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya reportedly became alarmed by an account of a mysterious figure roaming the country, inciting people to insurrection with fiery rhetoric and open contempt for the reigning power structure.
Graham Allison, writing in the Financial Times recently, asked if China and the United States are doomed to encounter Thucydides's Trap — the pattern of history established in the fifth century B.C., when the rise of a new power — Athens — shocked the reigning power — Sparta — and led to thirty years of conflict that left both sides ruined.
In the case of the 1857 uprising, the truth is that the reigning power's brutal response resulted in some significant changes in Indian political life.
The buzz: No appointment was necessary for the music world's reigning power couple.
As the background for the development of Hook's thought, the philosophical and intellectual discussion of this period was dominated by the reigning power of Deweyan pragmatism even as it also showed the emerging signs of the coming influence of Marxism.
Last week, pop music's two reigning power couples joined forces to go on quite possibly the most talked-about double date of 2012.
Marketers like Mr. Isikaku -- who are almost always members of the famously entrepreneurial Igbo ethnicity -- are the reigning powers of the home video industry.
Unlike the general populace, they openly challenge the reigning powers that be and speak out early and passionately against injustice of various kinds".
That loss, which ended a 42-game winning streak, did not lead to a shift of the nation's reigning powers, however.
As Mrs. Coulter, an emissary of the reigning powers (known only as "the Magisterium" in the film), Ms. Kidman has rarely looked more beautifully and exotically alien.
To make big stores more appealing he put in restaurants, cafés and even gyms.But revolutions are generally bad for the reigning powers and in Tesco's case too many are happening at once.
