Sentence examples for rejection of power from inspiring English sources

For many of us, the referendum result was a rejection of power being taken into fewer and fewer hands.

Drezner argues, echoing Charles Kupchan and Peter Trubowitz, that "demographic and political shifts within the United States (including the right's rejection of multilateralism and the left's rejection of power projection) are making it harder and harder to build support for a grand strategy based on liberal internationalist principles".

Burke believed such relentless questioning would lead to anarchy, while Wollstonecraft connected Price with "reason, liberty, free discussion, mental superiority, the improving exercise of the mind, moral excellence, active benevolence, orientation toward the present and future, and the rejection of power and riches"—quintessential middle-class professional values.

For us, while these observations are important, they still do not imply an absolute rejection of power-as-war.

While the lectures of 1976 do not constitute a rejection of power-as-war, in the years that followed there was certainly a subtle shift in Foucault's approach to power.

Rejection of corporate power and greed had become the common sense of the age.

There are still some fundamentally German things in me such as my rejection of nuclear power.

The events in Fukushima do not justify a wholesale rejection of nuclear power.

It is a rejection of the power of the abusers who bullied them into silence and the first step in sharing the pain with those around them.

Polish cities and towns changed the most blatant communist-inspired names after the rejection of soviet power in 1989, but critics say many survive.

For Jon Underwood, who launched the pop-up death cafe movement and is raising funds for a permanent death cafe venue in London, it is in part a rejection of the "power dynamics around death and dying.