Sentence examples for restrain powers from inspiring English sources

It took rescuers about an hour to successfully restrain Powers in handcuffs, but once they finally did she was taken to Boulder Community Hospital where she was treated and released, KDVR reports.

Instead they communicate a truth that ordinary Russians understand only too well: the law is there not to restrain power, but to serve it.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which West Coast governors say did very little to restrain power traders during the height of the run-ups, will determine the exact refund amount, if any.

The ideal of law, in contrast, involves a set of institutions that regulate or restrain power with reference to norms of justice.

The Conservative and Lib Dem manifestos were already in accord on scrapping ID cards, the national identity register and the nationwide ContactPoint children's database, as well as on restraining powers of entry and ending the misuse of anti-terror laws.

Constitutions are devices for restraining power, whether this be the power of a king or a popular majority.

Using gas instead of grubbier coal to generate electricity has helped to trim emissions while restraining power prices.

The pounding of ocean waves even during a calm day still has an undeniable, barely restrained power.

Without the restraining power of such institutions, conservatives believe, there can be no ethical behaviour and no responsible use of liberty.

Every Little Thing is Estepa's fifth album and has an assured, restrained power that comes from experience and belief in yourself.

He thinks the collapse in the restraining power of religion helped to push the world into the era of total war.Given that we are all products of the more secular age which "the war to end all wars" ushered in, many people will find his theory pretty far-fetched.