Sentence examples for shadow power from inspiring English sources

In the hobbled politics of the country, the group is forbidden to act as a political party, and yet the government recognizes its power by allowing it to function as a shadow power, operating charities, running candidates in other parties, and colonizing the unions and the professional syndicates, which it now largely controls.

And it's a measure of that success, perhaps, that two Spanish newspapers, El Pais and ABC, published stories this fall, based on alleged police leaks, claiming that the Tambov gang, one of Russia's most infamous mafia groups and long the shadow power in St . Petersburg paid an opponent, Bayern Munich, to take a dive, paving the way for Zenit's UEFA Cup championship last spring.

Differently, the central square region (not only the test cell) in the window is used to compute the shadow power and the surrounding annular region is used to compute the clutter power.

I'd already been down in the slums of Colombia and very quickly came to an understanding that the cartel is the authority there, the shadow power in these ghettos.

Behind the scenes, however, the shadow powers of the business and security elite that keep President Peña Nieto in power can't afford to cooperate.

Here, it is level 70, has the moves Shadow Force, Earth-Power,Slash, & Heal-Block.

The company is usually behind the scenes, in the shadows, powering the mobile platforms for more than 200 bigger brands, including The Golf Warehouse, RadioShack, Chubbies and many others.

As political commentator Denis Dresser recently wrote: "Slim emerged as a Mexican prototype of the Russian oligarchs, as someone who multiplied their fortunes under the shadow of power".

On his further walks, hearing music from near and far, there are encounters with strangers, mostly migrants, the powerless living under the shadow of power.

Gabriel is sent by the Brotherhood of Light to the Lake of Oblivion, where his deceased wife, Marie, tells him that Spirits who founded the Brotherhood said that the Lords of Shadow's power will save the world.

Gabriel meets a man from the Brotherhood called Zobek, who states that a prophecy has been kept a secret by a select few, which tells of a pure-hearted warrior who will claim the Lords of Shadow's power to overcome evil.