Sentence examples for statement of power from inspiring English sources

A judicial decision is an uncodified statement of power relations.

For many buyers, Ms. Corcoran said, a view is a statement of power and control.

Decapitation is another thing altogether: a statement of power, a warning to all, like public executions of old.

It's a strong statement of power and pride and, at the same time, is sweet and melancholic.

The new wave of detentions has also been seen as a pointed statement of power by Prince Mohammed, whose loyalists orchestrated last year's arrests.

Louis Vuitton, it is well-known, is the jewel in the LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) crown and the sheer scale of both production and set were nothing if not a statement of power.

"In order to make statements of power, political statements, in 1996, they would mutilate people.

The media had created a picture of conflict; but Saddam had deployed his troops, and America had dropped its bombs, as pure statements of power in a vacuum, and the two forces had never met.

Names have cycled from the purely utilitarian (Ford Model T, Studebaker Big 6) to hints of grandeur and exclusivity (Buick Regal, Mercury Monarch) to statements of power and domination (Studebaker Dictator, Dodge Avenger).

For Griffith, conflict remained at the heart of modern society and, since laws could be nothing other than statements of power relations, law could never provide a substitute for politics.

She mentions Richard Serra, whom she's known for years, and "Torqued Ellipses," his curvilinear steel sculptures that weigh about 40 tons apiece and which she describes as "real statements of power".