Sentence examples for table of power from inspiring English sources

Art, Ms. Rich added, "means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage".

Not because they're benevolently offering you crumbs from the table of power but because it's as much your seat in parliament as it is theirs.

The one offered an ethnic cultural identity, and the other a civic identity which still happens to provide a place on the global stage, a seat at the table of power brokers such as the G8.

In exchange for his seat at the table of power, Mr. Lazio has also had to give up something, his critics assert: the freedom to criticize his leaders openly and to vote against them whenever he chooses.

"It puts me at the head of the table of power within the Assembly," Mr. Norman said, before shifting to the first-person plural: "It allows us to be a greater and stronger advocate for the people in New York.

But I do know that art — in my own case the art of poetry — means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

What was needed was political and social pressure strong enough to turn the tables of power.

Conversely, women are sorely lacking at the top tables of power – only 25 per cent of senior managers in the UK are women".

Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white.

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It means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage".