Sentence examples for threatening powers from inspiring English sources

Machines have always seemed to possess imposing and threatening powers.

Drawing upon diplomatic history and a detailed study of alliance formation in the Middle East between 1955 and 1979, he demonstrates that states are more likely to join together against threats than they are to ally themselves with threatening powers.

He was a lawyer and a planter who sought to insulate his home state of Virginia from what he feared as early as the 1790s to be the growing, threatening powers of the national government.

Rather than employ familiar strategies such as active military alliances and arms buildups, leading powers have engaged in "soft balancing," which seeks to restrain threatening powers through the use of international institutions, informal alignments, and economic sanctions.

Nine months later, the women give birth to a race of children with golden eyes – strangely precocious children who are emotionally blank, band together against the villagers, and are soon perceived to possess formidable and horribly threatening powers.

On Saturday, at St . Pauls, he addressed the accommodations of faith by some Africans who mix their Christianity with animism living "in fear of spirits, of malign and threatening powers".

Her anticipation of her opponent's shot is uncanny but, like Wozniacki, she lacks threatening power.

The Met Office has extended an amber weather warning to parts of Scotland, Wales and northern England with winds threatening power cuts and falling debris.

Homs Province sprawls far to the eastern desert, including Palmyra, which the Islamic State controls, and gas fields where the group has advanced, threatening power supplies for much of Syria.

California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for San Francisco 150 miles away as the blaze is threatening power lines that bring electricity to the city.

California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for San Francisco 150 miles (220km) away as the blaze is also threatening power lines that bring electricity to the city.