Sentence examples for unruly power from inspiring English sources

Dickey enchanted baseball fans this season, harnessing the unruly power of his knuckleball to devastating ends.

The result flirted with chaos, but it matched the unruly power of the score.

The unruly power of Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, was abruptly curtailed when leaders cracked down on expression in the hope of beating back a wave of critical discussion.

For policy makers in the region, the worst case scenario would be an unruly power struggle accompanied by a breakdown of command and control over the country's nuclear weapons.

To tame the unruly power of the Web, the Supreme People's Court declared that "false defamatory" comments, viewed five thousand times or forwarded five hundred times, could result in a prison sentence of up to three years.

The authors reserve their greatest scorn for the F.B.I. "From the inside," they write, "the F.B.I. was a disorganized jumble of competing and unruly power centers; from the outside, it was a surly colossus".

Mr. Charles likes jazz that's crisp and ambitious but never unruly, powered by clean and swinging rhythm, harmonically coming out of the mid-1960s.

Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes.

Iraq's leaders continue to struggle to assert themselves over an unruly assortment of power bases and militias, which have emerged from the vacuum of the past 13 years.

PBS might seem like an unlikely place for a show created by two food-world figures with the combined star power and unruly personas of Mr. Chang and Mr. Bourdain.

But in the 17th and 18th centuries, European thinkers in search of political stability and order looked beyond the religious strictures that had manifestly failed to repress unruly rulers' passions for power, pleasure and possessions.