Sentence examples for upset power from inspiring English sources

Strong language often involves naming things you desire but aren't supposed to desire; at the very least, it aims to upset power structures that may seem a bit too arbitrary.

In July last year the firm upset independent power producers by refusing to accept spill-power, the surplus electricity they generate beyond the amount that ENEL has agreed to buy.

But there is a good reason why they do not seek the limelight: It might upset the powers that be.

He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together.

May they continue to upset these power rankings all season long.

The cockamamie dimensions at their three-year-old playpen upset their power hitters, and they began losing games and fans in the same death spiral.

In this version of the world, the market mechanism is as flawless a creation as the earth, and should remain untouched by the hand of meddlers, whose only effect is to upset its power to enrich us all.

For a brief time, however, a younger more charismatic general, Khin Nyunt, threatened to upset the power balance.

But sometimes, it's necessary to upset the power balance and remind them that you're the boss.

This continues to upset the power balance between medicine and health consumers, as the women in this study were obtaining their information outside the usual medical sphere, and on their own terms.

I was bringing in computer systems that were upsetting the power structure of the whole company.