Example sentences of "'s power over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Old Testament , Job alludes to the moon 's power over the human soul and there is another reference in Gen. i. 16 which refers to the moon as the lesser of the two great lights of heaven . |
| 2 | But their need for each other was the basis of Rich 's affection for Philip and the source of the older man 's power over the boy who would gratefully take his teacher 's name and put it up in lights half way around the world . |
| 3 | For all the Tsar 's power over the army , where domestic affairs are concerned the phrase ‘ absolute monarchy ’ may obscure as much as it reveals . |
| 4 | Johnnie Armstrong 's power over the region became so great , and the ill doings of his ‘ riding family ’ and associates so flagrant , that protests from England and the growing wrath of young James V in Edinburgh brought about a fatal confrontation . |
| 5 | The battle of the gods in the Babylonian Genesis has no Old Testament equivalent , despite attempts by many scholars to discover underlying references to it in the text of Genesis 1:2 and other passages which speak of God 's power over the waters . |
| 6 | Conventionalism protects the authority of convention by insisting that conventional practices establish the end as well as the beginning of the past 's power over the present . |