Example sentences of "power in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with the emergence of the Southern Irish state , it soon became clear that this secularization of the state form was not to signify an absence of Roman catholic power in the construction of public morality , but rather an indirect recognition of the sovereignty of the church in most areas of moral concern besides education . |
| 2 | The second case reveals even more the extent to which the legitimation of the state was a Roman catholic affair , at least as one of the two principal sources of power in the alliance . |
| 3 | power in the Red Cross . |
| 4 | In a similar fashion , all the representative bodies of the police — ACPO , the Superintendents ' Association , and the Police Federation — were outraged at the creation of the Crown Prosecution Service in the Prosecution of Offences Act in the mid-1980s ; for one area of police power in the courts had been removed at one fell swoop and given to another arm of the executive . |
| 5 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 6 | Explosive press-ups develop power in the upper body muscles |
| 7 | The proposals to increase the number of seats to 23 , likely to be made later this year , will not change the balance of power in the Council : two seats each will be added to appointed , directly- and indirectly-elected categories . |
| 8 | Nagorny Karabakh , which has a predominantly Armenian population , became part of Azerbaijan in 1923 after the consolidation of Soviet power in the Transcaucasus region . |
| 9 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 10 | With a growing number of nuclear power stations ( the old Magnox reactors such as Calder Hall in Cumbria or Wylfa and Trawsfynydd in North Wales being supplemented by stations such as Sellafield , despite the opposition of environmentalists and the anti-nuclear lobbies ) ; with hydroelectric power in the Scottish Highlands and North Wales ; and a still important , if aged , coal industry , together with another huge energy bonus in the shape of North Sea gas , Britain 's energy position seemed remarkably secure . |
| 11 | Henderson drew a sharp contrast with the years after 1945 when Britain was still a major and respected force in world affairs , the dominant power in the Middle East down to the time of Suez , the second most important power in the Far East at least down to the 1954 Geneva Conference . |
| 12 | Henderson drew a sharp contrast with the years after 1945 when Britain was still a major and respected force in world affairs , the dominant power in the Middle East down to the time of Suez , the second most important power in the Far East at least down to the 1954 Geneva Conference . |
| 13 | There appeared to be some similarity with the decline of Macmillan 's regime in the early sixties — Cabinet reshuffles ; acute balance of payments ' difficulties , a shaky pound , and high interest rates ; a renewal of strikes on the railways , the docks , and in local government services ; a somewhat disaffected public apprehensive at Britain 's declining power in the world . |
| 14 | Here was a civil servant exercising obvious power in the choice of a Church leader . |
| 15 | so , although the advance of £ 100,000 may appear a vast sum of money , it can result in a lack of spending power in the rockets of individual band members . |
| 16 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
| 17 | Those priorities have reflected politicians ' prime concern : to centralize economic power in the hands of the government in a way which matched the centralization of political power as expressed through the one-party state . |
| 18 | There is a sense of isolation from the rest of the world , a sense of the power in the dogs , and a wonderful feeling of being in control , but only just . |
| 19 | All the right ingredients seem to be there : so it 's easy enough to persuade yourself the sharp steering , smooth increase in turbo power in the mid-range , quick-shifting gear change and body-hugging seats imply something of a breakthrough by Detroit . |
| 20 | A more intriguing possibility is to generate power in the hotel . |
| 21 | At blindside prop George Mann , recruited from St Helens to ease mounting injury problems , ran with the enthusiasm of a man keen to catch the eye ; and with Kuiti and Nikau generating a good deal of power in the second row , Rovers were hard pressed to close the gaps . |
| 22 | But Lord Donaldson said he did not interpret the power in the 1981 Broadcasting Act to mean that Parliament intended the home secretary to have authority either covertly to censor programmes or to require the broadcasting authorities to present news programmes other than with due impartiality and accuracy . |
| 23 | THE Czechoslovak opposition raised the stakes in the battle for power in the country last night after the resignation of the Prime Minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec . |
| 24 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 25 | The strategic need for diversity and ultimately for the replacement of fossil fuels has been the driving force for the development of nuclear power in the U.K. In turn — since uranium reserves are finite — the efficient exploitation of nuclear power itself ultimately depends on the fast reactor . |
| 26 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 27 | The briefing convinced him that the combination of the atomic bomb and air power would give the Western Alliance a favourable balance of power in the world for the foreseeable future . |
| 28 | After the dramatic changes of recent weeks — the creation of a powerful new presidency , the ending of the Communist party 's guaranteed right to rule , Lithuania 's attempted secession from the Soviet Union — comes the jockeying for power in the new Soviet Union . |
| 29 | But inflation was also caused by too much purchasing power in the economy . |
| 30 | Political power in the Soviet Union is like matter at the beginning of the universe . |