Example sentences of "[noun sg] of power from the " in BNC.

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1 While you relax in Rover comfort , the merest touch of your right foot will release a surge of power from the 140 PS engine .
2 A transition team to negotiate the handover of power from the FSLN to the UNO was formed after the elections , headed by ( for the UNO ) Antonio Lacayo , Chamorro 's brother-in-law , who had run her election campaign , and ( for the FSLN ) Cdr .
3 There have been three significant cases of the smooth transfer of power from the death of a civilian head of state to his successor .
4 Even in 1986 — when TFI was privatized and when the deregulation of broadcasting involved a transfer of power from the Communications Ministry to the Regulatory Body , the CNCL — employees of the Law Department of the CNCL stressed the importance of the residual powers of the government , exercised partly via the ‘ cahiers des charges ’ .
5 For example , the gradual transfer of power from the House of Commons to the Cabinet has occurred without any formal legislative change .
6 Significantly , however , the PAC , which had consistently called for the immediate transfer of power from the white minority , agreed to negotiations with the de Klerk regime .
7 The APF held only 30 of the 350 seats in the Supreme Soviet but was demanding transfer of power from the Supreme Soviet to the National Council , which comprised 50 Supreme Soviet deputies , half from the APF .
8 An increase in transfer of power from the state to local government would also make institutions more accountable .
9 With the development of capitalism and the shift of power from the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie , many of the functions of the church were devolved onto other emerging ISAs , the most important being the educational .
10 No official reason was given for the dismissals but commentators interpreted them as adding to the shift of power from the police to the Army .
11 He starts , for example , by castigating the absence of power from the economists ' models : instead .
12 For example , if the positive and negative poles of an electrical battery are connected , we ordinarily describe the discharge that is then manifested ( as heat , or motive force or whatever ) as a flow of power from the positive pole to the negative pole .
13 To sanction general judicial intervention simply because the court would prefer a different choice to that of the administrator runs counter to this fundamental assumption , and would entail a re-allocation of power from the legislature and bureaucracy to the courts .
14 MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature .
15 Bleak House was first published in 1852–3 , when the transference of power from the aristocracy to the upper middle class was already under way .
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