Example sentences of "the power of [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | Authors should have the power of veto over blurbs — the book deserved a better one than this . |
2 | The MoD has the power of veto over all British arms exports . |
3 | Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected . |
4 | Henry VII instigated changes which included reducing the power of nobility over the countryside and extending the duties of the Justices of the Peace . |
5 | Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place … |
6 | All these birds have lost the power of flight over millions of years . |
7 | This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order . |