Example sentences of "power of [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The increase in the number of primary elections and other assaults on the power of parties during the 1970s were enthusiastically welcomed by the Reagan forces .
2 Yet their theory does not underestimate either the power of ideas of the complexity of the process of their historical production .
3 These protect the purchasing power of savings in a way that no other completely safe investment can do , and they are free of United Kingdom income tax and capital gains tax .
4 In the rise to power of individuals in the closing decades of the Roman Republic many magistrates advertised their right to office by reminding the populace of the virtues of their ancestors through portraits reproduced on the coins they were authorised to mint .
5 Most modern , written , constitutions seek not merely to set up and define the main organs of the state and to distribute public power amongst them , but also to state a range of constitutional guarantees for the subject , frequently limiting the power of organs of the state to this extent .
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