Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of power over " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , those who stress the symbolic role of leaders , or the concentration of power over a few absolutely critical decisions in the hands of a power elite , view leadership as a zero-sum game . |
| 2 | The locus of power over village decision-making has therefore receded from the Big House to County Hall and on , in many cases , to Whitehall . |
| 3 | The possession of power over employees is not unique to large companies ( though as just mentioned , size may create a position of dominance and hence accentuate power ) , but rather is inherent in the employment relationship itself . |
| 4 | The enjoyment of power over another is fed by imagination from the viewpoint of his resisting and suffering self . |
| 5 | Despite all the theory about schemas , in the absence of a crisis the really critical factor in creating the felt need for change is probably the acquisition of power over the organization 's reward/penalty system . |
| 6 | Currently , the balance of power over these decisions seems to have swung in the artist 's favour . |
| 7 | A critical impulse and a dream of power over nature sprang in part from natural magic — a somewhat disparate constellation of beliefs and practices ( including forms of alchemy and astrology ) rooted in the conviction that there were hidden , natural powers in the cosmos that could be tapped and channeled to human advantage . |
| 8 | She would have had a sort of power over him . |
| 9 | First , it will give the child a sense of power over the machine . |
| 10 | Many shy people find the role of the detached evaluator a useful one : it gives them a sense of power over those people who need a lot of obvious approval , yet the role does n't demand too much of a contribution from them . |
| 11 | However strongly she felt about the rights and wrongs of her situation she had no sense of power over its outcome . |
| 12 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 13 | This places men generally in a position of power over women , whether at home , at work or through the political , social and economic systems and institutions which govern our lives . |
| 14 | By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people . |