Example sentences of "power of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems clear that the Crown had greater powers of nomination in the more newly established institutions , that within all departments it was more likely to nominate to the most recently created offices , and that it was trying , with some measure of success , to extend its powers . |
| 2 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 3 | The freshness and innovation of the dance underground has shown remarkable powers of survival in the face of media attempts to drag it kicking into the mainstream . |
| 4 | These related constraints at the international and national levels left the government with very little room to manoeuvre , and selling corporate peace under the given conditions stretched the Labour leaders ' powers of statesmanship to the utmost . |
| 5 | The agreement also granted unprecedented powers of self-government to the country 's 750,000 native Indian and Inuit inhabitants , including the right to raise taxes and to exercise direct regulation of their internal affairs . |
| 6 | It does seem today , as Mill once said , ‘ protection is needed against the tyranny of prevailing opinion … the tendency of society to impose its own ideas and practices ’ and by ‘ an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual by the force of opinion and even by that of legislation ’ . |
| 7 | But there are also groups within these communities which have taken the other route , and adopted the position of a ‘ race apart ’ , investing it with a positive image as a means of asserting the distinctiveness of their own culture and its powers of resistance to the dominant society . |
| 8 | In other words they could overcome the debilitating impact of high unemployment and the government 's attempts it deflation which had clearly weakened the trade union movement 's powers of resistance during the early 1920s . |
| 9 | Many modern commentators , from Burke , Hamilton and Madison to the present day , have frankly seen the device of representation as a means of limiting popular participation and control , and of retaining the day-to-day powers of government in the hands of a ( preferably enlightened ) elite . |
| 10 | It is reported that on discharge from hospital on the thirty-sixth postoperative day " he appeared to have perfectly normal powers of comprehension of the spoken word " and was able to refer to the medical and nursing staff by name . |
| 11 | Should , say , the factor ( ) be repeated r times , then in terms of a set of constants B i the expansion is expressible as Restoration to a common denominator and comparison of the coefficients of powers of s in the numerator with those in the original numerator determines the constants B i in equation ( 11.37 ) or A i in equation ( 11.36 ) . |
| 12 | The citation described him as an officer of extreme gallantry , with the qualities of coolness and high powers of leadership under the most trying circumstances . |
| 13 | A white , descended from Corsican immigrants , Cipriani had sharpened his latent powers of leadership in the prolonged fight to get equal treatment for West Indian soldiers during the first World War . |
| 14 | It is , in my judgment , putting it too high to say that the interim relief claimed covering only five weeks before the main hearing , must be treated as pre-empting the court 's powers of decision at the eventual hearing . |
| 15 | The following month the King formally delegated the powers of parliament to the Bhattarai Cabinet and announce a general amnesty for all political prisoners . |
| 16 | Rejected moves to make the European Parliament the principal legislative body of the EC , and transform the Council of Ministers into a consultative body with no powers of veto over the parliament . |
| 17 | Finally , the Adoption Act 1968 extends the powers of courts in the United Kingdom over adoption , and enables effect to be given in the United Kingdom to adoptions made in other countries ; and the Adoption Act 1976 consolidates all the earlier enactments relating to adoption . |
| 18 | So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | If the Central Authority had delegated its powers of generation to the area distribution boards , they would , in effect , have become integrated power boards . |
| 20 | Do the workers have any erm powers of negotiation over the price paid and what they 're going to be paid . |
| 21 | Reading that wealth of images had tested her powers of concentration to the utmost , yet this act of unremitting self-scrutiny had left her more energized than exhausted , for much of critical importance had emerged . |
| 22 | It has to be persuasion because he has few , if any , powers of coercion unlike the British prime minister . |
| 23 | In 1926 an Act of Parliament gave the Survey powers of access to the logs and specimens of all boreholes and sinkings over 100 feet deep . |
| 24 | It is through the implementation of this agreed machinery that disciplinary tribunals and the Inns themselves , with the consent of the Lord Chief Justice , are now able to exercise extended powers of control over the professional conduct of barristers , with a wider range of penalties , but subject always , in the case of decisions by tribunals , to a right of appeal to the visitors : see Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations 1990 , regulations 22 and 30 . |
| 25 | Similarly , although they show remarkable powers of regeneration in the aquarium , there is a better chance of success if the animal is undamaged when purchased , so it 's wise to look for cuts and splits of any kind , and reject animals that show them . |
| 26 | Employing his considerable powers of persuasion to the full , he convinced his superiors that the German Eighth Army should disengage from Rennenkampf 's First Army near Gumbinnen , leaving merely a cavalry screen , and strike with every available man at Samsonov 's advancing Second Army . |
| 27 | Davide saw how they fastened their hopes on his powers of persuasion in the courts where identity and responsibility are conferred . |
| 28 | This raised the question of sections 42 and 57 of the 1976 Act which weaken the powers of investigation by the Fair Employment Commission . |
| 29 | A CONSTITUTION MAY BE DEFINED as a body of laws , customs , and conventions that define the composition and powers of organs of the state and that regulate the relations of the various state organs to one another and to the private citizen . |
| 30 | But as if to prove his powers of condensation in the autobiography , Sisson exercises remarkable reticence on matters of personal and family sentiment . |