Example sentences of "of power over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 2 | First , it will give the child a sense of power over the machine . |
| 3 | that different actors have different degrees of power over the creation of media content . |
| 4 | This is not just a matter of looking at the distribution of power and influence in relation to official decision-making bodies , or even of power over the minds and feelings of the people themselves , although in both cases that distribution is manifestly and grotesquely uneven . |
| 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 | Whereas statements in the autonomous scientific field are descriptive statements , legal utterances are performatives in their very effects of power over the social . |
| 7 | The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort . |