Example sentences of "[to-vb] the power [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ structuralists ’ argue that the causes of such behaviours lie deep in the social organization of society , and particularly in its class divisions , and that they can only be radically modified by collective actions designed to curb the power of the purveyors of cigarettes and alcohol and to reduce social inequalities . |
| 2 | They become prospectively entitled , through the mechanism of liquidation , to displace the power of the shareholders and directors to deal with the company 's assets . |
| 3 | We would support any moves to increase the powers of the regulators to give them stronger teeth . |
| 4 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 5 | Legislation to increase the powers of the police and the judiciary in combating organized crime received final parliamentary approval , with strong cross-party support , on Aug. 7 . |
| 6 | From there they went to increase the power of the individuals who controlled them . |
| 7 | And just as IBM has failed accurately to perceive the power of the customers ' unions , it has underestimated the importance of lessors and publishers . |
| 8 | Where the wife and new husband are to hold as beneficial joint tenants it is not strictly necessary to incorporate an express power of sale and purport to extend the powers of the trustees of the conveyance in the conveyance since the Law of Property Act 1925 ( ss35 and 36 ) already implies that they will hold upon the " statutory trusts " . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom and Spain on June 26 , 1989 , signed an agreement to extend the powers of the police to combat drug trafficking in each other 's country . |
| 10 | Gorbachev says party must not oppose change John Rettie reports from Moscow on Gorbachev 's attempt to retain the power of the Communists . |
| 11 | For the first time I began to recognize the power of the forces that Laura was summoning to her need . |
| 12 | The act set out to reduce the powers of the unions . |
| 13 | One remedy for the electronic pollution may be to reduce the power of the phones ' transmitters and instead have more of the receivers that pluck their signals from the air . |
| 14 | To demonstrate the power of the animals , a fully grown man stands on the back of the 6-inch-long shrew , balancing himself on one leg . |
| 15 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 16 | La Guardia , a Republican , used a cross-party platform to break the power of the Democrats ' Tammany Hall machine . |
| 17 | The Tory Party had a clear mission which was to break the power of the unions , and the way that it did this was by using the law . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proposals he has to alter the power of the courts to sequestrate the assets of trade unions . |
| 19 | Such cautionary tales lost nothing in the telling , and they served to elevate the power of the shrines of the saints , and also to protect and strengthen the right of asylum claimed for churches in Roman Law and in the Church canons . |
| 20 | Society will then be ready for Parliament to cut the power of the judges . |