Example sentences of "power in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time Bosnia-Hercegovina came under Austro-Hungarian occupation , and Turkey 's waning power in the lands of the South Slavs was confined to Macedonia . |
| 2 | Conceivably , if the revolt had spread to take in substantial parts of the country then , to anticipate Maoist precepts of the future , the countryside would have surrounded the cities ; but at this time not only were there no ‘ sympathetic detonations ’ in other parts of the country but there was practically no challenge whatever to French power in the cities . |
| 3 | The object is to organize the internal structure of the company so that , whilst the directors as the managers of the company are given ample discretionary power to operate the company effectively , they are nevertheless obliged to exercise that power in the interests of the owners of the company . |
| 4 | so , although the advance of £ 100,000 may appear a vast sum of money , it can result in a lack of spending power in the rockets of individual band members . |
| 5 | The only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may be an enlightened citizenry — an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government . |
| 6 | In a similar fashion , all the representative bodies of the police — ACPO , the Superintendents ' Association , and the Police Federation — were outraged at the creation of the Crown Prosecution Service in the Prosecution of Offences Act in the mid-1980s ; for one area of police power in the courts had been removed at one fell swoop and given to another arm of the executive . |
| 7 | If the legislature finds that limitations on the common law principle are needed for reasons of policy or good administration then they can be adopted by legislation , e.g. by a short limitation period , presumptions as to validity , even ( which I mention but do not necessarily think appropriate since the matter has not been discussed ) a power in the courts to limit the effects of any order for recovery comparable to that conferred on the European Court of Justice by article 174 of the E.E.C . |
| 8 | The use of the contractual conception of the company to give legitimacy to the vesting of managerial power in the directors of the company encountered two difficulties . |
| 9 | The first is that the corporate constitution does not provide that the members shall decide how the business is run , but vests decision-making power in the directors and managers . |
| 10 | Before discussing this use , which is arguably the most significant benefit of using computing power in the personnel field , it may be worthwhile to answer the question " What is a model ? " |
| 11 | First , every king when he came of age had remarkably little difficulty in getting rid of the faction which had been dominant during the minority ; Albany Stewarts , Livingstones , Boyds , Douglases , the families who had enjoyed power in the minorities of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries , all lost it when the king began his personal rule . |
| 12 | There is a sense of isolation from the rest of the world , a sense of the power in the dogs , and a wonderful feeling of being in control , but only just . |
| 13 | Tenth-century kings tried to achieve a balance between secular and ecclesiastical power in the localities rather than to crush the former ; this was demonstrably the aim of Otto I and Otto II when disposing of the tributes exacted from the Slav peoples . |
| 14 | The combined effect of the purges and the anti-Nonconformist propaganda was to put power in the localities into the hands of people who were determined to protect the Church and State from both popery and fanaticism through a strict adherence to the rule of law . |
| 15 | This in itself was to be a major factor in Franco 's permanence in power in the years to come . |
| 16 | In a statement on Feb. 5 the Russian Federation Foreign Ministry had declared that the four republics had agreed that a union treaty must be based on " declarations of state sovereignty and bilateral treaties adopted and concluded by the supreme bodies of legal power in the republics " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Oh Dave , my journey , running about early in the morning to leave everything tidy for the chaps , came out without anything inside their tum , provided that I could have coffee on the , in the buffet car on the train from Stow Market , no hot drinks madam , we have n't got enough power in the batteries , I thought well you know it 's all , we got to Liverpool Street on time |
| 19 | There is great healing power in the words , ‘ Please forgive me . ’ |
| 20 | The power in the sails lifted the yacht so that she left two long trails of dark blue in the spray . |
| 21 | Those priorities have reflected politicians ' prime concern : to centralize economic power in the hands of the government in a way which matched the centralization of political power as expressed through the one-party state . |
| 22 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 23 | This places power in the hands of party managers and not elected representatives . |
| 24 | Because , according to Pöhl , ‘ monetary policy must not be obstructed by fiscal policy ’ , an ‘ independent ’ central bank would not only be completely unprecedented in recent history , it would also represent an immense concentration of power in the hands of unaccountable bankers , who would perforce be implementing policies which might be very unpopular , within an area in which there may well not be the kind of national consensus which obtains in Germany . |
| 25 | ‘ It concentrates power in the hands of a few , necessitates a military-style secrecy and undermines the principles of human liberty . |
| 26 | The first lay in the effect it might have on teaching and learning and the second in too great a concentration of power in the hands of the government of the day and especially with one person , the Secretary of State . |
| 27 | The net result is the concentration of effective power in the hands of the government . |
| 28 | Others again suggest that the rapid growth of the physical sciences has placed enormous power in the hands of a species , Homo sapiens , that is socially underdeveloped . |
| 29 | It might be comforting to see the balance of power in the hands of the defence rather than the offence — but there is no assurance it would stay there . |
| 30 | In the south , especially in the Italian cities , the influence of Roman Law , which placed far more power in the hands of the magistrates than of the ‘ suitors ’ , tended to destroy the quasi-democratic character of the old popular courts . |