Example sentences of "have [noun] power " in BNC.

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1 As a creative and economic force in the international art scene , Cologne clearly has staying power .
2 Now in a sense , it has n't changed it 's form one little bit , it is still a pound it is still currency , it still has purchasing power , the only problem is , it 's just out of your reach , and you ca n't get at it .
3 the setting of prices and returns on assets held by the private sector especially when the debtor has market power .
4 These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct .
5 That 's excellent when you can have battery power .
6 The study was designed to have 80% power to detect a treatment response of 20% with a standard deviation ( derived from existing data ) of 30% , at significance level 0.05 .
7 You need to have staying power .
8 You will need to have staying power to complete the examinations successfully — it normally takes at least 3 years .
9 supposed to have parent power are n't we ?
10 The study had 90% power to detect a difference in heart rate of 6.5 beats/min according to our previous study .
11 With 38 deaths over 2 years of follow-up among the 119 survivors of the hospital admission , the study had 80% power to detect a relative risk of 3.0 between the oldest and youngest age groups .
12 So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted .
13 I it was it was a co , it was , it was currency as far as you were concerned , you could use it , it had purchasing power .
14 The Shaw 's Have Staying Power
15 All human beings have reasoning power , world knowledge , and knowledge of at least one culture ; but the divisions between these categories , and the nature of their contents are not always clear .
16 There seems no real reason why managerial bonus schemes of the Finsinger and Vogelsang ( 1981 ) type can not be introduced in order to provide incentives to greater efficiency , and in fact these are more relevant than profit-based bonuses given that the firms concerned have monopoly power .
17 When firms have monopoly power , price and social marginal benefit of the last output unit exceed the private and social marginal cost of producing that last output unit .
18 These enable such entrants to charge a lower price than incumbents , cross-subsidising competitive deals ( e.g. in straight bonds ) from markets ( such as equity warrants ) where they have market power .
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