Example sentences of "power [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in modern society , power is conceived on the lines of a structuralism , in which it is impersonal structures that exercise power over individuals . |
| 2 | The problem confronting Bradley was that Los Angeles operates according to a structure of authority in which power is devolved between the mayor , the city council and tenured civil servants . |
| 3 | Power is transmitted between the discs by rollers at right-angles to the main shaft . |
| 4 | Dahl argued that power is fragmented between the different groups involved in the decision-making process since different groups got their way on different issues . |
| 5 | ‘ . If we assume — and it is probably the right assumption — that students can no longer easily read isolated literary texts , but need to make sense of them in a variety of contexts , much power is given to the teacher who decides which are the relevant cultural codes to be invoked and expounded ; Marxists , at least , are specific on the matter . |
| 6 | Power is given in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 to award compensation of up to £1000 to a client who has been the victim of shoddy work . |
| 7 | In the pass bands , by contrast , u is in the range 0 to -1 so that and are real resistances and , under correct termination , power is fed into the filters . |
| 8 | Its power is determined by the degree to which it aids what that whole social structure reports as its desires . |
| 9 | Officials are given the power and authority to carry out tasks , but that power is limited by the rules which govern their office . |
| 10 | Democracy as a system of government is , then , a system by which power is exerted by the state over individuals and groups within it . |
| 11 | Real power is exercised through the Northern Ireland Office and its Irish counterparts . |
| 12 | In modernity , power is exercised via the mediations of Bourdieu 's fields , which are in effect structures . |
| 13 | Our vision of the new Europe is of a federal community , where power is exercised at the lowest level consistent with good government . |
| 14 | Effective political power is exercised by the leadership of the sole legal political organization , the Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) . |
| 15 | Executive power is exercised by the State Council ( Cabinet ) which is elected by the NPC . |
| 16 | Executive power is exercised by the President who appoints and leads the Cabinet . |
| 17 | Executive power is exercised by the State Council which is elected by the NPC . |
| 18 | Such power is represented by the official hierarchy of subordination which characterizes formal organization . |
| 19 | Power is increased from the old 3.2 litre engine 's 231bhp to 250bhp . |
| 20 | Although the balance of power is shifting against the commission , in absolute terms it will gain power . |
| 21 | The right of someone to exercise power is sanctioned by the organisation 's rules . |
| 22 | Quite clearly the court 's attitude to intervention to control and abuse of power is affected by the nature of the power being exercised . |
| 23 | When the Legislative Power is united with the Executive Power in the same person or body of magistrates , there is no liberty because it is to be feared that the same Monarch or the same Senate will make tyrannical laws in order to execute them tyrannically . |
| 24 | The volume of support for Sakharov broke through to the Moscow centre where power is wielded over the world from lofty isolation , where ‘ they ’ make their decisions . |
| 25 | my bargaining power is based on the losses which you would suffer if you were to agree or disagree with my proposal |
| 26 | your bargaining power is based on the losses I would suffer if I were to agree or disagree with your proposals . |
| 27 | Although with held constant in some way ( making infinite in equation ( 10.22 ) ) , the output resistance is indeed and maximum signal power is transferred between the output signal source and load when , the input signal power then depends on through because the latter affects the reverse transfer e.m.f. and hence . |
| 28 | Bureaucratic power is strengthened by the uniformity of this class : |
| 29 | JD Power is negotiating with the DVLA to use its lists of car owners and addresses . |
| 30 | Under the Constitution of December 1983 executive power is held by the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term , while legislative power is vested in the unicameral Legislative Assembly ( which replaced the National Constituent Assembly in March 1985 ) with 60 members similarly elected for a three-year term . |