We found over 1000 examples of how to use power in an English sentence.
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| 1. | They induce uncertainty in muscle power, confusion in mind power, and imbecility in soul power. | |
| 2. | Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities. | |
| 3. | With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their present form these bombs are now in production and even more powerful forms are in development. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. | |
| 4. | With every increase of scientific knowledge, man's power for evil is increased in the same proportion as his power for good. | |
| 5. | The output power of a one square meter solar panel is about one watt, so it is difficult to use solar power on a large scale at present. | |
| 6. | Knowledge is power, but it is power for evil just as much as for good. | |
| 7. | Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. | |
| 8. | Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. | |
| 9. | The recent news about the Fukushima I nuclear power plant will likely strengthen the cause of the advocates who want to let our local nuclear power plant's license expire. | |
| 10. | Thanks to biofuel cells, one will soon be able to power one's mobile phone, MP3 player or Laptop without power plug but just sugar and water. | |
| 11. | My car has power windows and power door locks. | |
| 12. | The result of the invention of the steam engine was that human power was replaced by mechanical power. | |
| 13. | Do not use a power cord other than the supplied AC adaptor and AC power cord. | |
| 14. | The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. | |
| 15. | Patriotism in its simple, clear and plain meaning is nothing other to rulers than an instrument for achieving their power-hungry and self-serving goals. To those who are subjected to them, it is a denial of human dignity, reason, and conscience, as well as a slavish submission of themselves to those who are in power. | |
| 16. | When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. | |
| 17. | The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. | |
| 18. | "How are we gonna find the princess with the power going out?" "Well, maybe there's a switch in one of the rooms." "How are we gonna find the switch in one of the rooms with the power going out?" "...Uh, I dunno." | |
| 19. | The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. | |
| 20. | Is the power cord plugged into a power outlet? | |
| 21. | Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. | |
| 22. | Power should be a check to power. | |
| 23. | We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. | |
| 24. | Then trembling seized me and, amidst my fear, / what power I know not, but some power unkind / confused my wandering wits, and robbed me of my mind. / For while, the byways following, I left / the beaten track, ah! woe and well away! / my wife Creusa lost me – whether reft / by Fate, or faint or wandering astray, / I know not. | |
| 25. | Several of Germany's nuclear power stations are reducing energy output because rivers used to cool the power plants are too warm. |