As a matter of fact, the object does attract us and acquire a power over us in this manner, and this not merely here and there but over a wide area in movements which affect and transform the whole of life.
But even in the service which they render man these forces have won a power over him, since with a determining power they keep his activity and his thought bent upon themselves.
Among the deities of invention, the general rule is, with respect to the exercise of power over nature or the human mind, that it is confined to matters in immediate connection with their several specialties.
To Minerva alone is ascribed a power over death: and this seems to be a power of subsequent rescue, and not one of absolute exemption.
Pride has its root in Satan; but so long as thou canst preserve thy humility, turning thyself to God from all thine iniquities, so long he can have no power over thee.
So powerful is the grace of God in humble souls, that if they will be true to themselves the devil can have no power over them.
I do not want the liberty of men, nor their equality; I want only my power over them, I want to make them my property, i.
If they are competent to cause you to desire their continued existence, they have a power over you.
It has given me power over all motives, over the impulses of my nature as well as over the exactions and violences of the world.
To him who exercised utterly no power over you, you would vouchsafe nothing; he might perish.
She loved animals and possessed much power over them.
They are very jealous of any attempt to exercise power over them not sanctioned by long usage and by their own opinion of right; but they in general care very little for the exercise of power over others.
But the exercise of any political function, either as an elector or as a representative, is power over others.
P: And if they would betray thee, they betrayed Allah before, and He gave (thee) power over them.
My slaves, thou hast nopower over any of them save such of the froward as follow thee, S: Surely.
Allah, and so hath He given (thee) power over them.
By practicing severe austerities he will acquire this power, and with my blessing, illusion will have no power over him.
To them, he replied, 'Death, O lords of men, hath no power over us!
The self-restrained person who acquires mastery over the six senses inherent in our nature, is never tainted with sin, and consequently evil has no power over him.
He adopted a third course, which proved that Romola retained one sort of power over him--the power of dread.
Fra Girolamo is a man to make one understand that there was a time when the monk's frock was a symbol of power over men's minds rather than over the keys of women's cupboards.
Gentlemen, I regret that slavery exists in the Southern States; but it is clear and certain that Congress has no power over it.
The United States possess the general power over navigation, and, of course, ought to control, in general, the use of navigable waters.
While they governed the laity, the laity had no power over them.
But space had no power over it, nor any of the material obstacles which limit an ordinary power.
Ye read, so long as the children of Israel kept the commandments of God, so long their enemies had no power over them, but God took vengeance of their enemies.
The fair Delany stood trembling behind the pious father; and on the fiends feeling their want of power over him, they rushed at the young virgin.
Those who chose the better part became at last so exalted that evil had no power over them, and they were happy for ever and ever.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "power over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
