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Example sentences for "that power"

  • Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.

  • It implies the absurdity, that power to obey God is obedience itself.

  • Now if you ask me what is that power, which is never exerted without Divine efficiency?

  • It says, also, that power to sin implies power to be holy; and of course we become holy by the same power as that by which we sin.

  • What is that power, or property, or faculty of the mind, which constitutes man a free moral agent?

  • And it must move as that power directs, or it is the hand of Omnipotence that urges it on.

  • If you have power to make me dream, that power must be from somewhere.

  • But as that power, inferior to the power of God, cannot act without his permission, we may indirectly admit that it is the will of Heaven that such sighs and portents should be allowed to be given on certain occasions.

  • Mortals in power, possessing nothing but what is mundane, are answerable for the use of that power; so those gifted by superior means are answerable as they employ those means.

  • In such a state man acknowledged a power beyond himself--beyond visible nature: his mind, his heart, his imagination were filled with the sense of that power.

  • In the transmission of that Power to the persons to whom He gave it He observed two principles: that of unity, and that of hierarchical subordination.

  • He who speaks in this language intimates thereby that he has power to deprive of the liturgic office, that is, of the episcopate, and acknowledges that he will have to answer for the exercise of that power.

  • Because, being intended to express nothing but the power in things to produce in the mind such a sensation, that sensation, when it is produced, cannot but be the effect of that power.

  • Our idea of liberty reaches as far as that power, and no farther.

  • That power might be abused, was, to persons of this opinion, a conclusive argument against its being bestowed; and they seemed firmly persuaded that the cradle of the constitution would be the grave of republican liberty.

  • Sir, it was done by that power which is now regulating the affairs of the civilized world.

  • I tell you, sir, that power is cumulative, and that patronage begets power.

  • Such are the foundations of that power of judging and punishing which is entire society.

  • It is hence concluded, that power belongs of right to priesthoods, which have the secret of the designs of God, and represent his sovereign authority.

  • Singular destiny of that power, so often misconceived, and yet so manifest!

  • But I observe that in such questions regarding Almighty power, your enquiries relate, not to that power as it is actually displayed in the universe, but to the power of your own imagination.

  • That power is Russia; and how can you blame these people, if in such circumstances, they are disposed to say, Russia is our friend?

  • This word is derived from doxa, opinion, and signifies that which is apprehended by opinion, or that power which is the extremity of the rational soul.

  • This word is derived from [Greek: dianoia], or that power of the soul which reasons scientifically, deriving the principles of its reasoning from intellect.

  • The committee say, that if it had been intended that Congress should prescribe the qualifications of electors, the grant would have given Congress that power specifically.

  • For the power that gave, can take away, and of that power she is no part.

  • And to these I add what was indeed transacted in another quarter--the gallant enterprise of Captain Rodgers in destroying on the coast of Tripoli a corvette of that power of 22 guns.

  • I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean, with assurances to that power of our sincere desire to remain in peace, but with orders to protect our commerce against the threatened attack.

  • This conduct on the part of that power is without cause and without explanation.


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