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Example sentences for "this power"

  • Consequently it follows that the first principle of this power must be Harmony.

  • In the exercise of this power, in which the people have no participation, Congress legislate in all cases directly on the local concerns of the District.

  • To deny to the President the exercise of this power would be to repeal that provision of the Constitution which confers it upon him.

  • From the exercise of this power no danger is to be apprehended.

  • Now suppose we look abroad, and try to find something in regard to the nature of this Power.

  • In sailing days, of course, this power of the supporting ship was weak owing to the imperfection of the means of distant communication between ships at sea and the non-existence of such means beyond extreme range of vision.

  • This power is the real fruit of victory, the power to strangle the whole national life.

  • Important as this power of resistance in the screen was in the old days, it is tenfold more important now, and the consequent difficulty of keeping cruisers distinct from battleships is greater than ever.

  • This power of bold and sure adjustment between cohesion and reach is indeed a supreme test of that judgment which in the conduct of war takes the place of strategical theory.

  • This power of growth and division is almost incredible.

  • By purely empirical means mankind has learned methods of encouraging the development of some of these products, and is to-day making practical use of this power, possessed by bacteria, of furnishing desired chemical compounds.

  • This power of resisting the activities of the parasites seems to be increased during the progress of the disease, and, if it becomes sufficient, it finally drives off the bacteria before they have produced death.

  • It is this power of multiplication by division that makes bacteria agents of such significance.

  • You have, of course, considered the logical result of this power carried to its ultimate possibility.

  • I might remark in passing that the existence of this power to direct or focus the more rapid ethereal vibrations would be a discovery of considerable scientific moment.

  • This power Monsieur X, as I call him--the Unknown--has employed in fantastic manifestations designed solely for the purpose of frightening his enemy into leaving this country.

  • No man has ever before attained this knowledge or this power," went on Darrow, after a moment; "and probably never again in the history of the race will exactly this combination of luck and special talent occur.

  • This power of discrimination, however, is as nothing compared to that which some florists have acquired.

  • This power in the flower of resisting cold and afterwards producing fruit does not invariably depend, as we know on good authority (24/51.

  • How can we make intelligible and connect with other facts, this wonderful and common capacity of reversion,--this power of calling back to life long-lost characters?

  • This power of touch is recognized in all history and in all climes.

  • Descending to the sphere of animals, we find some curious facts having relation to this power.

  • We shall find further evidence of this power when we come to consider the case of the artificial class.

  • This power, which nature has placed ready made at our hand, is so abundant that it can never be exhausted.

  • I should like to illustrate by a few simple instances the use that scientific men have already made of this power of imagination, and to indicate afterwards some of the further uses that they are likely to make of it.

  • Scientific men fight shy of the word because of its ultra-scientific connotations; but the fact is that without the exercise of this power, our knowledge of nature would be a mere tabulation of co-existences and sequences.

  • And now,' continued X, 'this power has so risen as to reveal to me the thoughts of others.

  • You are right in saying that in opposition to this Power science is of no avail--that it is 'a weapon of air.

  • This power of erosion, so strikingly displayed when sand is urged by air, renders us better able to conceive its action when urged by water.

  • They seem to have placed an undue value on this power; to have exalted it above it's place, particularly as it concerned themselves.

  • Devoid of this power, he could not be accountable.

  • He felt himself possessed of this power, and appealed to our Lord whether he did not possess it.

  • How can we make intelligible, and connect with other facts, this wonderful and common capacity of reversion--this power of calling back to life long-lost characters?

  • Nevertheless it is quite conceivable that many of His miracles of healing may have been the result of this power of mind over body which we are now considering.

  • We know almost nothing of the extent of this power, of its laws, of its limits.

  • This power is most distinctly felt when it is resisted.

  • Imagination is this power to see and show things in the concrete.

  • This power of imagination makes of him a continual seeker, "a pilgrim upon earth.

  • This power of imagination shows the real character of a thing and describes it by its spiritual effects.

  • This power of life will enable the story-teller to enter, at the same time, into the life of the story she tells, and the life of those listening, to see the gift of the one and the need of the other.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this affair; this age; this castle; this country; this course; this district; this gentleman; this great; this hour; this mountain; this old; this our; this period; this practice; this region; this season; this speech; this spot; this stage; this substance; this truth; this vast; this vessel; this woman; this word; till finally