be in the power of
Example Sentences
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This may not be in the power of every body; casts, however, may be frequently obtained from the best statues; and many of the finest works of painting are rendered familiar to us by engravings.
From Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress by Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia
If we continue to do thus, it will not be in the power of the execrable junto to prevent us from having a safe and honorable peace next winter.
From The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia by Wharton, James
It ought not to be in the power of Congress, either by treaty or otherwise, to alienate part of any state without the consent of the legislature. 2d.
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester
Oh, my dove! my dove! that you should be in the power of this vulture!
From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
He felt his life to be in the power of each of those blackguards, with whom, in wretched equality, he had been drinking on the previous evening.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Trollope, Anthony
