be in the power of
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The Mediterranean, the Levant and Egypt, will be in the power of France the moment a British squadron ceases to have for base a good port protected by formidable fortifications....
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
And what is most important of all is, that, although some things may be in our power, yet they will not be in the power of that man who assents to nothing.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
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
If I am right here, the patriarch would be in the power of his women, much more surely than they would be in his power.
From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
They looked eagerly out, but could scarcely believe that it would be in the power of those two occupants to rescue them.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Hope, Eva
