excess of power

This great excess of power was due to the fact that the latter came from the person turning the handle.

Or maybe it's due to that excess of power.

As for handling an excess of power, it is also almost instantaneous, he said.

The excess of power was such that manoeuvres in the vertical plane can only be described as rocket like.

Yet these exceptional extravagances came not of weakness but from excess of power.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected.

The Monolith was seen breaking up because of the excess of power absorbed, and then fled.

"Right now nobody can use this excess of power because every energy-intensive industry is also capital-intensive," Mr. Alamaro said.

The driving power from the falling weight is about 12 mW, so there is a substantial excess of power used to drive the escapement.

Ms. Faw's soprano was the most interesting: secure, intense and with a focus and concentration that made its excess of power acceptable in this small space.

Either an excess of power, causing the torch to cut too deeply, or a deviation of more than a few millimeters from the prescribed cutting path could have disabled essential circuits.

But ever since she had made the conscious decision to rebel against the wretched excesses of power dreamed up by the Reverend Mother she truly lived every day on a knife-edge.

Likewise, if your milk was gradually creeping back up to 5 degrees and the fridge sensed an excess of power available on the grid, it could switch on and cool slightly earlier.

It never doubts the motive power that will impel it; it is afraid, if anything, of an excess of power, and consciously imposes upon itself the limits which give it form.

He was a man who enjoyed the excesses of power as much as the Minister of Defense did, and he would use that power in whatever way he felt he must to get what he wanted.

If she wants a thumb, she makes one at the cost of arms and legs, and any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.

Though Mr. Kirchner's support "is a broad sea that is only an inch deep," she said, unless there is "a crisis generated by an excess of power or authoritarianism" on his part, he will coast to victory.

Since his role is to intervene when either Law or Chaos have gained an excess of power, he is always doomed to be surrounded by strife and destruction, although he may go through long periods of relative quiet.

The Communist Party and its leaders have been repeatedly held to blame in these days of legislative ferment for the country's crises of poverty, crime and environmental degradation, for a history of repression and an excess of power.

I can see no reasons in principle for limiting the availability of certiorari to a patent excess of power (as where a visitor has decided something which was not within his remit) and excluding review on other grounds recognised by the law.

Gradually, the Senshi are able to trick the two into blasting each other after Sailor Mercury uses her Bubble Spray attack to obscure their vision, killing both at the same time by filling their staffs with an excess of power.

Damian Deslucido and his brother, Rumail, exhibit a MacBeth-Lady MacBeth relationship: Rumail's raw ambition drives his rather hollow brother to excesses of power that he would not have sought on his own, and ultimately destroys both of them.

"This is a case where guidance can be given not to this independent counsel but every independent counsel about the excess of power," said Mr. Todd, who represents Michael C. Schaufele, one of Mr. Hubbell's tax advisers who was also named in the indictment.

And Peasimy reaches down, stronger than he could possibly be, tugging and lifting, pulling like a boatman at the capstan, hauling with an excess of power he has never had and will never have again, until she stands there, dripping on the jetty, peering at the town of Thou-ne.

Claims that the President is acting in excess of power would allow individuals to interfere in the conduct of foreign affairs: a successful domestic legal challenge to an agreement reached with Iran would have undermined the negotiation process and cast doubt on the efficacy of future negotiations with the United States.