power (sth) up
power
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈpaʊər/us
operated by electricity or a motor:
power tools
a power drill
used to describe something that shows that you are a busy important person in a company:
She was wearing her trademark power suit for the meeting.

Examples of power

power
With pretense, disguise, and unreflective belief in disinterested philosophical analysis, philosophers can easily objectify the interests of certain power groups, whether scientific or political.
Structural consistency is an example of a strong rule that has the power to invalidate changes that yield physically unsupportable designs.
The users of the water invested the communal power with the duty of protecting them against usurpers' efforts to divert the water.
As a result, returning refugees introduced new power objects that they carried with them from the localities where they had found refuge.
The specific power deposition must be reduced to avoid destruction of the target.
Indeed, the wish to avoid such veto power may both contribute to surplus coalitions and to grand coalitions between major parties.
Both models suggest that innovation is rarely a successful strategy for parties out of power.
Clearly, for values of around 1, this cannot be expected because past inflation has almost no predictive power.
The increase of voltage resulted in a sharp increase of the radiation power.
This considerably reduces the inherent power of his depiction of child labour.
Heuvel stresses he was a misfit, opposing the dominant trend and then, when what he advocated acquired power, turning against it as it became corrupt.
Business groups, as a specific subtype of concentrated interests, can benefit from firms' structural power.
The illustrative example relates to a power distribution system and would be a natural topic for electrical engineering students.
Yet interest analysis without power analysis is trajectories without motion, direction without energy.
Often the government's power was not sufficient to handle the affairs of beggars well.
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Collocations withpower

power

These are words often used in combination with power.

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accumulation of power
When it was used for the common good, the people prospered and witchcraft (the private accumulation ofpower which threatened societal order) was suppressed.
arrogance of power
It is about the arroganceofpower.
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