In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject.

More trusting in the power of rhetoric to support a republic, the Roman orator Cicero argued that art required something more than eloquence.

Back on Earth, Peter has used a global communication system to post political essays under the pseudonym " Locke ", hoping to establish himself as a respected orator ( which he believes will shortly lead him to political power despite his youth ).

Such was their power that even Voltaire, normally so antagonistic toward the clergy, praised the giftedness of Bossuet as an orator.

His power consisted in his personal influence, and as a debater rather than as an orator.

Harcourt enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator ; Speaker Onslow going so far as to say that " Harcourt had the greatest skill and power of speech of any man I ever knew in a public assembly.

He soon began to distinguish himself as an orator, and the three patriotic sermons he delivered at Bahia ( 1638 – 40 ) are remarkable for their imaginative power and dignity of language.

While admitting Cicero's chief fame as an orator, Parenti presents Cicero as a hypocrite, a sycophant, and a devious flatterer as well as noting abuse of power.

He was known as a compelling orator, delivering speeches supporting territorial expansion by the U. S. and increasing the power of the federal government.

His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

The demonstration of his power was never flamboyant or theatrical.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

It was apparent that Welch was in cahoots with Marshall and would use his power as D.A. to drag every possible sensation into the case.

At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.

The antenna patterns and the power gain at the peak of the beam were both measured ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958 ), so that the absolute power sensitivity of the antenna beam over the solid angle of the moon was known.

The power source was a commercial D. C. rectifier.

The rf power level was maintained small enough at all times to prevent obvious line shape distortions by saturation effects.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

But over and beyond the compelling need for a binding precedent decision, I am convinced that the decisions of the Superior Courts which in effect nullify the Secretary's Regulation are not a correct interpretation of the Secretary's power under the Federal law.

Amplitude modulation is inefficient in power usage ; at least two-thirds of the power is concentrated in the carrier signal, which carries no useful information ( beyond the fact that a signal is present ).

Under him, the Almoravids soon began to spread their power beyond the desert, and subjected the tribes of the Atlas Mountains.

He inherited an emirate on the verge of dissolution, his power extending not far beyond the vicinity of Córdoba.

Professional touring amplifiers often have input and / or output filtering to sharply limit frequency response beyond ; too much of the amplifier's potential output power would otherwise be wasted on infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies, and the danger of AM radio interference would increase.

The spiritual teacher Meher Baba described dualism as consisting of the opposites of experience, which must become balanced before one can go beyond them: " Evolution from the standpoint of the Creator is a divine sport, in which the Unconditioned tests the infinitude of His absolute knowledge, power and bliss in the midst of all conditions.

This process is greatly facilitated because the mind and the works of the mind are alone in our power, whereas all external things that aid life are beyond our control.

This tower represents Vathek's pride and his desire for a power that is beyond the reach of humans.

In military dictatorships, or governments which have arisen from coups d ' état, the position of commander-in-chief is obvious, as all authority in such a government derives from the application of military force ; occasionally a power vacuum created by war is filled by a head of state stepping beyond his or her normal constitutional role, as King Albert I of Belgium did during World War I.

According to the Supreme Court of the United States, the treaty power authorizes Congress to legislate under the Necessary and Proper Clause in areas beyond those specifically conferred on Congress ( Missouri v. Holland, 252 U. S. 416 ( 1920 )).

It has been proposed that the base of Clann Áeda mac Cináeda's power lay in the north of the kingdom of Alba, beyond the Mounth ( eastern Grampians ) in what had once been Fortriu and which was now called Moray ( in Irish annals of the period, MacBethad is occasionally referred to as King of Fortriu, as well as King / Mormaer of Moray, before his succession to the throne of Alba ).

If less than two years after his election, Somoza Garcia, defying the Conservative Party, declared his intention to stay in power beyond his presidential term.

There was very little, actually, beyond the determination of the men and women who believed in the power of the Opel idea and the 83 years over which it had been created.

However, certain higher ranks have additional powers to authorize certain aspects of police operations, such as a power to authorize a search of a suspect's house ( section 18 PACE in England and Wales ) by an officer of the rank of Inspector, or the power to authorize a suspect's detention beyond 24 hours by a Superintendent.

Since the founding of the United States, the power of the president and the federal government have grown substantially and each modern president, despite possessing no formal legislative powers beyond signing or vetoing congressionally passed bills, is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of his party and the foreign and domestic policy of the United States.

They interpret this as referring to three successive stages, with baptism following on becoming a disciple ( which is beyond the power of an infant ), and instruction following on baptism, not preceding it.

Detailed study of infantry combat during and after WWII revealed that most small-arms engagements occurred within 100 meters, meaning that the power and range of the traditional. 30-caliber weapons ( designed for engagements at 500 meters and beyond ) was essentially wasted.

Efforts to deal with both the Parthians and the Jews as well as retain control of the provinces at the same time proved beyond the weakened empire's power.

Some would carry that interpretation to the spear that frequently is associated with Athena, interpreting her spear as a symbolic connection to some of Zeus ' power beyond the Aegis once he rose to replacing other deities in the pantheon.

The Tudors extended their power beyond modern England, achieving the full union of England and the Principality of Wales in 1542 ( Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542 ); and successfully asserting English authority over the Kingdom of Ireland.

This proposed legislation would "... declare that any firearms made and retained in-state are beyond the authority of Congress under its constitutional power to regulate commerce among the states ".

In Perry v. United States ( 1935 ), the Supreme Court ruled that under Section 4 voiding a United States government bond " went beyond the congressional power.

Recognizing that the extension of processing power into everyday scenarios would necessitate understandings of social, cultural and psychological phenomena beyond its proper ambit, Weiser was influenced by many fields outside computer science, including " philosophy, phenomenology, anthropology, psychology, post-Modernism, sociology of science and feminist criticism.