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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
impower .
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Examples
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Public opinion impowers the man of law when this is done, to advertise the negro in the newspapers, warning his owner to come and claim him, or he will be sold to pay the jail fees.
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President of Malawi Dr Bingu Wa Mutharika has threatened that he will call for early general elections should the opposition insist that they will not pass they 2007/2008 budget until section 65 which impowers the speaker to declare seats of Members of Parliament vacant is invoked.
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Dorchester vs. A.B. &c. There is a special Law of this Province, which impowers
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Public opinion impowers the man of law when this is done, to advertise the negro in the newspapers, warning his owner to come and claim him, or he will be sold to pay the jail fees.
American Notes Charles Dickens 1841
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Page xxv more essential principle, which secretly operates within? that which animates the inimitable machines, which gives them motion, impowers them to act speak and perform, this must be divine and immortal?
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It is your money, that is the spring of all, that impowers him to go on: So that whatever he or the African does in this matter, it is all your act and deed.
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-- Your petitioner, therefore, who has never, been upon his _knees before_ to any man living, humbly prays that he may be admitted within your park-pail, and that he may partake of that bounty which you bestow in common to your own servants, who, by age or misfortunes are past their labour; in which request your petitioner's master impowers him to use his name and joint prayer with
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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And therefore we see, that in assemblies, impowered to act by positive laws, where no number is set by that positive law which impowers them, the act of the majority passes for the act of the whole, and of course determines, as having, by the law of nature and reason, the power of the whole.
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And therefore we see, that in assemblies, impowered to act by positive laws, where no number is set by that positive law which impowers them, the act of the majority passes for the act of the whole, and of course determines, as having, by the law of nature and reason, the power of the whole.
Second Treatise of Government John Locke 1668
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But I answer positively to what he would be at; that the Law of self-preservation impowers not a Subject to rise in Arms against his Soveraign, of another
His Majesties Declaration Defended John Dryden 1665
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