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How to use the powers that be in a sentence

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Indeed, it is going to be a struggle bargaining with the powers that be to achieve our aspirations.
That is to say, the implications of their vote will be written off by the powers that be.
At least I was able to satisfy my inquisitors that I wasn't a Freemason, something which evidently bothers the powers that be a good deal.
If the powers that be truly wanted the discrimination to end they could do it in one fell swoop.
For someone who knows the table tennis game inside out those views ought to be taken on board by the powers that be.
And don't the powers that be realize the the more annoying and intrusive the ads are, the less we're going to want to look at them?
While most people are, no doubt, all for continuing to improve standards, it seems the powers that be are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
So this 300 or so words every month are hardly going to make one iota of a difference or influence incredulous decisions by the powers that be.
It would never have occurred to the powers that be to run and supervise the National Lottery from anywhere but London.
They fell foul of the powers that be, however, for their virulently outspoken stance in opposition to The Falklands War.
The paranoiac develops intricate fantasies of persecution in order to mask the unfaceable fact that the powers that be don't care about him.
In the facing of this offensive against the working class, the trade unions have demonstrated their complete prostration to the powers that be.
It is in this light that Romans 13 adjures people to obey the powers that be.
But each day, I thank the powers that be that I live in a country where assistance is available.
But is this new vehicle of unconstrained expression fated to come under the thumb of the powers that be?
And, because I'm a contrarian at heart, I'll root for perverse storylines that will upset the apple cart and disturb the powers that be.
After all, sticking up for what you believe in can get you into all kinds of scrapes and make you seriously unpopular with the powers that be.
For example, if the powers that be want to disenfranchise you or make you unemployable, that's one sure way to do it.
He then accused the powers that be of failing to appreciate younger people's culture.
The reason people stay at home is apathy, cultivated by a belief they won't be listened to by the powers that be.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I have been requested to take a holiday, and, rather than offend the powers that be, have given in.
The fact is, my dear fellow, there's dissension among the powers that be.
Now, the dominating trait, the peculiar and distinctive trait of the character of the Primate of the Gauls, was the spirit of the courtier, and devotion to the powers that be.
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