power on
Verb
Meaning
power on (third-person singular simple present powers on, present participle powering on, simple past and past participle powered on)
(transitive) To turn on (an electrical device).
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.