Examples of 'power lay' in a sentence

Meaning of "power lay"

power lay: This phrase is often used in the context of sports or fitness training. It refers to a technique or position where the individual is lying down or resting in order to conserve energy or recover strength before exerting power or energy

How to use "power lay" in a sentence

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power lay
The image of his power lay then on me.
His power lay in your recognizing that he possessed it.
Information to the people was where the power lay.
All such power lay with the states.
But he was always clear about where the real power lay.
This power lay in his eyes.
It was clear to the princes that their power lay in their solidarity.
But her power lay in her extreme sensibility.
This was not the case at present given the major power lay with the Council.
That power lay with him.
However, there was no longer any doubt where the real power lay.
The power lay behind him.
They adapted themselves to a situation where political, economic and cultural power lay with a colonising power.
As a novelist his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties.
Poundmaker, along with mistahi-maskwa ( Big Bear ), became convinced that power lay in numbers.

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The real power lay only in the hands of the first three.
Government could no longer tolerate a situation in which power lay in Nhu's hands, it said.
But real power lay in the Senate.
Despite his legend as a bison caller, Poundmaker 's true power lay in his diplomatic abilities.
Executive power lay in the King and his ministers.
Despite the presence of a state government, real power lay in the Bogd Khaan 's court.
The centre of their power lay around Loch Gabhair in modern County Meath.
Further, all the legal obligations as mandatory Power lay with South West Africa.
I noted what power lay in the work I fashioned.
Government could no longer tolerate a situation S. in which power lay in Nhu 's hands, it said.
Shakespeare 's power lay in the narrative that he wove over the audience.
The source of His power lay in His name.
Legislative power lay with the National Assembly, which included many deputies belonging to opposition parties.
Nevertheless, the preponderance of power lay greatly in favour of the Red Army.
The real power lay with the voivodeship-and, to a lesser extent, with ziemias lands.
To the Englishman, the route to power lay in public administration or in parliamentary politics.
And power lay waste Creation ; what poet 's pen.
The family's power lay in the west of Wessex.
The real power lay in the hands of Adib al-Shishakli.
No grand vision of American power lay behind the Hawaiian revolution of 1893.
Our Saviour 's power lay not in a strong array of sharp words.
Its primary striking power lay in the 23 modern submarines assigned to the Asiatic Fleet.
The executive power lay with the King, who appointed and dismissed his ministers.

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