residual power
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of residual power
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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His residual power, which he must use or lose, is to influence his party’s selection of candidates for state and federal offices.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022
To varying degrees, those businesses and others still trade on the residual power of their founders’ personality and vision.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2018
But this is not simply about the residual power of a state attorney general to prosecute in the wake of a presidential pardon.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018
Huang chose to sign with ABC in deference to the residual power of network television to alter mass perceptions about race, and he had hoped to portray the Asian-immigrant experience without equivocation or compromise.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015
Others disintegrated on their own as the residual power of Diocletian’s sceptre finally failed.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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