stretch of power

Even many Liberal Democrats are now critical of the arrogance that so long a stretch of power has bred.

- To promote, such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, the future welfare of the very beings whose present existence they imbitter by the most despotic stretch of power.

DIFFICULT RIDE - Rail service from Connecticut to New York City came to a jarring halt when two commuter trains pulled down a milelong stretch of power lines.

Still in its infancy, the Urban Wildlife Sanctuary network now has seven members, including a Virginia property owner who turned a quarter-mile stretch of power lines into a "butterfly garden"; and a utility company that has a 1,400-acre site on Chesapeake Bay, where herons and egrets nest.

Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or the natural selfishness of sensibility expanded by reflection, are very unfit to manage a family; for, by an undue stretch of power, they are always tyrannizing to support a superiority that only rests on the arbitrary distinction of fortune.

But to subjugate a rational being to the mere will of another, after he is of age to answer to society for his own conduct, is a most cruel and undue stretch of power; and, perhaps, as injurious to morality as those religious systems which do not allow right and wrong to have any existence, but in the Divine will.