powers that be
Example Sentences
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As major league owners meet this week to plot strategy, the powers that be will consider the probable push for a salary cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
"Abandoned is one of the strongest words you can use. I have never seen a manager interview like that before. You could see he was raging with the powers that be at the football club."
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
But ultimately, the argument was a fabulous spectacle; zippy and podcast-y—the muscular elements of style that the powers that be assert the Democrats are missing.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
They could fund — and did — projects that weren’t commercially viable, that went against the status quo and the interests of the powers that be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
He thanks the powers that be that Trina can’t read his mind.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
