Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in power " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they was gon na take a bigger risk , in keeping them in power so that they can achieve their longer term ends . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ The best way to get rid of them is to baptise them in power . ’ |
| 3 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 4 | The old dictator , General Augusto Pinochet , called a referendum that he hoped would confirm him in power , and was baffled when he lost it . |
| 5 | So in wooing militants he is not seeking only to heal the wounds of Punjab and Assam — he is following the one strategy which might sustain him in power . |
| 6 | Faced with opposition from his own forces , Franco was not guided by ideological principles nor personal loyalty , but purely and simply by whatever would keep him in power . |
| 7 | It placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many , many years . |
| 8 | For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power . |
| 9 | Soon , though , she drops her fancy prose and concentrates on the relationship , almost sexual in its intensity , between Mr Castro and enough Cubans to keep him in power without the brutal repression that most Caribbean dictators go in for . |
| 10 | In February 1974 , Mr Heath lost his overall majority , but remained in office for several days while he tried to do a deal with Mr Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberals to keep him in power . |
| 11 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 12 | The man he relied on to keep him in power . ’ |
| 13 | The US continued to pour money into the South to keep it in power , again sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process . |
| 14 | This work has come to be called the ‘ little g minor ’ , linking it in power and mood to the Symphony in the same key , K.550 of 1788 . |
| 15 | If Marcos was cynical , he was no more so than the American foreign policy which kept him in power and in clover for 20 years . |
| 16 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock even refuses to tell the voters whether he will abolish the system by which , he hopes , they will put him in power . |
| 18 | Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party . |