Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dulac 's version of the interview is to be believed , de Gaulle acknowledged the possibility that he might have to come to power after a military operation against Paris . |
| 2 | To these offences were soon added the brutal measures which the Bolsheviks took to cling to power , the barbarous excesses of the ‘ Red Terror ’ during the Civil War ( 1918–20 ) , the suppression of all rival parties , the curtailment of liberties as basic as freedom of speech and conscience . |
| 3 | His present campaign of eloquent pleading for Corea is a manoeuvre by which he hopes to ride to power as a national hero . |
| 4 | Few would argue with the proposition that it should never be allowed to return to power . |
| 5 | Preparing to return to power : The Khmer Rouge , whose atrocities of the mid-Seventies have become notorious , is increasingly likely to form part of any new government in Cambodia . |
| 6 | It is a weapon in the armoury of everyone who aspires to power , and more importantly of everyone who seeks to cling to power . |
| 7 | Now Pol Pot is poised to return to power . |
| 8 | Now Pol Pot is poised to return to power . |
| 9 | Justin Lekhanya , the former Chair of the Military Council , was placed under house arrest on Aug. 1 following allegations that he was plotting to return to power ; he was prohibited from associating with anyone other than his family and his doctor . |
| 10 | Fawehinmi , charged over a magazine article in which he accused Babangida of planning to cling to power , had already been sentenced on Jan. 5 to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court , but had been released on bail pending an appeal . |