Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | COYHAIQUE , Chile ( AFP ) — President Pinochet said he has decided to abolish the secret police which he established 16 years ago , shortly after coming to power . |
| 2 | The membership ban would make sense if it was Labour Party policy to expel Northern Ireland from the UK immediately after coming to power . |
| 3 | Soon after coming to power , the Arena government instituted a new round of ‘ stabilization ’ measures in 1989 , including privatizations , currency devaluation and price hikes , particularly for public transport , which provoked a wave of popular discontent . |
| 4 | V. P. Singh " s minority Janata Dal government collapsed in November 1990 , only 11 months after coming to power . |
| 5 | Only a month ago , Mr Major gave the impression of clinging to power . |
| 6 | In such circumstances it is natural that Ministers should want to implement without undue delay policies for changes in the legal framework of the criminal law and for dealing with offenders which they may have espoused before coming to power . |
| 7 | The Republicans were fortunate in coming to power at a time of growing prosperity . |
| 8 | The political continuity is also apparent in the fact that the Conservatives did comparatively little , on returning to power in 1951 , to dismantle the ‘ welfare state ’ . |
| 9 | Labour opposed this measure and limited its impact , but on returning to power in 1979 the Conservatives , by reducing new expenditure on public housing , modifying the subsidy formula and encouraging rents to rise , set out to eliminate most subsidies to public housing . |
| 10 | SENIOR Bulgarian Communist Party leaders yesterday offered to resign after high-level accusations that they were closely associated with the fallen hardline leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov , and had implemented few changes since coming to power . |
| 11 | They have complained , above all , that they are not adequately reported by the federally owned media during or after the monthly meetings which they have held regularly since coming to power in October 1979 . |
| 12 | Faced with its gravest crisis since coming to power in May , the government on Oct. 28 secured the lifting of the traffic blockade by offering to reduce the price rise to 35 per cent . |
| 13 | On March 16-17 the National Salvation Front ( NSF ) held its first national convention since coming to power in December 1989 . |
| 14 | In a speech on Nov. 7 President Ben Ali said that there was no place in Tunisia for a religious political party , because " Islam is the religion of all and can not become an object of competition or sensationalism and can not be a springboard to coming to power " . |
| 15 | The reality , however , was that , once the great crisis failed to appear , de Gaulle played out his hand in a conventional electoral fashion , because he saw no alternative to coming to power in that way . |
| 16 | On coming to power in 997 , Stephen brought the nation fully into the Catholic Church , decisively turning Hungary 's face towards Rome rather than Byzantium . |
| 17 | On coming to power , SWAPO announced an ambitious programme of educational expansion , to provide ten years of schooling for all Namibians with English as the official language of instruction . |
| 18 | On coming to power , Lenin and his colleagues promptly deserted the Allied cause in the First World War and repudiated the massive loans which western investors had made in good faith to the tsarist government . |
| 19 | Despite the claims of its opponents that SWAPO was motivated by ideological extremism , the pragmatism it showed on coming to power , exemplified by the inclusion of non-SWAPO members in the government ( notably the white Finance Minister , Otto Herrigel ) was reflected in cautious economic policies and a policy of national reconciliation . |
| 20 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 21 | Whereas they expose themselves by coming to power , he can remain concealed indefinitely . |