Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality , of course , was that Rákosi intended to hang on to power . |
| 2 | On the first issue of political liberalism vs bureaucratic-authoritarianism , the popular dogma of the 1960s and 1970s — in Latin America especially — held that in poor countries , the ruling elites were mainly concerned to hang on to power and also to increase their own wealth , if necessary at the expense of the peasants and the urban proletariat . |
| 3 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 4 | It still has a minority government determined to hold on to power and interfering with the process of change by its illegal financial ( and other ) support of Inkatha . |
| 5 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 6 | The so- called middle class leaders of the P.N.M. have , up until now , managed to hold on to power , which is extraordinary considering they were ‘ so completely without ideas of any kind ’ . |