Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] power by " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE man who took office as President of Panama early yesterday morning was popularly elected last spring but had to wait more than six months before being thrust into power by the United States . |
| 2 | This support can be turned into power by an astute patron . |
| 3 | It was ironic indeed ( although , of course , no one mentioned it ) that , having risen to power by lambasting the liberal democracies as " anti-Spain " , Franco 's permanence from the 1950s onwards owed a great deal to the political and economic capital invested in Spain by those same nations . |
| 4 | He poured scorn on the Conservatives ' pre-election assurances on their low-tax policy , describing the Government as ‘ political cheats who have got into power by sheer dishonesty and by defrauding the electorate ’ . |
| 5 | The ruling royal family have been embezzling oil revenues and have been ousted from power by the Safran Peoples ' Liberation Party . |
| 6 | Whilst Williams and his coterie were planning their strategy , there were also some political developments of note in Jamaica , where in January the Jamaican Labour Party was ousted from power by Norman Manley 's People 's National Party , a success firmly rooted in mass popular support for a charismatic leader . |
| 7 | Elections for the republican assemblies held there during April-May 1990 [ see pp. 37381-82 ] resulted in the communists being ousted from power by opposition parties , although a direct presidential election in Slovenia was won by the candidate of the Party of Democratic Renewal ( LCS — the renamed Slovene League of Communists — see p. 37381 ) . |
| 8 | That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 . |
| 9 | The KPRP , as the pro-Vietnamese wing of the Cambodian communist movement , was placed in power by Vietnam in 1979 . |
| 10 | Chea Sim , Hun Sen and Heng Samrin were the only members of the Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Council placed in power by the Vietnamese in 1979 who still held positions of power in Phnom Penh . |
| 11 | He evidently hoped that he would be recalled to power by popular acclamation and that the parties would be unable to work without him . |
| 12 | Interestingly , V. P. Singh 's National Front government had been swept to power by northern voters in November 1989 [ see p. 37030 ] . |
| 13 | It was the first occasion on which the country had voted since Gen. Manuel Noriega was removed from power by US forces in December 1989 and replaced by President Guillermo Endara Gallimany [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 14 | This had been consolidated in power by the end of the fourteenth century , after the one serious attempt to overthrow it . |
| 15 | If Cambodians fear the Khmers Rouges enough , they may forgive the Phnom Penh government for having been put in power by the Vietnamese . |
| 16 | Excluded from power by the new king who understandably distrusted them , discredited by their connexion with the defeated Jacobites , the Tories as a significant Parliamentary group soon ceased to exist . |
| 17 | Brent Council : a minority Tory administration kept in power by the two-member ‘ Democratic Labour Party ’ , two Africanist former Labour councillors , one of whom has publicly praised Idi Amin and is under investigation by the fraud squad . |
| 18 | No doubt , they — particularly the Gulf states — will be kept in power by Western arms , if popular unrest should threaten their survival , whatever Western hopes for immediate military withdrawal at the end of current hostilities might have been . |