Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to power [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this rise to power of a single male deity and the concomitant lessening in status of the other members of the Israelite pantheon ( especially its female members ) , the role played by women in public religion began to diminish . |
| 2 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 3 | In the long term the crowning of Charles by Leo III led to an increasing papal claim to power over the imperial ruler of the West , but short-term benefits to Charles were clear . |
| 4 | ‘ After the coup that brought the Ba'athist government to power in Iraq , I was a consultant to the new regime . |
| 5 | Nor was it surprising that after the apparently mindless brutality of the Amin years , Obote 's eventual return to power in 1980 was characterized by the continuing dominance of the army as the real force in Ugandan politics , supporting a parliamentary facade of no real legitimacy . |
| 6 | On first returning to power in 1979 the Conservatives set out to make piecemeal adjustments to the social security system . |
| 7 | It might be assumed that forcible resistance to power without right must itself be legal and not revolutionary ; but in every case there seems no recourse except to force of some kind . |
| 8 | The return of the Conservative Party to power in 1979 simply accelerated the collapse of regional policies ; they were now seen as unhelpful both in theoretical as well as pragmatic terms . |
| 9 | The ascent of the Labour Party in West Ham during the early interwar years can be thought coterminous with its emergence from political obscurity to power in the metropolis as a whole , but there are considerable theoretical and empirical problems in the equation that challenge any such identification . |
| 10 | The spectacular rise to power throughout the 1920s suddenly came to a halt , betrayed by the leaders who had inspired it . |
| 11 | A wafer-thin election victory returned the British Labour Party to power after 13 years . |
| 12 | His subsequent rise to power as the charismatic leader of Britain 's ‘ war socialism ’ provides the best illustration of the tendency for left and right-wing collectivism to converge around a nationalist economics utterly alien to the Cobdenite traditions of the pacifists . |
| 13 | Following James 's death in 1625 , the relationship between the English church and the major religious factions in Europe was to be markedly changed by the accession of Charles I and the subsequent rise to power of William Laud and the English Arminians . |
| 14 | When the subsequent rise to power of the Independent New Model Army in the period following the end of the war prevented the English Presbyterians from delivering this promise , the Scots promptly looked elsewhere . |