Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to power [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the rise to power of individuals in the closing decades of the Roman Republic many magistrates advertised their right to office by reminding the populace of the virtues of their ancestors through portraits reproduced on the coins they were authorised to mint . |
| 2 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 3 | With the fall of Clarendon and the rise to power of George Villiers , second Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , his ally in the session of 1666–7 , Garway was appointed in 1668 to the committee of trade . |
| 4 | The growth and consolidation of the nation state is intimately connected , in all its phases , with the rise to power of the bourgeoisie . |
| 5 | But as the critics also point out , this trend itself has a political character , and may be interpreted as the consequence of the rise to power of a new technical-bureaucratic class or elite . |
| 6 | The rise to power of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980 led to a revival of the Iraqi claim to the islands . |
| 7 | Together or separately , the two of them may hold the key to power after the election . |
| 8 | But to realise the blossoming of those parties is Labour 's most important challenge , the key to power in four years ' time . |
| 9 | In fact , even as he spoke , the forces for change were there and rallying : the critique of the established constitutional authorities was eating into things below the froth of party politics ; the Liberal-SDP Alliance considered that the " key to … change lies in electoral and constitutional reform " ; and Tony Benn , generally recognised as leader of the radical left in the Labour Party , was telling large and enthusiastic audiences up and down the country that " constitutional questions are the key to power in a parliamentary democracy " and that " socialists need to give at least as much attention to the institutions of the state as to the power structure of the economy " . |
| 10 | This grew with the coming to power of de Gaulle and the personal understanding he was able to reach with Adenauer . |
| 11 | The problems which derive from the decline in the industrial structure which gave rise to the North East as an industrial region have been recognized since the 1930s , and until the coming to power of the present government the same core strategy informed attempts to resolve them . |
| 12 | He 's forced the Libyan government a cause for celebration the tenth anniversary of the coming to power of their president Colonel Gadaffi . |
| 13 | Moreover , with the advent to power of the Peruvian military radicals in 1968 , the brief rule of left-wing General Torres in Bolivia in 1970 and the election of Chile 's popular Unity in September 1970 , the arguments for a ‘ peaceful road ’ acquired far greater force . |
| 14 | France decided not to rely upon either the Americans or the perfidious British — a reaction which was strengthened by the return to power of Charles de Gaulle ( May 1958 ) . |
| 15 | According to Hun Sen , the government , while accepting most of the plan , wanted it to include " concrete measures " to prevent the return to power of the " genocidal " Pol Pot regime ( the Khmer Rouge regime of 1976-79 ) . |
| 16 | He welcomed the return to power of Soviet President Gorbachev . |
| 17 | A general election held in June 1987 resulted in the return to power of a coalition government led by Paias Wingti , but this was defeated in a parliamentary vote of no confidence on July 4 , 1988 , and replaced by a coalition led by Namaliu . |
| 18 | The SOC Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An said that the US move would contribute to preventing the return to power of the Khmers Rouges and would raise living standards . |
| 19 | In September 1991 , after the banning of the republican Communist Party , Ikramov had ordered the removal of Lenin 's statue in Dushanbe — a controversial order which appeared to precipitate the return to power of the majority communist faction in the Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38418 ] . |
| 20 | The latest development prompted widespread speculation that the army intended to supervise fresh elections which could favour the return to power of Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We are talking about the return to power of the Communist nomenklatura ( party elite ) , ’ Mr Kostikov said later in an interview with Russian and Reuter television , ‘ … that very nomenklatura which fell with such a thunderous crash in August 1991 . ’ |
| 22 | He was a rejected favourite who did not relish the advance to power of his rival . |
| 23 | In the enthusiasm of the renewed emphasis on the Spirit these days he is some times presented as the pathway to power in the Christian life , the secret of success in personal living and in service . |
| 24 | What generalized the appeal of Paisley 's critique of the unionist élites was the accession to power of Terence O'Neill . |
| 25 | And this process was not immediately halted by the accession to power of the Bolsheviks . |
| 26 | The accession to power of nationalist movements and parties — the taking of political power by indigenous Africans previously denied a voice in running their own countries — brought about a dramatic transformation in Africa 's media . |
| 27 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 28 | The power of the republicans suffered a serious setback in 1747 , at a moment of crisis when French invasion seemed imminent , by the victory of the Orangists and the accession to power of William IV , the posthumous son of John-William Friso . |
| 29 | For Marxist thinkers this has usually meant the accession to power of a new class , involving the transformation of the whole social system , as in the transition from feudalism to capitalism , or from capitalism to socialism . |
| 30 | The first is the historical one of advancing the understanding of South Africa 's political and military relationship with European colonial powers in the critical period following the accession to power of the National party . |