Example sentences of "returned to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the prospect of a dialogue between London and Dublin remained , and the prospect strengthened when Fine Gael returned to power . |
| 2 | Nagy had already been prime minister from 1953 to 1955 but had fallen from favour and Rákosi returned to power . |
| 3 | He never again held office , and when Palmerston returned to power he was elevated to the peerage as Lord Llanover , from his estate near Abergavenny . |
| 4 | It seems that Manners was anxious to press ahead with building as quickly as possible in an attempt to pre-empt the Opposition from changing the scheme if they returned to power . |
| 5 | But the issue remained unresolved within the Labour Party and was to surface again when it returned to power in the 1960s . |
| 6 | For national politicians , television was becoming the important medium — even before de Gaulle returned to power ( 1958 ) . |
| 7 | In May-June 1958 TV covered ( some of ( the dramatic circumstances , born of the regime 's inability to resolve the Algerian conflict , in which de Gaulle returned to power : Parliament voted full powers to de Gaulle , the ( last ) premier of the Fourth Republic ; in September , the French approved by referendum the constitution of the Fifth Republic ; in December de Gaulle was elected ( indirectly : not by universal suffrage ) President . |
| 8 | This was renewed following the Liberation , under de Gaulle ( June 1944-January 1946 ) and again when de Gaulle returned to power in 1958 . |
| 9 | Certainly Gladstone 's view of society was less useful in 1880 when he returned to power for a second time , then , as Chamberlain reminded him , social legislation had become a parliamentary issue . |
| 10 | After the administration of Edward Heath ( 1970–4 ) , Labour replaced the Conservatives again , winning two elections in 1974 , and Wilson returned to power for two years until he was succeeded on his retirement by James Callaghan . |
| 11 | When the Conservatives returned to power in 1979 they further revised the PES system . |
| 12 | When the Liberals returned to power in 1892 , it was generally assumed that Ellis would receive government office . |
| 13 | When the Whigs returned to power she lost interest and in 1832 dropped the Journal abruptly in mid-sentence . |
| 14 | When the Liberals returned to power he held office , first as comptroller to the household ( 1905–9 ) , then as under-secretary of state for India ( 1909–10 ) , and finally as parliamentary ( patronage ) secretary to the Treasury and Liberal chief whip ( 1910–12 ) . |
| 15 | Colin Gregory was particularly pleased that PFR returned to power shortly before he left Reactor Services to become Divisional Manager , Dounreay Operations , AEA Fuel Services . |
| 16 | When the PS returned to power in mid-1988 she became European Affairs Minister-Delegate but resigned in October 1990 [ see p. 37784 ] , declaring France to be " in danger of being undermined by a lack of industrial motivation " . |
| 17 | The burdens of reconstruction made the late 1940s and 1950s particularly inappropriate for a policy of grandeur , whereas by 1958 , when de Gaulle returned to power , France was in a much better position to afford Gaullist ambition . |
| 18 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 19 | He returned to power in 1958 haunted by the thought that he was ten years too late . |