Example sentences of "had more power " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) . |
| 2 | A new type of dual power arose , reproduced in every region where Yeltsin 's ‘ regents ’ ( local representatives of the president , later called ‘ governors ’ at regional level and ‘ prefects ’ at district level ) often had more power than the elected local government . |
| 3 | For the next year or two Cromwell and his army were involved in the conquest of Scotland , and by May 1653 the Republic had more power to make itself obeyed over the whole of the British Isles than any monarch had ever had . |
| 4 | Artists sought his favour more often than they sought his wife 's , which is hardly surprising since he had more power and patronage to dispense . |
| 5 | Suddenly , everyone was talking about Syria and Iran — which country had more power over the hostage-takers , which was leaning more to the West . |
| 6 | The old man had more power than the major expected . |