Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] in power " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power . |
| 2 | Soon , though , she drops her fancy prose and concentrates on the relationship , almost sexual in its intensity , between Mr Castro and enough Cubans to keep him in power without the brutal repression that most Caribbean dictators go in for . |
| 3 | In February 1974 , Mr Heath lost his overall majority , but remained in office for several days while he tried to do a deal with Mr Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberals to keep him in power . |
| 4 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 5 | The man he relied on to keep him in power . ’ |
| 6 | The US continued to pour money into the South to keep it in power , again sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process . |