Example sentences of "[vb past] from power " in BNC.
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| 1 | The struggle is probably better understood as one between a dominant oligarchy and those whom they excluded from power . |
| 2 | He fell from power in 1987 , resigning from the Politburo over the slow pace of reform . |
| 3 | Then came the change of government in 1955 Peron fell from power and a provisional military government took office . |
| 4 | The Keith brothers and the other leaders of the rebellion managed , as was traditional after such affairs , to escape to the Continent while Cardinal Alberoni , the driving force behind the whole affair , fell from power that December and became , like James himself , an exile in Italy . |
| 5 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 6 | For as the Girondins fell from power and the Reign of Terror began Wordsworth felt that the ideals of the Revolution had been betrayed ( Prelude 1805 , x , 308–61 ) . |
| 7 | Before the reactor had a chance to work ( or more accurately , fail ) Peron fell from power . |
| 8 | However , when Cromwell fell from power in 1540 , a conservative backlash ensued ; several purges of heretics followed and little further progress towards religious reform was made until after Henry 's death . |
| 9 | Within weeks of our arrival , Margaret Thatcher fell from power . |
| 10 | In Nicaragua the Sandinistas fell from power , while next door General Noriega was toppled by a US invasion . |
| 11 | In 1801 and 1807 ministries fell from power because of the obstinate resistance of George III to the grant of equal political rights to Catholics . |
| 12 | In time I became Wolsey 's friend , the only man to stand by him when he fell from power and lay in bed gasping out his life and cursing the king who had turned against him . |
| 13 | You see , when Wolsey fell from power and died in Leicester Abbey , crushing my hand and whispering , ‘ If I had served my God as well as I served my king , he would not leave me to die like this , ’ Agrippa transferred his allegiance to Henry and brought those two witches over to build a special clock . |
| 14 | Thus placemen tended to take their cue from party chieftains rather than from the sovereign or Court , and when a party fell from power there usually followed a purge of its placemen . |