Example sentences of "[to-vb] to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 2 | Marx had expected the communists to come to power in the most developed industrial societies of the West , where there would already be considerable accumulated wealth , scientific knowledge , and industrial capital to provide well-being for all . |
| 3 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | More reassuring in terms of Soviet policy was Gorbachev 's dramatic decision to allow a non-Communist premier to come to power in Poland . |
| 5 | As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power . |
| 6 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |
| 7 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 8 | If Dulac 's version of the interview is to be believed , de Gaulle acknowledged the possibility that he might have to come to power after a military operation against Paris . |
| 9 | His present campaign of eloquent pleading for Corea is a manoeuvre by which he hopes to ride to power as a national hero . |
| 10 | There is an Everest to climb to power . |
| 11 | Any minority government which tries to play games with the constitution in order to cling to power , promoting instability and dodging the moral challenge of democracy , will have to contend with us . |
| 12 | It is a weapon in the armoury of everyone who aspires to power , and more importantly of everyone who seeks to cling to power . |
| 13 | Desperate to cling to power , it had agreed to accept help from the US . |
| 14 | To these offences were soon added the brutal measures which the Bolsheviks took to cling to power , the barbarous excesses of the ‘ Red Terror ’ during the Civil War ( 1918–20 ) , the suppression of all rival parties , the curtailment of liberties as basic as freedom of speech and conscience . |
| 15 | However , for the majority of the ‘ professionals ’ , despite their need to cling to power , their careful crafting of our dependence is disintegrating before their very eyes . |
| 16 | Fawehinmi , charged over a magazine article in which he accused Babangida of planning to cling to power , had already been sentenced on Jan. 5 to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court , but had been released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 17 | Using the word ‘ politics ’ in a broad sense to refer to power relations , Davis argues that : |
| 18 | Preparing to return to power : The Khmer Rouge , whose atrocities of the mid-Seventies have become notorious , is increasingly likely to form part of any new government in Cambodia . |
| 19 | Few would argue with the proposition that it should never be allowed to return to power . |
| 20 | Now Pol Pot is poised to return to power . |
| 21 | Now Pol Pot is poised to return to power . |
| 22 | Justin Lekhanya , the former Chair of the Military Council , was placed under house arrest on Aug. 1 following allegations that he was plotting to return to power ; he was prohibited from associating with anyone other than his family and his doctor . |
| 23 | In late March Hun Sen , the Prime Minister of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) or Phnom Penh government , visited the USA , when he warned US officials that a delay in funding might help the Khmers Rouges to return to power through the use of military force . |
| 24 | Deng Xiaoping , the moderniser , had survived several purges and was now able to rise to power and take centre stage . |