Sentence examples for accretion of power from inspiring English sources

Pre-ordained constitutional rules would seek to limit the accretion of power.

Or it can be the result of the steady accretion of power, winning over institutions and shunting aside rivals.

"The story of pensions is, in fact, largely the story of the slow accretion of power by the labor unions," he concludes.

In the face of this vast accretion of power in the office of prime minister, parliament has been quiescent, even dormant.

The Netherlands nobility were delighted to see this enormous accretion of power to their ruler and looked forward to the advantages that they might reap from it.

There is a growing sense in the White House that with Mr. Putin's accretion of power, his ability to dictate his own successor or to remain the country's ruler in some capacity is unavoidable at this point.

And today, some of the most massive accretions of power are indisputably private.

Others see it as the accretion of the power of the Web.

The final accretion of Hōjō power came in 1221, when the emperor Go-Toba raised the Taira of western Japan against the Hōjō.

The Washington Post has reported that one of the major impacts of the FinReg bill passed last week by Congress is the accretion of new power to Obama's Treasury Secretary.

Her attempt to extend the time suspected terrorists may be held without charge was opposed with admirable ferocity by some historically minded MPs and campaigners; but polls suggest that most ordinary Britons were unfussed, as they have been by other accretions of state power.