Just as cable companies accrue power as they get bigger, so do programmers.
The moral might be that we should automatically distrust anyone who seeks to accrue power to themselves but that, after all, is not very new news.
Though his supporters understood that his authority was provisional, most expected him to accrue power over time, gradually paving the way for a transition to a system not oriented around Mr. Putin.
"Part of the way politicians accrue power for themselves and decrease accountability is through gerrymandering," he said in tones that had George Will's clipped delivery and Ralph Nader's populist outrage.
There is a long history of such disputes in presidential cabinets, a history that demonstrates that strong officials accrue power largely because of their relationship up the chain of command, to the president.
When she's running for something, she's not representing constituents or the country; she's opposing a Republican and trying to accrue power for Democrats, which inevitably makes Republicans turn against her.
Those of us trying to preserve our integrity as journalists fight a constant rearguard action – against proprietors who set little store by integrity, and against a government that tries to accrue power by restricting freedom of expression and ringfencing public debate.
By focussing on upstart vigilantes as they accrue power, the film reveals a reality more troubling than has been depicted by other drug-war stories — an increasingly fractured system, with new organizations cropping up to compete violently in Mexico's criminal economy.
As a new effort at comprehensive immigration reform inches its way forward in the Senate, dissent from many conservatives is revealing their true contempt for, and fear of, the possibility that demographic groups who look different from their base will accrue power.
Doctrine one: "The intermediary structures of a civilised life have been eliminated, and with them the Burkean ideal of a civic, religious, political or social middle, as the state and the market accrue power at the expense of ordinary people... Thatcherite neoliberalism was determined to terminate all these state monopolies.
