The phrase "accumulates power" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the gathering or increasing of influence, authority, or energy over time.
Example: "The organization gradually accumulates power as it gains more supporters and resources."
Alternatives: "gathers strength" or "builds influence."
In doing so, it stealthily but inexorably accumulates power, privilege and prerogatives.
The novella also accumulates power because Johnson is as skilled as ever at balancing menace against ecstasy, civilization against wilderness.
As it progresses, "Want Not" so assuredly accumulates power and profundity and momentum that I read the last 200 pages without pause.
As Five Star accumulates power, Parma is now being scrutinized as a test of what the movement would do if given still more authority.
As the party accumulates power, Parma is now being scrutinized as a test of what it would do if given still more authority.
Just as no one builds a multi-billion dollar empire without some sort of savage determination and intense will to power (otherwise they would have stopped at some earlier point, taken their winnings and gone home), no one accumulates power and then declines to use it in the face of existential threats—of which Thiel counted Gawkeras one to his business interests.
The waning days of Benedict's troubled papacy were marked by complaints from ordinary Catholics as well as from powerful cardinals that the Curia had become too concerned with accumulating power and unresponsive to the needs of its followers.
When one becomes sufficiently powerful, continued success relies more on the skillful allocation of accumulated power than on persuasion.
The professions, including those in science, were accumulating power.
"My belief is that effective leadership does not mean accumulating power.
Even after 10 years, Merkel still seems to accumulate power, not lose it.
