Sentence examples for claim power from inspiring English sources

"Effectively there is no government…we claim power," he said.Mr Karamanlis was already vulnerable.

So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.

Or does he merely claim power over them as an elementary male prerogative?

Everyone wants to claim power, because they know that nobody else is going to share power with them".

The exiled brother of Syria's late leader, Hafez al-Assad, tried to claim power, in competition with Mr. Assad's son.

It attacked Jang as "worse than a dog" and accused him of working in earnest to claim power after Kim Jong-il's death two years ago.

To lament was to claim powers that crucifixion was designed to destroy: dignity, courage, passion, love, and remembrance.

The provisional government collapsed and the Bolsheviks claimed power.

Within hours of Claudius' death, Nero claimed power in a speech to the Praetorian Guard.

More broadly, Mr. Ashcroft has claimed power to detain non-citizens even when immigration judges order them released.

Incorporating such groups as the Cauhans and the Gahadawalas as subcastes and clans, the Rajputs claimed power and perquisites, at least at the local level.