Sentence examples for claiming power from inspiring English sources

Since claiming power in June, Mr. Samaras has labored to restore Greece's credibility with its European partners, particularly with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who has insisted that Greece remain a part of the euro zone.

That is not necessarily a bad thing, but after claiming power and money and privilege, boundaries get blurred.

She describes her popping palette like light treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder as "claiming power and joy in the moments of sadness, confusion or confinement".

Probably because the use of the word in some instances by women is not about demeaning someone else, but about claiming power.

Through appropriation, contemporary artists have either affirmed culture's euro-centric power dynamics, or used the canon as inspiration to create new representations that are less white, straight, male, and affluent, claiming power on the canvas for the non-European figure. .

And while I may not agree with their tactics or the repercussions of those actions, it seems clear that the choice of their name was not about dehumanizing women, but about claiming power by reclaiming the word.

Team principal Christian Horner initially let rip after the opening race of the season in Australia earlier this month, claiming power-unit supplier Renault had delivered an "undriveable" system that was 100bhp shy of dominant Mercedes.

Stressed and sometimes ill-trained mercenaries operate in Iraq's mayhem with apparent impunity, erecting checkpoints without authorisation, and claiming powers to detain and confiscate identity cards.

Parliament is now claiming powers that, thanks to a historic quirk, have given Downing Street the powers of a monarch.

The provisional government collapsed and the Bolsheviks claimed power.

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