She is a familiar character from the teen drama: popular, a cheerleader, the center of cliques (power as status).
Control is one of the main sources of a cliques power, some cliques are often created for that specific purpose alone.
In 2007, the conservative Kayhan newspaper, a publication closely aligned with Khamenei's clique of power, his counsellor Hussein Shariatmadari, and the Iranian MP Darius Qanbari reiterated this claim.
As the K.G.B.-military-oligarch clique consolidates power behind Putin, it faces a new U.S. president with firm ideas about a national missile defense.
Alabama was made up of "island communities," each dominated by a small clique of power brokers, known as a "courthouse ring".
By contrast, in autocracies in which a single ruler or small clique holds power, gender reforms risk destabilizing the regime because leaders of the women's movement tend to be regime 'outsiders' who seek to alter the political status quo.
That's hardly a surprise, as each day around tea time, when England's usage peaks, a small clique of power plant owners take over the electricity auction, bidding up prices by 200 to 2,000 percent.
It is a scandal that has splintered some longstanding relationships, made social gatherings occasionally awkward and made the clique of power brokers in the area even more of an object of fascination for the British public.
When political unrest flared up in Nepal after 1832, an anti-British clique seized power and sought assistance from China to form an anti-British common front with the Qing, then fighting the first Opium War.
In both nations, deeply unpopular incumbent governments seek to perpetuate right-of-center political cliques in power, despite serious questions surrounding their honesty and their dedication to democratic ideals.
