Sentence examples for denied power from inspiring English sources

By any measure, PiS won the argument, and the campaign, and it will be odd if it is denied power.

The National League for Democracy won an election landslide in 1990 only to be denied power by the military.

Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy was denied power after it won elections in 1990, and she was placed under house arrest for years by the military government.

The apparently subversive subtext running beneath this -- and beneath so much of the new women's culture -- suggests that women, tired of being denied power in a man's world, have decided to take their toys and play elsewhere.

BEHIND THE NEWSDaw Aung San Suu Kyi has been a rallying symbol since her party won a huge victory in 1990 but was denied power by the military junta.

About 500,000 utility customers at a time in checkerboard patterns were denied power by Pacific Gas and Electric for about an hour, then had service restored as another block was blacked out.

Talk circulates of embittered ministers denied powers of patronage and told largely to abjure Delhi parties, foreign trips and chats to the media.

Elsewhere, Mr Brown also argued the Scottish government's rail ambitions were being hampered by UK legislation, under which Scotland has been denied powers to change regulation or improve accountability.

A succession of presidents from the Christian south have worked assiduously and often unscrupulously in the intervening years to deny power to Alassane D. Ouattara, a popular leader from the more heavily populated and predominantly Muslim northern region.

Political trusts deny power to the many by concentrating power in the hands of the few.

Zionism should empower citizens; it should deny power to all those who claim it on religious grounds; it should not empower zealots.