Sentence examples for entrench power from inspiring English sources
Which brings us to the third rule in the dictator's playbook: use the trumped-up crisis to enlarge and entrench power.
Trudeau is the ultimate soft boy; he helps entrench power for the wealthy few while his PR team make sure you're gawping at a picture of him looking fit in a canoe.
To me, that is the power of isolation at work: to silence us, and to entrench power structures that put a crown on Harvey Weinstein's head and a target on the back of any woman any person who tries to stand up for themselves.
The Co-operative Group risks entrenching power in the hands of its management if it adopts a proposal to change how it selects its directors, the embattled mutual's former group secretary has warned.
The ex-chairman's intervention follows remarks last week by Nick Eyre, a former company secretary of the Co-op, who also warned about the impact of entrenching power in the hands of management.
Since it "appears unlikely that those who hold power will yield gracefully to groups pushing for a share of it," altering the balance of power through SPIs runs the risk of actually entrenching power asymmetries if the groups in power push back (O'Faircheallaigh, 2010: 23).
The traditional three-sphere vision of society is a recipe for entrenching power, information and status inequalities in the economic sphere, entrenching economic and informational inequalities in the political sphere, and entrenching all sorts of unfair treatments in the social sphere, that spill over economic and political hardship.
The military is trying to entrench its power while weakening the revolutionary forces that ousted Mubarak.
Will it use the levers at its disposal to entrench the power of its own supporters, thereby fostering polarisation?
National collective-bargaining agreements, which apply to all employees in an industry, whether unionised or not, entrench union power.
They start undermining norms that ensure accountability, try to change the rules to entrench their power further.
