Sentence examples for got to power from inspiring English sources
He had been in opposition so long, he didn't know what to do when he got to power".
The alternative is a Labour party whose leader stopped talking straight the moment he got to power.
In Venezuela, they were created to a great extent by the state after Chávez got to power.
"Yet, once we got to power, we forgot what we fought for and began to enrich ourselves at the expense of our people".
These were Margaret Thatcher's words in 1978 when she was asked by an interviewer how she would cut the immigration numbers if she got to power.
Out of these, Mr Dikotter constructs a devastating case for how extreme violence, not a moral mandate, was at the heart of how the party got to power, and of how it then governed.Towards the end of the civil war, word of how the Communist armies waged war went before them.
"Allawi helped Saddam get to power," an American intelligence officer told me.
"Maybe, unlike others, I took 50 years to get to power," he said.
Maintaining the family consensus will get harder the closer the younger generation get to power, experts argue.
In Angola it was a vicious dictatorship bent on getting to power with whatever allies it could find.
