Sentence examples for grabbed power from inspiring English sources

When he grabbed power, Pakistan's reputation was bad even by its standards.

It would at least be better than if General Musharraf grabbed power, as he might.

To my mind, we didn't get into this crisis because inbred oligarchs grabbed power.

Marco Enríquez-Ominami, currently fourth in the polls, was born months before Pinochet grabbed power.

Oppressed under Saddam Hussein, the majority Shias grabbed power in the first free elections and held on despite endless crises.

But Starkey's kings and queens of England are no different from their defunct European counterparts - chancers who grabbed power.

Mr Clark expects most to demand more powers, over transport, housing and so on just as London's mayors have grabbed powers over policing and planning.

In grabbing power, the coup leader, Capt.

"They want to grab power," she said.

We did not attempt to grab power by bloodshed".

"We don't want one family grabbing power," he said.