Sentence examples for holder of power from inspiring English sources
This was the beginning of a "continuous ministry" during which Vogel, whatever office he held, was the real holder of power in the government of New Zealand.
Although the official president was Choi Kyu Hah, Chun emerged as the real holder of power, and in April 1980 he became head of the KCIA.
Now there is also a process of bargaining between parties a good sign for institution building," he says.But the essential fact in both the election and the government that followed is that nothing was allowed that challenged the army, the real holder of power in Algeria.
Mr. O'Hare also excavates plenty of laughs from his phrasing of Elling's ornate, fussy language and his outbursts of peevish anger at Frank, who is both the irksome holder of power over Elling and Kjell Bjarne's future and a symbol of the carefree normalcy that Elling finds it impossible to emulate.
The Russian Prosperity Fund is the second-largest holder of Power Machines, with a 6% stake; Branis is a board member.
North Korea analyst Aidan Foster-Carter says those tours show he has some influence and is clearly listened to by the regime, but he is more a survivor than a key holder of power.
If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power.... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
It is a powerful social tool, because it provides citizens with an independent source of information about the state and other holders of power.
After the First World War, she drew up the boundaries of the modern state of Iraq, in which Sunni Arabs became the holders of power and Kurds saw their dream of nationhood dissolved.
"The revolt against holders of power is not a revolt of the poor against the rich: ordinary people are far less prone to resent other people's success, than intellectuals suppose.
