Sentence examples for inherited power from inspiring English sources
They are watched — and blocked — by an immensely powerful coterie of generals and judges who inherited power from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the former general who created modern Turkey in 1923 from Ottoman remains.
Assad inherited power from his father in 2000.
He speaks with the entitlement of inherited power.
Mr. Assad inherited power from his father, Hafez, in 2000.
Mr. Kim inherited power after his father died in 1994 at the age of 82.
The birthday boy inherited power after the death of his father, Kim Jong-in, in 2011.
Duvalier inherited power, aged 19, from his father, Francois "Papa Doc Duvalierr, an even bloodier dictator.
The pattern of inherited power went on well into the twentieth century.
Yet Kuwait's case highlights some of the problems inherent in any system of inherited power.
The North's economy is weaker than when Kim Jong-il inherited power.
It inherited power from the unelected government of Anwar Sadat in 1981, which in turn inherited power from the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970, which came to power in a military coup in 1952.
