Sentence examples for parallel power from inspiring English sources
In the districts around the city, a particularly violent group of young Taliban commanders terrorise locals and exert parallel power.
It may then appear in a dangerous form .A parallel power structure has been built from Kiev's Maidan movement.
This paper deals with three-phase power lines operated by parallel power cables.
The law of the land does not apply here - instead it is the "parallel power" of armed gangsters who are lucky to make it to 25 years old.
They describe a parallel power structure in the state, charging for protection, setting up illegal highway checkpoints and even providing emergency relief in poor barrios after hurricanes hit.
A leading human-rights official told the St. Petersburg Times that Sandra de Colom was considered "malignant and malevolent," and "the head of a parallel power".
Mendizábal was the one person Rosenberg knew who could help him take on the parallel powers that dominated Guatemala.
At a press conference announcing his decision, Castresana, in a final salvo, denounced Colom's new Attorney General for alleged ties to "parallel powers," including organized crime.
No one knows to what extent the security apparatus of President Alfonso Portillo's government is a prisoner of these "parallel powers" (or "clandestine groups"), or in collusion with them.
In Guatemala, these "parallel powers" -- unofficial, immune from prosecution and scrutiny -- have created a spectacular architecture in which General Ríos Montt is not the only power behind the throne; indeed, there are a series of thrones, with figures ever more sinister behind each one, and their collective hold on power has become only stronger since the 1996 peace accords.
These include corruption and the rise, on Mr Portillo's watch, of what some Guatemalans call the "parallel powers"—a murky congregation of drug traffickers, other criminal racketeers, serving and retired military and police officers and some government officials.Mr Berger has promised to govern honestly.
