Sentence examples for passing on power from inspiring English sources

In Egypt, the first successful Arab nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, ruled for 18 years and then kept leadership in the military by passing on power to Anwar el-Sadat and then, after his death in 1981, to Hosni Mubarak, both military officers.

It has nothing to do with passing on power to women".

With no obvious rivals to Ben Ali, there was speculation that he was looking to pass on power to one of his relatives.

To his successors, he passed on power.

He will no doubt pass on power to a successor who has yet to be named.

The liberator for Firestone was the right to be loved for oneself, not as part of a patronage system "to pass on power and privilege".

Eritreans hadn't fought and died to win independence from Ethiopia simply to install a president who wanted to pass on power to his family, it said.

Does his desire to pass on power to his young son Kim Jong-un, a process that likely strengthens the military even further, make the prospect of an accord less likely?

He thought that the blood supplied generative material for building all parts of the adult body, and he reasoned that blood was the basis for passing on this generative power to the next generation.

The Nets did not have trouble passing on the 6-9 offensive power Rodney White, a freshman out of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Mr. Wood said the other half of the problem was the law's retail rate cap, which blocked utilities from passing on the cost of power to customers, incorrectly assuming wholesale prices would fall.