Sentence examples for perpetuating power from inspiring English sources

The protests' success gripped a region whose residents have increasingly complained of governments that seem incapable of meeting their demands and are bereft of any ideology except perpetuating power.

While witch hunting might have emerged from mass panic within remote, disconnected and backward tribes historically, today, the malpractice is about perpetuating power.

In Padraic Arthur Smithies's translation, "Perpetuating Power" is shorter by about half than the original.

"Perpetuating Power," however, makes it clear that Castaneda is more than a master of the Mexican sound bite.

A writer of numerous books on Mexican politics, including "Perpetuating Power, How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen," which is being released this week in New York, Mr. Castaneda has intellectual admirers around the world.

Such a strategy to consolidate or even perpetuate power is not exclusive to populists, of course.

Bureaucratese is a maddeningly viral kind of Unspeak engineered to deflect blame, complicate simple ideas, obscure problems, and perpetuate power relations.

These include constitutional rewrites to perpetuate power (notably in the cases of Chávez and Alberto Fujimori of Peru) and large-scale fraud (Mexico, for decades, in every charade of an election under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI).

But it's hard to build a better world, and it's especially hard when you're enmeshed in a system whose primary design goal often seems to be to perpetuate power, wealth and privilege for those who already have it.

Likewise, our context is characterized by ineffective political systems and a deeply embedded hierarchical structure that perpetuates power imbalances throughout the health system (5).

As leaders of Pakistan's largest political parties, either could head the next government as prime minister, perpetuating their power struggles with Mr. Musharraf as president.