Sentence examples for playing power games from inspiring English sources

The E.U. is a complex labyrinth of institutions playing power games, but the European Parliament is not to be overlooked".

If you think a client is playing power games with you, have a word with your line-manager.

When confronted with a visitor like Lucy, Dr. Stein cannot seem to resist playing power games with his patient while trying to cure her.

And Volkswagen, which is protected from foreign takeover by a special law limiting voting rights, is playing power games in the takeover battle between two truck giants, Scania of Sweden and MAN of Germany.

Syriana, apparently, is a term used by foreign affairs experts in Washington think-tanks to describe a possible realignment of the Middle East while playing power games and experimenting with new scenarios.

My first book, Gun Nation, was inspired by my frustration at witnessing western governments playing power games in developing countries and the arms industry profiting by it - in short, the legacy of colonialism.

Her stage vignettes played power games.

"All the others are interested in power — they play power games.

The Van Dykes loved the drama of sadomasochism, the way it gave them license to play power games — which, really, they had been engaged in all along.

I once had a boss like that: he would play power games, like asking me to sit down when I went into his office and then circling around me to make me feel small.

They liked the old ways of doing business because it was easier to play power games," says Tronchetti.