Sentence examples for power claiming from inspiring English sources

Abbott came to power claiming that economic management was in his DNA.

Your party came to power claiming that Mary Bloggs would be left free to teach.

And in places where people have grabbed power claiming to represent the poor (Venezuela, Bolivia), the first result has often been swingeing taxes on land or raw materials.

In the 1960s, Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party made the gun a central symbol of black power, claiming that "the gun is the only thing that will free us".

Ahmadinejad, who came to power claiming to be able to do more for Iran's poorest people, was exposed as a failure, whereas Rouhani pointed out that in the several years when he was chief nuclear negotiator the issue was not taken to the security council.

He disputes the notion that the Greek economy had been on the mend prior to Syriza taking power, claiming that as both incomes and prices were falling, the idea that there was real growth was a "statistical mirage" made meaningless by the ever-deepening national debt.

But people in power claimed ignorance.

Scottish Power claimed she owed them £345.21 for past usage.

Whoever you vote for, the same people win, because where power claims to be is not where power is.

Thomas Jefferson warned that accepting constitutional judicial review — a power claimed by the judiciary but nowhere conferred upon it in the constitutional text — would place the nation "under the despotism of an oligarchy".

Israel is condemned for using "state power" to protect its citizens while Hamas, equally a "state power," claims the right to endanger its own citizens by unprovoked and unproductive acts intended to maximize carnage.