Sentence examples for power dismantling from inspiring English sources

Far from the front, in mood and reality, Bayda, an eastern city that was one of the first to embrace the anti-Qaddafi revolution, has now also embraced the work of what might follow: building a state on a landscape riven by divisions of tribe, piety and class in a country whose leader spent four decades in power dismantling anything that might contest his rule.

Xi, in his first five years in power, dismantled what are known in China as the qian guize (the "unwritten rules"), which allowed people to bribe their way to higher office or to skirt the edges of censorship.

But the king sold out near the top in 1720; within two years, the Compagnie was bankrupt and its political power dismantled.

The president has the power to choose who will stand before the military commissions, and he has the power to dismantle them for good.

It ejected Mubarak and his coterie from power and dismantled his political apparatus.

"Those who seek peace must do everything in their power to dismantle the infrastructure of terror that makes such actions possible," he said.

He pointed out that they are still being reviewed by state officials and that he would have no power to dismantle them without the approval of the council.

Mao, realizing that knowledge is power, systematically dismantled the educational system, shipping teenagers off to the countryside to be "re-educated" as farmers.

To remove this obstacle, Mr. Gingrich did everything in his power to dismantle Congressional institutions that employed people with the knowledge, training and experience to know a harebrained idea when they saw it.

Details of a new bill that will give America's government the power to dismantle stricken banks is intended to belie the notion that some financial firms are "too big to fail".

"If they get power and dismantle the public schools -- or, over a period of time, decide that we won't educate all our kids -- then we will be a different country," she said.