Sentence examples for power exploiting from inspiring English sources

Since he took office eight years ago, Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, has grabbed more and more power, exploiting his nation's oil wealth to buy up popular support.

Far more than Coulson, she played the game of power, exploiting her extraordinary social skills to build an unrivalled network of connections.

The unprepossessing picture of the world's only great power exploiting a private tragedy to score points against a diminutive totalitarian island is a reminder of the humiliating international price we pay for the paranoid streak in our political culture; once again, the world has had a field day at America's expense.

His main criticism of "the science of well-being" is that it encourages us to blame ourselves while ignoring political and economic contexts and while those in power exploit the science for "private profit" or "social control".

For E0 = 1 keV the power exploited by a load was estimated as tenths of nW and the total conversion efficiency was between 0.2 and 0.4%.

An attentive student may realize, with the help of these handy themes, that historically xenophobia is an idea that people in power exploit to get immigrants to work for way less money than they deserve.

Addressing the nation after the Beslan massacre, President Vladimir Putin conjured up a spectre of manipulative foreign powers exploiting terrorism to weaken Russia.

Meanwhile, new uncertainties revolved around how lesser powers might exploit that terrifying destructive capability.

For their part, western powers exploited "outrages" against missionaries to grab territorial concessions, thus fuelling the Boxers' anti-foreign appeal.

The bay was once a maritime highway between India and China, and then was shaped by monsoons and migration as European powers exploited the region for its coffee, tea and rubber.

Warlords, local landlords, and foreign powers exploited the grasslands and the local herdsmen, devastating the socioeconomic development of the region (Da and Zheng 2010).