"reinforce power" is correct and usable in written English.
The phrase usually implies fortifying or strengthening one's ability or authority by taking specific measures. For example, "The Governor proposed legislation to reinforce power in the executive branch."
Aesthetic ideologies that would remove art from its relations with the world disguise its ability to inscribe and to reinforce power relations.
As he puts it, "how we think about power may serve to reproduce and reinforce power structures and relations, or alternatively it may challenge and subvert them.
The use of wealth to impress, terrify, and reinforce power is as old as power or wealth (i.e., OLD).
The use of wealth to impress, terrify and reinforce power is as old as power, as old as wealth (i.e. OLD).
Phrases like "I speak for those... .. creates an atmosphere that allows such a sentiment to manifest into something very dangerous, something where we end up doing more harm than good; something where we reinforce power balances and re-victimize "the victims".
'Othering' describes practices of marginalization based on apparent differences, often race or ethnicity, and is 'a process that identifies those that are thought to be different from oneself or the mainstream,' which 'can reinforce power and reproduce positions of domination and subordination' (Johnson et al. 2004, 253).
A White House official made clear that one purpose of the orders was to reinforce powers that the intelligence chief has under law, but has not always exercised.
Empowering employees only reinforces power — a temporary gift bestowed from on high — as the most important source of authority.
Finally, there is the expressive and reinforcing power of rules about punishment.
By exploring the territorialization process and the dynamics of spatial production, this paper argues that territorialization is a means of reifying and reinforcing power in a geographical space and represents a significant attempt to achieve urban redevelopment.
Are Westerners reinforcing power imbalances by perpetuating stereotypes of the developing world?
