Sentence examples for secure their power from inspiring English sources
These post-colonial authoritarian regimes established total control over all institutions — military, security, political, economic, media, cultural and religious — all with one purpose: to secure their power and eliminate all opposition.
The princes, moreover, found it almost as hard as the kings to secure their power administratively.
MAYORS and state governors in Brazil have long been masters of ingenuity when it comes to raising cash to secure their power bases.
Fixing the banks will be costly, but failing to do so will slow the rapid economic growth that Chinese Communist leaders feel they must maintain to secure their power.
Republican legislators in the South have, in turn, moved aggressively on two fronts to secure their power: by designing legislative and Congressional districts minimizing Democratic prospects and by moving ahead with legislation designed to suppress voting under the guise of combating voter fraud.
As a result, the hardliners have been taking counterbalance measures, such as increasing the number of executions and level of crackdown, to secure their power.
They are busy securing their power.
When the army was finally withdrawn from Louisiana in 1877 as part of a bargain to settle the contested presidential election of 1876, the anti-black, anti-Republican Louisianans secured their power in state politics.
The sheiks knew their authority would be enhanced if they could deliver patronage from the U.S. and the Iraqi government — after all, that is how they secured their power from the era of British colonial rule right up through the reign of Saddam.
Had the radical Whigs secured their power in Britain, our Revolution might well have taken on a look and feel far more like those of the later Canadian and Australian dissolutions from the Brits: a political break toward "home rule" but without any of the elaborate paraphernalia of patriotism attached to it.
The new government quickly suppressed the opposition, and secured their power base.
