In such cases, rape is above all an attempt at staking power through sexual acts.
"Nick's book has all the elements of a great drama with its complex characters, high-stakes power struggles and betrayed friendships," says Kevin Beggs, Chairman of the Lionsgate Television Group.
Can you imagine Australia's second-in-command, Barnaby Joyce, in a high stakes power struggle with Russia's president or the Chinese premier?
It promised another exciting round of high-stakes power-play and mortal combat, but now that we've come to expect the unexpected, can this show still shock like it used to?
Rather, he's interested in conflict, in daring, in risk, in the high-stakes, power-driven showdowns that, for all the careful preparation and research underlying them, are essentially stages of performance, of acting for one's life — an existential self-realization in the mortal pressure of the moment and the camera's relentless eye.
The long-term answer to rocket attacks is to allow Hamas a legitimate stake in power.
There are too many oversize egos, too much greed, too big a stake in power politics.
According to the government's system of ethnic federalism, the Oromos are meant to have a large stake in power.
Today the party has a stake in power in Beirut which it is less willing to jeopardise.
Masculinity contests are most prevalent — and vicious — in male-dominated occupations where extreme and precarious resources are at stake (fame, power, wealth, safety).
