Sentence examples for strong power base from inspiring English sources

It has a strong power base in local government.

In his three terms as county executive since 1990, Mr. Schuber has developed wide name recognition and a strong power base.

Lloyd has a strong power base, not least from the unions Unite and Unison, which have both come out for him, and both campaigns were well under way before Burnham threw his hat in the ring.

He felt that black people historically were once masters of the universe, slavery was "a mere interruption", and now it was time for black people to organise like other ethnic groups and build a strong power base.

However, the PPP organisation remained intact with a strong power base in its heartland of the southern rural Sindh province along with more rural parts of the Punjab where the Bhutto family name lost little of its prestige.

Domestically, he has the security of a strong power base among Turkish religious conservatives — a majority of the electorate — who were marginalized by the military and the country's old secular elite.

Significantly, the new speaker, Mehdi Karroubi, is an old revolutionary with a strong power-base in the establishment.

Politicians are only going to make such changes if there is strong enough public pressure and this in turn requires the generation of an exciting new story and a strong new power base pushing it.

Lately this distinction has become a millstone, though Mr. Rajoub retains a strong geographic power base around Hebron, where he grew up.

Without a strong traditional power base, Mr. Wahid draws much of his support from the fact that for now he seems to be the only hope Indonesians have for real reforms.

By the early to mid-1970s Brezhadv had established a strong enough power base to effectively become leader.