Sentence examples for they seize power from inspiring English sources

It shows how proto-dictators must be voted out before, like President Snow in The Hunger Games, they seize power and rescind our liberties.

But others, he said, chiefly Islamists from the Islah Party, want to keep pushing until they seize power, signaling a split not just between protesters and the formal political parties but also within the coalition itself.

If they seize power, if these so-called European socialists take over the House and the Senate, and, God forbid, they get the White House again, our American freedoms could be lost and our country will be changed forever".

And this is a lot like our dilemma in Syria where a regime we don't like — and which probably killed the prime minister of Lebanon whom it disliked — could be toppled by people who say what we like, but we're not sure they all really believe what we like because among them could be Sunni fundamentalists, who, if they seize power, could suppress all those minorities in Syria whom they don't like.

Usually authoritarians appoint a Minister of Propaganda after they seize power.

They seize power, deal with whatever the crucial problem is that caused the coup, and then they move out.

In 1975 they seized power.

It seems harsh to imply that most communists were psychological misfits long before they seized power.

"But the generals are rebels, they seized power unlawfully," one responds.

There have been frequent clashes between Israel and Hamas militants since they seized power in June.

Using that argument, they seized power three times between 1961 and 1980 before handing it back to the chastened politicians.