Sentence examples for to secure power from inspiring English sources

Isis are currently fighting with the Taliban to secure power there.

They concluded it was willing to say anything to secure power.

Nor would serious popular protest be tolerated any longer, now that the Jacobins had used such intervention to secure power.

Many on the religious right accuse Mr Morsi of using religion simply to secure power, not to make Egypt more Islamic.

While Sinhalese leaders wanted to do away with communal representation and make territorial representation universal, minorities aimed to retain it to secure power for their own communities.

The Bonapartists, in any case, were poorly organized; and the memories of Napoleon's failures were too recent for them to secure power.

"The local government measure provides us with a timely opportunity to secure powers which, it has become obvious, are necessary".

That is why investment in energy has dwarfed that in other sectors since 2005, with almost $400bn committed to securing power for China's population, which currently stands at almost 1.4 billion.

It has taken an effort by more than 40 people to come up with a solution that will enable companies with dense power requirements to secure premium power with unparalleled reliability".

Although the opening years of Tiberius's reign seem almost a model of wise and temperate rule, they were not without displays of force and violence, of a kind calculated to secure his power.

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.