Sentence examples for was taking power from inspiring English sources

The head of the armed forces, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, announced tonight that the military was taking power.

Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, a close ally from the president's hometown, announced on state television that he was taking power as interim president.

But as the queen's female retinue — wearing white unitards and hoops without skirts — reappeared onstage, the dirge segued into the martial beat of "Run the World Girlss)." Beyoncé, shaking the epaulets on her shoulders and flipping her hair, was taking power not for herself but for her entire gender.

The first lady walked to the well of the Senate to be sworn in shortly after noon, escorted down the aisle by New York's senior senator, Charles E. Schumer, in a ceremony filled with reminders that a new Clinton was taking power in the nation's capital.

All of this came as a clean new narrative seemed to be taking hold: a younger generation of Alaskans, led by Ms. Palin, was taking power as the state moved to diversify its economy away from oil production and federal spending.

Perrin seized the baton and waved it over the crowd, which gave the appearance that he was taking power and initiating a coup d'état.

Now we've come full-circle; another sorry excuse for a leader is taking power.

Another politician is announcing, slowly, that he is taking power, and he interrupts himself, saying, "By God Almighty, protect yourselves".

The AKP is taking power in the first two-party parliament in 40 years a daunting prospect for a party so young.

In Logar Province, west of Jalalabad and south of Kabul, commanders loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, another former rebel commander, said they were taking power.

The country comes 50th in Transparency International's ranking of corruption worldwide, and the state has been taking power away from anti-corruption bodies.