Sentence examples for without taking power from inspiring English sources

It is possible, of course, as the social movements have taught us, to change the world without taking power.

Many feel that their society has grown so much more conservative that the Islamists can claim to have succeeded even without taking power.

"We've got to be in the winning business," he would say, "because without winning" — without taking power — "it's the other guy, and the other guy's ideas, that prevail".

It is accused of political naiveté for it only talks about power without taking power.

They have only been betrayed, either crushed by an armed elite or destroyed by "bureaucratic counter-revolution," he said, adding, "We are trying to strike that balance of taking power without being taken by power".

The difference between then and now, she said, is that "constitutional pretexts lend the appearance of legitimacy to a government taking power without support from the ballot box".

Mr. Alexander placed special emphasis on the fact that our chief executives take power without killing anyone.

If the ruling is carried out, whoever wins the presidential race would take power without the check of a sitting Parliament and could exercise significant influence over the elections to form a new one.

Most worrying of all, Miss Megawati is likely to take a harder line towards separatists in Aceh and Irian Jaya, making any lasting solution even harder to achieve.Still, only a month ago it seemed as though Miss Megawati's greatest difficulty would be to take power without widespread violence.

The symbolism of Mr. Obama's visit was impossible to miss: America's first black president, whose wife is a descendant of African slaves, said this week that he might not have been elected were it not for Mr. Mandela's ability to endure imprisonment and emerge to take power without bitterness or recrimination.

The ruling — which critics said amounted to a backdoor coup — means that whoever emerges as the winner of the runoff will take power without the check of a sitting Parliament and could even exercise some influence over the election of a future Parliament.