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THE Azerbaijani opposition's inability to wrest power from the all-powerful regime of Ilham Aliev (pictured) seems to have driven it into drug dependency.

Simply winning enough votes to wrest power from Myanmar's powerful military was seen by many as the greatest triumph of the woman known to everyone as "The Lady", generating excitement at home and an international wave of goodwill.

The reform also fulfils his broader aim to wrest power from the central government in Tokyo.

This would wrest power from the Congress and what he sees as a corrupt "partyocracy".

It was an attempt to wrest power away from something known as the legislative caucus, which was itself an attempt to wrest power away from the Electoral College.

It was an attempt to wrest power away from the nominating Convention.

An onrushing generation will wrest power from the danger in Tehran.

The suggestions would require wholesale bureaucratic reorganization that would wrest power from individuals and institutions.

Some would require wholesale bureaucratic reorganization that would wrest power from individuals and institutions.

The real question is: will these struggles spoil its chances to wrest power back from Congress in 2014?

Rather they hoped to wrest power back from what they deemed the tyrannical alliance of Montagnards and Parisian sansculottes.