hold power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofholdandpower
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hold
noun
uk/həʊld/us/hoʊld/
the act of holding something or someone, or the way you ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofholdandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Others who participate andholdpowerwithin them must undertake change.
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From this viewpoint, group identities and status have not moved on, those whoholdpowerhave neatly managed their representations.
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Many officials whoholdpowerin the allocation of resources are ready to sell their power to criminal gangs in exchange for material benefits.
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They are responsible, because it is they whoholdpower.
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My party will notholdpowerfor ever.
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Where weholdpower, that lobbying turns into action.
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Not to get money, but toholdpower.
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The government construed this dispute as a challenge to their legitimacy, and an attempt to seize power by people who were not mandated toholdpower.
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Judicial authority requires that court rulings are accepted and complied with by the affected parties and by those whoholdpowerin the larger political structure.
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They bothholdpowerin their respective areas and with regard to their respective peoples.
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Some methods which they have used to gain orholdpowerhave been spectacularly nasty.
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Those whoholdpowermust be accountable to those who put them into such positions of power.
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It was never toholdpoweragain.
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His father felt him to be unsuitable toholdpower.
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As we all know, the most powerful means of controlling anyone engaged in any kind of public service is toholdpowerover the purse.
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Dissent is at the core of democracy: it is about the right to do and say things differently from those whoholdpower.
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Those whoholdpowershould be subject to rigorous scrutiny by those who are elected and who are, in turn, accountable to their constituents.
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It is often the case that power, or the desire toholdpower, is a far stronger motive than the one to hold wealth.
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Such questions must of course be directed far more to those whoholdpower, than to those who are in opposition.
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The demonstrations by the citizens of these countries against the ossified regimes whichholdpowerhave, however, brought hope for permanent political change.
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One man may have toholdpowerto impose sentence of life or death, probably in a time of very great emotion.
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It also seems doubtful whether it can be a very good system which allows such men to come to power and toholdpowerfor so long.
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Those whoholdpowershould not be defensive and seek to restrict information but should go out and involve people in the decisions that affect their lives.
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It is in an anti-democratic tradition in which the bollot bax becomes the tool of authoritarianism rather than the master of those who temporarilyholdpower.
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