accumulation of power

collocation in English

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accumulation
noun[U or C]
uk
/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
an amount of something that has ...
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power
noun
uk
/paʊər/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofaccumulationandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When it was used for the common good, the people prospered and witchcraft (the private accumulationofpowerwhich threatened societal order) was suppressed.
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Most of the time, they are the outcome of quasi-rational institutional engineering by an elite pursuing the control of the state foraccumulationofpowerand wealth.
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Secondly, there is theaccumulationofpowerat the centre.
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I refer to the process by which there is a constantaccumulationofpower.
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I have spent a lot of my time in the last fifty years trying to study the problem of theaccumulationofpower.
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Funding must have limits, and a basic principle of democracy is that there should not be anyaccumulationofpower.
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However, with the advent of agriculture people's lifestyle changed completely, leading to the advent of private property and theaccumulationofpower.
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Finding this balance between transgressing autonomy and dangerousaccumulationofpowercould prove difficult, and associationalism appeared to be a possible solution.
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Western anthropologists have considered "naparay" as part of a cultural practice that limits theaccumulationofpoweramong a small group within a community.
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In the world today accumulations of power, whether commercial power or the power of officialdom, are increasing.
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