Example sentences of "come to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 2 | Marx had expected the communists to come to power in the most developed industrial societies of the West , where there would already be considerable accumulated wealth , scientific knowledge , and industrial capital to provide well-being for all . |
| 3 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | More reassuring in terms of Soviet policy was Gorbachev 's dramatic decision to allow a non-Communist premier to come to power in Poland . |
| 5 | As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power . |
| 6 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |
| 7 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 8 | If Dulac 's version of the interview is to be believed , de Gaulle acknowledged the possibility that he might have to come to power after a military operation against Paris . |
| 9 | The same population which hero-worshipped Hitler would not tolerate ‘ little tin-pot gods ( Nebengötter ) alongside the Führer ’ , and wanted an end to ‘ this glorification of persons who would otherwise practically be nobodies ’ and to the uncalled for luxury-living in a Party which had come to power stating that it would wipe out such corruption . |
| 10 | From the moment he had come to power , Napoleon III had made it plain that for him the problem of Paris was not simply one of creating prosperity for its inhabitants ; rather it was one of transforming and embellishing the city in such a way as to make life better for its inhabitants while simultaneously making it worthy of the new France . |
| 11 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 12 | If you believe all the tourist literature , Charlie , had he come to power , would have made it compulsory to live in rock fissures . |
| 13 | First , several left-wing Labour councils had come to power committed to establishing more effective , and thus inevitably more contentious , local economic policies . |
| 14 | The number two at the Banque Nationale de Pans , Jacques Masson , refused to answer a New Scientist question on whether BNP had increased its financing of innovation since the socialists had come to power . |
| 15 | The successful introduction of a rationalised and acceptable meaning to the word ‘ god ‘ would destroy the dominance of those people , often of superior intelligence , who from time to time have come to power in nearly all civilisations , by exploiting the fear of the unknown among their fellows . |
| 16 | In some countries Marxists have come to power either constitutionally or through nationalist liberation movements as opposed to revolution . |
| 17 | Geographically , Vietnam and Cuba are remote from the Soviet Union , and their ruling élites are cohesive entities which have come to power through their own efforts . |
| 18 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 19 | To US annoyance , Brezhnev supported the Arab cause in the 1973 Middle East war and helped a Marxist government come to power in Angola in 1975 . |
| 20 | Now in the Black Sea region the dynasty , which had come to power after the Persian Wars , ruled a principality centred on Pantikapaion until 438 , when they were succeeded by a new one founded by one Spartokos ( Diod. xi.31 ) . |
| 21 | Comment on the view that without the economic difficulties experienced by Germany before 1933 , the Nazis would not have come to power . |
| 22 | Beonna may have come to power c . |
| 23 | The Handmaid 's Tale projects a not-too-distant future in the US where the evangelical right wing has come to power and the themes of fundamentalist protest have become the dictates of the state . |
| 24 | The massive growth at Manchester airport since the Government have come to power — a 1,100 per cent . |
| 25 | I hope that , before a Labour Government come to power early next year , the hon. Member will give one speech in the mould of a great Select Committee Chairman . |
| 26 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 27 | ( Ver had been charged with the murder in 1984 but acquitted , a verdict which was overturned in 1986 after Corazon Aquino had come to power — see pp. 34297-98 ; 34489 ; 34872 . ) |
| 28 | Lekhanya had come to power in 1986 after a South African-backed coup , and initially restored nominal legislative and executive powers to the King [ see pp. 34786-89 ] . |
| 29 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 30 | On May 10 the government of Gro Harlem Brundtland , which had come to power in November 1990 [ see p. 37868 ] , announced a three-year infrastructure spending package to revive economic growth and reduce unemployment . |