Example sentences of "power [noun] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ensuing power struggle over the right to dictate the newspaper 's political position , the newspaper 's editor was dismissed and replaced by the Communist Party 's own adherents . |
| 2 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 3 | The struggles over the Contagious Diseases Acts need to be read both as a feminist challenge to male power and as a battle within the power bloc over the disciplining of the working-class . |
| 4 | Second , and part of the power battle over the constitution of the Labour Party , there is a concern to secure a democracy in Britain different from that entrenched within the established liberal-democratic constitution and different from that envisaged by the Liberals and Social Democrats . |
| 5 | There were power cuts over the winter of 1947 because the industry could n't cope with the demand . |