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hold power

collocation in English

meanings of holdand power


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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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Examples of hold power


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Others who participate and holdpower within them must undertake change.
From this viewpoint, group identities and status have not moved on, those who holdpower have neatly managed their representations.
Many officials who holdpower in the allocation of resources are ready to sell their power to criminal gangs in exchange for material benefits.
They are responsible, because it is they who holdpower.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
My party will not holdpower for ever.
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Where we holdpower, that lobbying turns into action.
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Not to get money, but to holdpower.
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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 to holdpower.
Judicial authority requires that court rulings are accepted and complied with by the affected parties and by those who holdpower in the larger political structure.
They both holdpower in their respective areas and with regard to their respective peoples.
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Some methods which they have used to gain or holdpower have been spectacularly nasty.
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Those who holdpower must be accountable to those who put them into such positions of power.
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It was never to holdpower again.
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His father felt him to be unsuitable to holdpower.
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As we all know, the most powerful means of controlling anyone engaged in any kind of public service is to holdpower over 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 who holdpower.
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Those who holdpower should 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 to holdpower, 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 who holdpower, than to those who are in opposition.
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The demonstrations by the citizens of these countries against the ossified regimes which holdpower have, however, brought hope for permanent political change.
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One man may have to holdpower to 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 to holdpower for so long.
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Those who holdpower should 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 temporarily holdpower.
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