Sentences with phrase «fill the power vacuum»

Only in the west did the church largely fill the power vacuum left by the fall of Rome.

Yet both he and his successor, Louis van Gaal, seemed to lack the character needed to fill the power vacuum in the Old Trafford hot seat.

If the state does not establish its presence quickly, these groups may move to the regions the FARC leave behind and fill the power vacuum.

In many parts of the country, third parties are often better placed than the state to fill power vacuums.

A number of paramilitary groups recently seem to be growing stronger, and may be in a better position than the state to fill the power vacuum the FARC leave behind.

New Jersey Democratic leaders immediately made a play to fill the power vacuum — encouraging state Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D - Cape May) to run for the congressional seat next year.

Bulger filled the power vacuum, and with Connolly's protection, his organization gradually became the most powerful in Boston.

Veep creator Armando Iannucci's blistering new comedy of errors begins with a heart attack that loosens Joseph Stalin's iron grip on Russia; his cabinet members promptly rush to fill the power vacuum left in his wake.

He grew up during an especially turbulent time in the country's history — witnessing the departure of the occupying USSR troops; the ensuing civil war that inflicted incredible hardship on the population as warlords from the Mujahideen sought to fill the power vacuum; the subsequent takeover by the Taliban; and finally the Taliban's ouster by the foreign coalition formed after 9/11.

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That religious and ethnic factions have turned on the occupation forces, and on each other as the power vacuum was not fully filled by the coalition - backed new democratic government.

The result was that faith became a complete vacuum to be filled by revelation — by the power of the sacred alone.

Yet while the Afro - Asian peoples are still in a sense unachieved — still not formidable as autonomous and well - constituted powers — there is always a danger that if the Western nations withdraw their interest from them, a vacuum will be formed, a vacuum which Soviet Russia will infallibly try to fill.

It easily fills the vacuum left by a tepid and secularized Christianity that has lost a palpable sense of God's presence and power.

It leaves a power vacuum to be filled by other organized interests.

The power vacuum created by the ex-tyrants in the Middle East has been filled by Muslim clerics and extremists.

The Boss should please fill this 3rd striker vacuum that is existing in his squad, irrespective of the coming back of Welbeck which by then will be an added power to the Gunners line.

On Thursday, the green and lush display house was filled with the roar of high - powered vacuum cleaners as workers meticulously sucked out shards of glass from the fronds of each fern, the tops of lichen - covered rocks and in the dirt that anchors the foliage.

Israel withdrew its army and 8,000 settlers from Gaza Strip; the power vacuum was soon filled by Hamas, and this densely populated coastal strip became a launching pad for thousands of rockets against Israeli civilian areas, provoking two mini-wars.

This leadership vacuum has been filled by a protracted low - intensity power struggle pitting the NTC against the militias.

If there is chaos that creates a power vacuum, somebody will find a way to fill the void.

You must ensure that we get to power for you to fill the vacuum left.

So the biggest thing Silver still had working in his favor was concern about creating a power vacuum, which would likely be filled by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Anna Kendrick and Rosario Dawson pose with a politically themed pillow.Mayor Mike Bloomberg and New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly were not on hand, having flown back to Manhattan after a car full of explosives was discovered in Times Square, but there were plenty of other power brokers available to fill the vacuum.

Much of that power vacuum will be filled, for good or ill, by citizens.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has a power vacuum, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to fill it.

Like a lot of adventures, «Black Panther» turns on a familiar father - and - son drama — there's an assassination, a power vacuum and a somewhat reluctant heir — a patrilineal intrigue that is filled in here with intense face - offs involving questions of ancestry, identity, the African diaspora, the new world and the old.

When dogs are killed a power vacuum for new dogs is created, which gets filled with dogs who are neither sterilised nor vaccinated, so as a «solution'this will never work, let alone how as dog lovers we feel about the humane side of things.

The premise of the game is that the delightfully brilliant Lord Vetinari, patrician / dictator of Ankh - Morpork, has suddenly vanished, leaving in his wake a power vacuum which many people are eager to try to fill.

A fat, feckless and fecund public — the «extremely selfish population» — is no longer trusted to count as the body politic; «civil society» fills the political vacuum created between people and government by the elevation of political power to supranational institutions.

So, for much of the past few decades, parliamentary power has waned, and judges may have unconsciously filled the vacuum.

While state supreme courts and other state judicial authorities have the de jure power, for the most part they fail, for whatever reason (s), to exercise it, leaving a regulatory vacuum open for the ABA to fill.