Sentences with phrase «to keep someone in power»

When kept in power - saving mode, the monitor stays off usually, but it is turned by any sound in your baby's room.

Whatever keeps them in power is what they will use.

Rules are meant to keep those in power from falling out of power (this would be men).

According to him, the former president can not be blamed because he provided good counsel which could have kept them in power if they had listened to him.

He was making the best of a bad situation - and it's kept him in power ever since.

The cars worked very well with stick shifts because without a manual transmission the engines were impossible to keep in the power band.

She is following a succession of fiscally impaired, torn - mainsail governments (Stelmach, Redford, Prentice) under a PC party that had become nearly as fossilized as the resource that kept it in power for over four decades.

Loeb's financial support of the Senate Republicans has been widely reported, as has his contribution to the IDC and his donations to a pro-charter school independent expenditure that spent heavily on behalf of members of both conferences in the last election cycle and helped keep them in power.

For Trump, the dispute runs the risk of blunting the economic benefits of his tax overhaul, which is at the center of congressional Republicans» case for voters to keep them in power in the 2018 elections.

This week, David Cameron exercised the trait which might just keep him in power after 2015.

They have suffered immensely from a regime that kept itself in power by brute force.

Senate session went on as planned Monday afternoon, with little of substance being discussed and many Republican Senators expressing solidarity with Skelos, the man who kept them in power against the odds.

It has reached the stage when if we lose it doesn't matter because it just might persuade the French Dictator to go... or Kroenke to stop keeping him in power.

wenger had decided some time ago that we had enough attacking options to achieve 4th place with alexis, giroud, walcott wellbeck and campbell... he might be right... what is for sure we will not be challenging for titles at home or abroad... but the colonel does nt need that to keep in power so he «s happy...

Simone Gbagbo is accused of planning and organising rights abuses against supporters of her husband's presidential rival to try to keep him in power at any cost.

Right now, the single person keeping them in power is one Simcha Felder of Brooklyn who calls himself a Democrat but sides with the Republicans.

If Labour were to continue to trail in third place, the Liberal Democrats could scarcely keep it in power, whether Labour ended up the largest party by a quirk of the electoral system or not.

That said, if the Tories manage to get an actual majority, go about their own electoral «reform» and keep themselves in power for a while without going anywhere near PR, I suspect Nick Clegg will go down as the worst player of a good electoral hand in history.

The Republican majority in the State Senate that Killian wishes to join and help keep in power has the same problem; what exactly do they stand for?

«Congressman, you know that she caucuses with the Republicans, keeping them in power in the NY Senate despite a numerical minority?»

Due to the fact that most people who follow them have been effectively brainwashed to the point that they can say anything and those who keep them in power and pay their salaries will not think for themselves for fear of imaginary consequences.

Always thought it would be Obama who would try and remove the two - term limit to keep himself in power.

It'll take higher oil prices or electoral shenanigans to keep him in power.

It is the hiding of what is going on that has kept them in power.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

But, as Tillich points out, Luther did not appreciate sufficiently that love's strange work can be used by those in power as a means for keeping themselves in power.

S. rioting in Lebanon, where the CIA had helped install President Camille Caiman and keep him in power, leads the U.S. to dispatch 70 naval vessels, hundreds of aircraft and 14,000 Marines to Lebanon to preserve «stability.»

In this case they say a lot of nothing, because they know enough people will not see through their B.S. to keep them in power.

I'm so tired of being told what's good for me by men who've created systems that favor them and keep them in power!

In fact they truly need their victims to feel this way, because it is what will keep them in power.

Leftist governemnts promote welfare so that they have bought off enough votes to keep them in power, but it stunts the growth of the country until it collapses.

We need to be aware of how our relationships with the accused and our desire to keep them in power might affect how we interpret the situation.

The last 10 years have shown that once you get to the top you are not safe, like say in the US, but are simply a large asset to be purged as the Russian economy shrinks and Putin is able to pay off less and less of the oligarchs to keep him in power.

He's funded by Albany lobbyists and big real estate interests, and they'll spend serious cash to keep him in power.»

If the Tories become the party of social justice as well as economic responsibility it won't be the better - the - devil - you - know inadequacies of Jeremy Corbyn or Ed Miliband that keep them in power — voters will actively prefer them to stay in power.

«It's all about his tribal politics, satisfying this or that group in his conference that keeps him in power — and nothing more,» said an administration source.

The Rivera family brushed off the Assemblywoman's well - publicized scandals, and assumed that its brand of ethno - politics would keep it in power, as it always had.

But Mr. Ragusa's northern faction was able to keep him in power, despite several setbacks this year.

As for Dean Skelos U have made to many deals to keep in power & the deals have only weaken the Senate GOP, but it still is in power & that says a lot too.

If the SNP were pivotal this would be sufficient to keep them in power and in effect be propping up a Conservative government.

Add to this we have many political parties who vie for Muslim vote bank to keep themselves in power.

One answer would be for manifesto writers to cease stuffing those documents with promises that politicians half - expect or fully realise they won't be able to keep in power.

«It's all about his tribal politics, satisfying this or that group in his conference that keeps him in power — and nothing more.»

Akufo - Addo noted that «with defeat staring him in the face, Mahama will do or say anything to keep him in power.

Instead of serving the citizens that elected them to office, they serve the special interests who have kept them in power.»

Politicians who have been in the state senate for decades have no interest in changing the corrupt system that has kept them in power.