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Since the traders obtained power we have been a country on all fours.
2
If anyone fears a threat, it's only those who obtained power improperly, he said.
3
Having obtained power, they embarked upon a campaign of nationalization.
4
Of the few conscientious and patriotic men who obtained power, the greater number lost it very speedily.
5
He had but recently before been successful in a military revolution, by which he had obtained power.
6
You are perhaps going to ask me how Dr. Fu-Manchu has obtained power over such people as phansigars?
7
The corporation have recently obtained power to establish water works, and to purchase up the plant of an existing company.
8
When the Whigs obtained power in 1830, they found the three estates of the realm opposed to them, and the Government, therefore, could not proceed.
9
The late Maharāja Sir Jang Bahādur obtained power in 1846, and, after his visit to England in 1850, decided to abide by the English alliance.
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(672) One of the band of incapables who obtained power and place on the fall of Walpole.