Elected leader illegally maintaining or increasing power.
1A power grab was afoot, and she needed to be very careful.
2It is this virtual power grab that will be most difficult to combat.
3The people educated themselves on the issues and rejected this blatant power grab.
4Prohibition, the Fed, income tax, and the power grab that happened around 1915.
5Incandescent at Parry's involvement, they see the scheme as being a power grab.
6Other regulators feared a power grab and the chancellor backed the status quo.
7The FCC unilaterally swiped jurisdiction from the FTC in a blatant power grab.
8Following Rajoelina's power grab, donors suspended budget support, the economy stalled and poverty deepened.
9We have the UN making a power grab to administrate all these new worlds.
10Or what about Obama's increasing power grab on private capital?
11Other regulators feared a power grab and the finance minister backed the status quo.
12Democrats had criticized the legislation as a last-minute power grab.
13Analysts say a Houthi power grab could galvanise these movements.
14Analysts say a Houthi power grab could galvanize these movements.
15Amber is in bad enough shape without another power grab.
16The African Union suspended Madagascar last week and the United Nations criticised Rajoelina's power grab.
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