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