exercise power
Example Sentences
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Yet beneath the reticence, the magazine detected a politician already learning how to exercise power.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The wives of the ADF commanders, some of whom are particularly influential, also exercise power over the young recruits.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
The first thing she did was exercise power over the case at all.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2024
Now much of Latin America lives under a hybrid form of government in which both democratic states and organized criminal groups exercise power — sometimes in competition and sometimes together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
The reality, however, is that the existing hierarchy disciplines newcomers, requiring them to exercise power in the same old ways and play by the same old rules in order to survive.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
