power structure
Example Sentences
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In the early 1920s, Tojo joined other young officers to break the army’s old-school power structure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The notifications are routine in wiretap investigations once surveillance ends, but the letters set off a wave of panic across California’s political power structure.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
The suspects, said NABU, had created a parallel power structure inside the state enterprise overseeing Ukraine's nuclear power plants, which supply half of the country's energy.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
Within the current U.S. power structure, Baconi’s arguments are controversial.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2025
They shuddered when they imagined the many ways the white power structure could punish them if they took a visible stand for equal rights.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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