power structure

Example Sentences

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More practically, Ghalibaf is only one of the few Iranian leaders at the center of the power structure that is still alive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

In Steve McQueen’s dynamic crime thriller, Duvall plays a Chicago politician who has long been a part of the local power structure attempting to hand things off to his son.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

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