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Both candidates are doing whatever they can to raise money from their power bases.
Most of her power base is in the city.
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The Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary outfit with close ties to the Kremlin, which has used the conflict to build up its own power base, has offered prisoners a way out of their sentences by volunteering for the front.
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Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2022
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—Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2024
Yet, after the successes of the civil rights movement in the 1960s threatened to dilute his power base, the governor joined forces with special interest groups to promote policies intended to protect big business at the expense of everyday Alabamans.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Barnier’s ousting was the culmination of a political crisis that began when President Emmanuel Macron decided earlier this year to call snap parliamentary elections in a bid, ironically, to shore-up his centrist alliance’s power base in the National Assembly.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2022
Or, if buying qualifying mattresses with an ease power base, plus a $200 instant gift automatically applied in your cart.
—Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2024
Yet, after the successes of the civil rights movement in the 1960s threatened to dilute his power base, the governor joined forces with special interest groups to promote policies intended to protect big business at the expense of everyday Alabamans.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Barnier’s ousting was the culmination of a political crisis that began when President Emmanuel Macron decided earlier this year to call snap parliamentary elections in a bid, ironically, to shore-up his centrist alliance’s power base in the National Assembly.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Power base.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20base. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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