power structure
noun
1
: a group of persons having control of an organization : establishment
2
: the hierarchical interrelationships existing within a controlling group
Examples of power structure in a Sentence
The parade won't happen without the approval of the city's power structure.
Women in the company are struggling for equality against the male power structure.
They are making changes to the power structure of the church.
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Eric, another outsider who’s wormed his way into the power structure, takes Harper under his wing, and the two engage in a prolonged financial folie à deux.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
That decline did little to change the power structure around the team, however, so when players complained about difficult training sessions under Ellis’ successor, Vlatko Andonovski made the practices shorter.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
And with much of Hamas’s organization in Gaza destroyed, other power structures, including clans and even criminal networks, could vie for control and undercut the group.
—Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
Watching Santosh learn the ropes of her local police station is amusing at first, but Goswami sells its increasing complications through silent reaction shots as her character becomes slowly absorbed by this power structure, its in-group language, its secrets and its casual corruption.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 May 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
That decline did little to change the power structure around the team, however, so when players complained about difficult training sessions under Ellis’ successor, Vlatko Andonovski made the practices shorter.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
And with much of Hamas’s organization in Gaza destroyed, other power structures, including clans and even criminal networks, could vie for control and undercut the group.
—Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
Watching Santosh learn the ropes of her local police station is amusing at first, but Goswami sells its increasing complications through silent reaction shots as her character becomes slowly absorbed by this power structure, its in-group language, its secrets and its casual corruption.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 May 2024
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“Power structure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20structure. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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