power struggle
noun
: a fight for control
The power struggle between the two owners destroyed the company.
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In the La Jolla power struggle, reforms proposed by the existing group played a key role in the committee’s decision.
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David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
The future shape of the world’s largest democracy — and its economic trajectory — may rest on the power struggle that has ensued.
—Hari Kumar, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Things got a little hot for him after Lenin’s death in 1924, and in the ensuing power struggle he was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin.
—Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
In the ensuing power struggle, paranoid traffickers turn on close associates and inflict ever more grotesque forms of violence on their enemies, and on civilians.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
The 2021 power struggle ended after Australia amended its law and included Facebook temporarily applying a news ban that took down pages for government organizations and nonprofits.
—Richard Lawler, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
Said to have been inducted into the Mexican Mafia in 1994, Torres was stabbed to death in the exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, on July 6 in what law enforcement officials suspect was an internal power struggle over control of the L.A. County jails.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
But just because there is a power struggle, that doesn’t mean that the system will ultimately change.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
In part, this is why you might get caught up in a power struggle with someone.
—Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
The future shape of the world’s largest democracy — and its economic trajectory — may rest on the power struggle that has ensued.
—Hari Kumar, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Things got a little hot for him after Lenin’s death in 1924, and in the ensuing power struggle he was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin.
—Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
In the ensuing power struggle, paranoid traffickers turn on close associates and inflict ever more grotesque forms of violence on their enemies, and on civilians.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
The 2021 power struggle ended after Australia amended its law and included Facebook temporarily applying a news ban that took down pages for government organizations and nonprofits.
—Richard Lawler, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
Said to have been inducted into the Mexican Mafia in 1994, Torres was stabbed to death in the exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, on July 6 in what law enforcement officials suspect was an internal power struggle over control of the L.A. County jails.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
But just because there is a power struggle, that doesn’t mean that the system will ultimately change.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
In part, this is why you might get caught up in a power struggle with someone.
—Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
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“Power struggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20struggle. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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