grab for power

This battle looks like a grab for power, on both sides.

Teachers fear Ontario's grab for power will end local control.

This seemed like a grab for power to some, but she saw it differently.

The move was widely interpreted as nothing less than a grab for power.

Put simply, it was a grab for power, real power.

Every effort by the executive branch to keep its policies secret is essentially a grab for power.

His critics say his actions were simply a grab for power.

But others see it as an old-fashioned, minimachine-style grab for power.

His family has been involved in racing for nearly 60 years, George said, so he is not grabbing for power.

"It just opens up more conflict among the political elite as they grab for power.

That's what happens when one side makes a grab for power and the other side wins.

In my opinion Buchanan's grabbing for power, and you were part of the grab."

In fact, the takeover is less a grab for power than an attempt to reassure the public about the school system's integrity.

"Something beyond people grabbing for power, struggling to get to the top of the heap over each other's dead bodies.

But she said her group would not "roll over and play dead in response to this raw grab for power and control."

These military reversals weakened the government, and gave Enver his chance to grab for power.

Then, he issued a strong denunciation of the coup as an illegitimate grab for power.

I suspect that there are many in Iraq waiting for the experiment to fail so they may make their grabs for power.

The Bush administration has lost its credibility at home and abroad with actions that are seen as grabs for power rather than well-planned security policy.

What we're dealing with here is mainly opportunist looting, and some organised grabs for power.

Nonetheless, the effects of Bjelke-Petersen's grab for power were felt nationwide.

That crime was planned by John Gotti as his ultimate grab for power.

"Where would you go if you were a demigod on the verge of making a grab for power?

The accumulators began to grab for power, and Trystin dropped them offline.

That is the terrible consequence of Mr. Gorbachev's latest grab for power.