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n. (power base English)
Usage examples of "power bases".
The larger the ground forces we employed, the more damage we would be likely to do to the regime's military forces, thereby further weakening the post-Saddam power bases and making it harder for them to secure their own ethnic and religious regions of the country.
For one thing, if more of them would grow spines and build up other power bases I could use to balance Giancola, it would help a lot when it comes to reining him in.
Trusted aides like Burkow and Lawrence's Press Secretary Adrian Crow had been allowed to create their own little fiefdoms, power bases that won over or alienated other government agencies by rewarding cooperation and success with access to the President and increased responsibilities, punishing failure with backwater assignments and busywork.
With that in mind, anything we can do to reduce Manticore's military, economic, and industrial power bases is eminently worthwhile.
Until we got ourselves organized, they and El Greco were the major human power bases out here.
He also knew that many of the original barons had built their power bases with the Stockpiles, but all of that was a long time ago, nearly a century before the Program of Unification.
On the other hand, the worlds that favored appeasing the Yuuzhan Vong were mostly rich Core systems, with resources vital to the war effort and political power bases critical to Borsk's continued tenure as chief of state.
The more people he can remove from the over-populated country and place in positions of influence overseas, the better the potential to achieve international power bases working under directives from the mother country.
The more people he can remove from the overpopulated country and place in positions of influence overseas, the better the potential to achieve international power bases working under directives from the mother country.
But this centralization will not succeed because it will run up against ethnic-political power bases in the republics.