ACCUMULATION OF POWER collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of accumulation and power
accumulation
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/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
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/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
an amount of something that has ...
power
noun
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/paʊər/us
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/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
Examples of accumulation of power
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When it was used for the common good, the people prospered and witchcraft (the private accumulation of power which threatened societal order) was suppressed.
Most of the time, they are the outcome of quasi-rational institutional engineering by an elite pursuing the control of the state for accumulation of power and wealth.
Secondly, there is the accumulation of power at the centre.
I refer to the process by which there is a constant accumulation of power.
I have spent a lot of my time in the last fifty years trying to study the problem of the accumulation of power.
Funding must have limits, and a basic principle of democracy is that there should not be any accumulation of power.
However, with the advent of agriculture people's lifestyle changed completely, leading to the advent of private property and the accumulation of power.
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Finding this balance between transgressing autonomy and dangerous accumulation of power could prove difficult, and associationalism appeared to be a possible solution.
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Western anthropologists have considered "naparay" as part of a cultural practice that limits the accumulation of power among a small group within a community.
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In the world today accumulations of power, whether commercial power or the power of officialdom, are increasing.
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