1.   Confederation A confederation is an association in which states delegate some power to a supranational central government but retain primary power.

2.   It provided for Kurdish legislative and executive councils, but real power was retained by the central government in Baghdad.

3.   Since then, Gingrich has retained power on the inside, but he stopped making high-profile appearances.

4.   The Liberal Democratic Party has retained power for much of the past half-century.

5.   The master, nevertheless, will always retain the power either to accept or reject the advice.

6.   We insisted that we should retain our power to stop the export of live horses.

7.   Although the Liberal-Nationals eventually retained power in the state by forming a minority government, the result was a serious blow for the coalition at federal level.

8.   Dismissing the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe as a temporary setback, Jiang said that economic development was the key to the CCP retaining power.

9.   However, the National Electoral Commission retained wide powers to ban potential candidates.