1.   His leadership style was to maintain power through a combination of force and cunning strategy.

2.   Celestine had maintained power through an inner caucus of some seven to ten cardinals, a group that did not include the young Lothar, cardinal deacon of SS.

3.   Hitler and Mussolini manipulated social policy to maintain their power, using social reform as a way of controlling society and creating a totalitarian basis of support.

4.   America was no longer able to maintain its power throughout the Middle East.

5.   As with his quick-fix campaign promises, Thaksin could find himself seeking shortcuts to maintain power.

6.   At present his clearest antagonists are Interior Ministry officials trying to maintain power both in Moscow and in Chechnya.

7.   Authoritarian states employ democide to maintain power.

8.   Because most Maya city-states were small and inherently weak, Mayanists say, kings typically had to resort to such ceremonial strategies to help justify and maintain their power.

9.   Both the bloody massacre and the banning of pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong reflect a preoccupation among Chinese leaders with maintaining unchallenged power, he said.

10.   According to the petition, FPL incurred substantial expenses in maintaining its power generating plants in Florida and Georgia.