| NOUN | a power structure | power structures | |
| SYNO | hierarchy | pecking order | power structure |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- In March 1917 the Russian February Revolution shook the European power structure.
- A power structure describes power and dominance relationships in a larger society.
- His fundamental belief is that any power structure relies upon the subjects' obedience to the orders of the ruler(s).
- After the destruction of the Mittani by the Hittites in the early 14th century BC Assyria rose in power creating a three way power structure in the region between the Kassites, Hittites, and Assyrians with Elam exerting influence from the east and Egypt from the south.
- All personal narratives are seen as ideological because they evolve from a structure of power relations and simultaneously produce, maintain and reproduce that power structure".
- Some scholars consider that the material of Genesis 32–35, including the account of Jacob being renamed Israel at Penuel, may be a later addition that introduces a new power structure centered around the establishment of sacral places in the North (Penuel, Shechem and Bethel).
- The cult was directed from above by members of the imperial circle through official initiatives within the pro-imperial power structure.
- Organizing often means building a widely accessible power structure, often with the end goal of distributing power equally throughout the community.
- They will no longer see the arrangement of societal norms as an effect of the Church's deep-seated power structure.
- In his historical investigations he found truth to be something that was itself a part of, or embedded within, a given power structure.
- Saddam actively fostered the modernization of the Iraqi economy along with the creation of a strong security apparatus to prevent coups within the power structure and insurrections apart from it.
- Johnson wrote that Austen's view of a power structure capable of reformation was not an "escape" from conflict.
- Together with Deleuze, the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Félix Guattari criticized the Oedipal and schizophrenic power structure of psychoanalysis and its connivance with capitalism in "Anti-Oedipus" (1972) and "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980), the two volumes of their theoretical work "Capitalism and Schizophrenia".
- However, in practice the power structure became reversed and, particularly after the death of Lenin in January 1924, supreme power became the domain of the General Secretary.
- The Soviet power structure essentially consisted (according to its critics) of groups of vassals (clients) who had an overlord (the patron).
- Moreover, federalism brings in the elites and ethnic entrepreneurs into the central power structure; this prevents a resurgence of top-down ethnic conflict.
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