power grab
Noun
Meaning
power grab (plural power grabs)
An attempt to gain authority in an oppressive or unscrupulous way.
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Concerns that this is a power grab by the US and its allies are fuelled by the lack of any African or South American countries amongst the founding partner states.
Hours after Mr Javid quit the Government in a row over a power grab, Mr Johnson's new Cabinet signed off his 'Australian style points system' without any such extension.
In a power grab similar to the one attempted by Antonio Villaraigosa (another endorser of Koziatek), Chicago's mayor appoints the Board of Education and the "CEO."
In an election where the rest of the country was conducting itself with credit, the President himself betrayed the democratic principle, cried foul and attempted a pre-emptive power grab.
Disgusting, naked power grab.
For Gantz to then defy the will of half the nation in some legislative sleight of hand during a caretaker Knesset in order to remove the people’s choice is a power grab unprecedented in Israel’s history.