corridors of power

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corridors of power 的定义

  1. The offices of powerful leaders. For example, As clerk to a Supreme Court justice, Jim thought he'd get his foot inside the corridors of power. This term was first used by C.P. Snow in his novel Homecomings for the ministries of Britain's Whitehall, with their top-ranking civil servants. Later it was broadened to any high officials.

corridors of power 近义词

corridors of power

等同于 power structure

更多corridors of power例句

  1. From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.
  2. And the fact that satire unnerves the intolerant is evidence of its positive power.
  3. Would the Democrats rescind those rights if they were to return to power?
  4. Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.
  5. What it endangers is a narrow conception of Russian power, understood through the eyes of its dictatorial leader.
  6. For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
  7. Wharton smiled at this littleness in so great a man, but determined that he should feel the power he despised.
  8. He brings out all their power, brilliancy and careering wildness, and makes the greatest sensation of them.
  9. She knew that she alone of all human beings was gifted with the power to understand and fully sympathize with him.
  10. We live in an age that is at best about a century and a half old—the age of machinery and power.