How to Use power structure in a Sentence

power structure

noun
Definition of power structurenext
  • They are making changes to the power structure of the church.
  • The parade won't happen without the approval of the city's power structure.
  • Women in the company are struggling for equality against the male power structure.
  • So, once all of that changes, the power structure changes.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Ten Point plays by the rules of the white power structure because those are the rules.
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 20 May 2018
  • The last few years have seen a lot of turnover in the Cleveland power structure.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2022
  • That is the same power structure that our film talks about.
    — Alex Rees, Time, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Once again, in the power structure, the decision was made not to show that.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 24 June 2019
  • The result of Monday's game could reshape the power structure of the SEC.
    — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The fact is that old power structures haven’t gone away, even as new ones are still emerging.
    — Irina Aleksander, Vogue, 6 June 2019
  • The across-the-board changes, and the silence, are highlighting the opaque nature of the nation's power structure.
    — Aomar Ouali and Elaine Ganley, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Plus, the duo discusses the new power structure in the front office.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The pair also respected the game, and the power structure of a coaching staff.
    — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The result has been a shifting of the power structure toward the players.
    — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 10 Feb. 2018
  • It’s that power structure that attracts McClay to the Cowboys and the Cowboys to him.
    — Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • But much of the front office power structure has changed since Moore left Atlanta more than a decade ago.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 2 Oct. 2017
  • But Bias would have made the Celtics younger and could have and likely would have altered that power structure to some degree.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 26 June 2020
  • The party’s power structure has shifted to the Hampton Roads area.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Moira notes that an Aunt, due to her place in Gilead's power structure, would make a helpful witness against Gilead.
    — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 2 June 2021
  • The sentencing will show them that no one is above the law, not even a member of the Bloomfield Hills power structure such as Sherr.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
  • With that said, there's a certain power structure to the remaining eight teams.
    — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 4 July 2018
  • All thought, in this view, is filtered first through racial and gender power structures.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Asked to describe the former power structure at the top of the Illinois House, Rita drew a triangle in the air above him.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The power structure has changed; restaurants will now have higher debts.
    — Kamalika Mukherjee, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In 2016, researchers at the Cahokia Mounds released a study that sheds new light on the ancient city’s power structure.
    — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The decision to go to D.C., Littlefield says, came out of a desire to expand the world of the show and explore the power structure of Gilead in more depth.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 June 2019
  • Still, the power structure remains mostly white and male.
    — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Getting to the top disrupts the power structure balance.
    — Fortune, 26 July 2019
  • In Richmond, Maggie Walker and other Black leaders confronted the white power structure head-on.
    — Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Protecting scholars to do their work aided the growth and refinement of secular and religious power structures alike.
    — Bradford Vivian / Made By History, TIME, 16 Aug. 2024

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