How to Use power structure in a Sentence

power structure

noun
  • 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.
  • The city’s white power structure had seen enough.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • 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 last few years have seen a lot of turnover in the Cleveland power structure.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Once again, in the power structure, the decision was made not to show that.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 24 June 2019
  • None of the corporate power structure that’s out here, is for us.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
  • Ten Point plays by the rules of the white power structure because those are the rules.
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 20 May 2018
  • All thought, in this view, is filtered first through racial and gender power structures.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The power structure has changed; restaurants will now have higher debts.
    — Kamalika Mukherjee, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In the end, the deals impacted the league's power structure.
    — Jim Reineking, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • What are the power structures at play that allow these kinds of crimes to be committed?
    — HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
  • His victory came in a city where the power structure was mostly white.
    — Olivia Almagro, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Inside the regime’s power structure, the fallout from the war is just as severe.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025
  • Plus, the duo discusses the new power structure in the front office.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • With that said, there's a certain power structure to the remaining eight teams.
    — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 4 July 2018
  • After all, the six women have seen that power structure firsthand.
    — Jo Piazza, Marie Claire, 12 Feb. 2019
  • Among the 10 teams after that, five teams outside of the power structure are in that group.
    — Cj Moore, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • But just as important is the far vaster power structures that impact us today.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • 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
  • And if the Black community did not care, why should the white power structure?
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Other men have also emerged as key figures in the country’s power structure.
    — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The white power structure in America conspired to gun him down.
    — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 22 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • The power structures that compel women to be silent in the face of misconduct have been exposed.
    — Jessica Wakeman, Glamour, 4 Sep. 2018
  • At the end of the day, the power structure that’s here—they’re the only people that still know how to run this country, make things work.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Khamenei presides over a vast power structure of officials who have much to lose from the fall of the theocracy.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Or has the state power structure simply become too big and too entrenched to be swayed by people with signs and bullhorns?
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2025

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