We do not have access to political power.

Their access to political power in the Carolingian period might also necessitate a need for education.

After independence the bureaucracy used its access to political power to acquire some of the characteristics of a social class.

In a static society that did not permit the commons access to political power, it made a certain sense to seek advancement in the police.

The creation of 16 additional Council districts, increasing the access to political power, and the prospect of public campaign financing have produced many candidates.

This means that the whole population needs equal opportunities and equal access to essential goods such as proper education or access to political power.

Furthermore, it intensely dislikes freedom of association, freedom of opinion, equal access to political power and scope for individual choice.

To the Editor: Your longstanding commitment to defending the rights of those without access to political power deserves the commendation of all of society.

For the poor, the family network represents a crucial welfare system and for the rich, access to political power is determined by family ties and influence.

But a stake in the Government is vital to any religious party in Israel, providing it with access to political power and to state funds for its institutions.

In a foreword to the report, the program's administrator, William Draper, argues that "many of today's struggles are more than struggles for access to political power."

Cortés coordinates regional and national leadership schools that train grassroots leaders to develop community organizations based on access to political power, relationship building, and social justice initiatives.

He added that as "the corporate and governing elites are helping themselves to the spoils of victory," access to political power has become "who gets what and who pays for it."

Ian Pindar writing for The Guardian laments The Information for not fully addressing the relationship between social control of information (censorship, propaganda) and access to political power.

Merchants, especially those with ties to bazaar-based organizations even though their stores were physically located outside the traditional covered bazaars, gained access to political power that they had lacked before the Revolution.

As C.O.P.S. achieved success in its initiatives and gained access to political power, it modified its tactics, preferring to approach city and business leaders in a less dramatic fashion.

"Intervention presupposes the existence of elements in a society that have been somehow denied their legitimate access to political power who would be present in sufficient numbers and strength to put Haiti on a good course," said an official.

In the post-revolutionary era, access to political power, an important basis for measuring influence and elite status in prerevolutionary Iran, has continued to be important for ascribing status, even though the composition of the political elite has changed.

Mr. Zamora and Mr. Ungo are likely to run in the presidential election next year, a course that rebel military commanders once violently opposed but may now support as an opportunity for peace talks that could offer them access to political power.

After promising and then failing to reveal a sinister Chinese plot to influence last year's elections, Senator Thompson left unclear whether he would resume his inquiry into whether foreign money infiltrated American elections in 1996 and how access to political power was bought.

Apart from the political ideology of autochthonism, this concept which originated during the Athenian democracy sends also a message to the previous regime of Tyrants and Oligarchs: all Athenians, earth-brothers and regardless of origin, have equal access to political power.

The last two decades have seen advances in the education and health of women around the world, yet hundreds of millions of women in both rich and poor nations are still significantly undervalued economically, denied access to political power and kept down by crippling inequalities under the law, according to a report released today.