I wish more of our savvy, high-achieving women would wake up to the fact that power and status accrue to those who write large checks to worthy causes.

The more that officials of government agencies become military officers, the more that unrestricted power accrues to the top of the chain of command, Mr. Bush.

And yet an indisputable power accrues in the show, amplified by its credibility as history and in the virtuosic turn required of the actor.

For years, media moguls and gadflies alike have argued about whether greater power accrues to the owners of content (like films and television programs) or distribution (like cable and satellite systems).

It is rambling and almost coy; its power accrues, slowly but with terrible, smiling force, as the lives of two couples are unraveled and scorched raw during a late-night drinking binge.

Hegemonic powers naturally and structurally accrue resources and then diversify in such a way as to decentralize power, eventually fading in deference to new hegemonies.

It is not that special powers do not accrue for the yogi; rather it is simply that these siddhis are not what they appear to be.

As a result, the real power accrued to Mr. Hammer, who has not used it particularly well.

Though in elected governments rule does not pass automatically by inheritance, political power often accrues to generations of related individuals in republics.

So more power accrued to managers, many of whom had ties to developers or securities firms.