He influenced people in positions of power.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

They must count everyone in the equation of power, he stressed,and allow the people to determine their own destiny.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The Liberian Electric Company will then sell that power to people in Monrovia for about half what they are paying now.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Remember,all political power is inherent in the people and government is supposed to be working for the people.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

"It is a great medium to reach people, people in academics started to understand the power of gaming."

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

Even some conservatives are concerned about what the people currently in power in Honduras are doing in the face of protests by Zelaya supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

"The power structure in Kandahar in the eyes of the people of Kandahar is the problem number one, and the Taliban and al-Qaida number two."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

That flooding and persistent power cuts sparked riots in the Pikine neighborhood where people barricaded roads with burned tires and smashed the windows of a police vehicle.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

When reminded that the sanctions targeted him and his inner circle he pointed out that he was still in power but the country's ordinary people were suffering.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Mr.Obama said he and Mr.Medvedev agreed to coordinate humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan, where about 2,000 people have died in violence after the president was removed from power.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The Union of the Gabonese People candidate finished second to Omar Bongo in 1998 and 2005, and says Gabon can not accept power passing "dynastically" from father to son.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

In a sharp attack on Iranian leaders last Friday, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned those in power to "abide by the will of the people" and heal the wounds of the recent crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The new Philippines president is the son the late former President Corazon Aquino who was revered by many for her role in leading the "people power" revolt that ousted the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

"When unemployment is 9.7 percent, when we are still digging ourselves out of an extraordinary recession, people are going to be frustrated, and they are going to be looking to the party in power to try to fix it.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

In Kenya,Human Rights Watch says, people are losing faith that the power-sharing government of President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga will act against powerful politicians and business leaders accused of supporting and inciting ethnic violence in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections in 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03