The attraction of remaining in power is getting stronger across the region.

Putin s ambition to stay in power as prime minister is also rooted in this rebalancing act.

Assad now appears prepared to give up his chemical weapons in exchange for remaining in power.

That is our regime, our government our atrocious government, that has done every crime in order to stay in power.

Permanence and fraud are, of course, the hallmarks of authoritarian governments everywhere.

He managed to stay at the helm for over forty years with no serious challengers.

Several democratically elected leaders urged constitutional modifications in order to remain in power.

At first, Blair thought that he could claim the right to remain in power for a third full five year term.

But there is one point on which both camps agree Putin intends to remain in power indefinitely.

This is unpalatable to the Bush administration, which has helped keep Musharraf in power, despite the fact that 75 of Pakistanis want him to resign.

He laid out a peace plan that echoed his stance for the past 21 months, refusing to engage the armed rebels and functionally insisting on staying in power.

It wants the Palestinian Authority to accelerate reforms and Israel to put in place the conditions essential to viable Palestinian economic growth.

In the last century, coups d état were often the means by which (mostly military) rulers remained in power for many years, outlawing and persecuting the opposition.

On January 19, Congolese police in Kinshasa violently dispersed protesters opposed to the revision of the electoral law that would allow Joseph Kabila to remain in power.

But, while the tandem continues to see its main achievement as stability, what they now mean is the regime s ability to stay in power for a long time.

The election resulted in a hung parliament Heath's Conservatives were not the largest party, but could stay in office if they formed a coalition with the Liberals.

A variation of this is the authorities' emphasis on the principle of non interference in the internal affairs of the State and on the right to survival, implying survival of the State and the existing power structure.

The muddled, reactive response to the euro crisis reflects the compromises that traditional political parties have made in order to remain in power as generational differences have become increasingly extreme.

Eight years after seizing power and exiling his main civilian opponents, the general is moving heaven and earth to hold on to political office.

But this concept may have even other senses, although he, in various places, saw the will to power as a strong element for adaptation or survival in a better way.

I don't mind staying.

I can stay in the guest room.

I can stay in the guest room.

So the legend lives on.

Only the Weak Survive

Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Israeli Jews are bound to stay in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israeli Arabs are bound to stay in Israel proper.

The greatest danger is that the Jasmine Revolution could go the way of Romania s anti communist uprising of 20 years ago, with the old regime s underlings expelling their bosses in order to stay in power.

During a speech at the meeting, he boasted that Uzbekistan was a partner of the United States in the war on terror and for Karimov the war on terror is tantamount to a license to torture in his quest to remain in power.

Do I have to stay in the hospital?

I prefer going out to staying at home.

These barriers are supported by deep pocketed, self serving corporations and lobby groups, and defended by politicians who are scared that the redistribution of jobs, income, and wealth resulting from freer trade will reduce their chances of remaining in power.

India s many challenges require political arrangements that permit leaders to concentrate on governance and take decisive action, whereas its parliamentary system increasingly promotes drift, indecision, and a narrow focus on survival in power.

And, after Putin falls, the leaders of other authoritarian post Soviet regimes from Belarus s Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakhstan sNursultan Nazarbayev to Ukraine s would be Putin, Viktor Yanukovich will not survive in power for long.

Don't stay too long!

Sami can stay.

They can stay with us.

I would rather stay home than go out with him.

They had to stay at home all day.

She prefers staying home to going out.

It was raining so hard that we decided to stay home.

It can survive for months in fresh and salt water.

I wanted to stay in bed all day.

How could we survive that?

We prefer to stay here.