The power base for Abbas, a U.S. ally, is anchored firmly in the West Bank.
In Strasbourg, a former Jospin minister was ousted from her power base by 41-year-old Fabienne Keller.
These unions, representing public-sector workers, are a key part of Mr Sweeney's power base.
Michigan Governor John Engler, meanwhile, was recruiting a mighty power base among the nation's G.
Can Ms Gilowska, who lacks a power base of her own, fight off spending ministries?
Achieving that means pandering more to the independent voters and liberal Republicans, less to the Democratic power base.
No other black leader has been as successful at building a national power base from a local following.
Mr Luzhkov's office on Tverskaya Street may well be the best power base in Russia, after the Kremlin.
Mr Berisha's new power base is up north in Shkodra, now becoming rich again from smuggling with next-door Montenegro.
The dual-class share structure at News Corp gives a strong power base to Rupert Murdoch and his close allies.
They come in riding high expectations for pro-business, pro-growth policies--and inevitably disappoint investors as they drift away from their power base.
It says that many in France believe Jospin is trying to strengthen his power base at the expense of President Jacques Chirac.
Thursdays tend to be party nights in Medellin, Colombia's third-largest city and former power base of the late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Rural voters, the LDP's traditional power base, have become particularly disillusioned, not least because of the revolving door at the agriculture ministry.
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With a reduced Scottish power base, he will have to win support in Labour's English heartlands, particularly in the north of England.
The Marcos clan is rebuilding its political and business power base too.
After forming an opposition party, the National Movement, he was elected head of Tbilisi city council where he built up a power base.
It's the power base of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and we're told that Iraqi forces have moved into that area in force today.
Until now western diplomats and aid agencies have supported her and she has skilfully used that support to strengthen her power base yet further.
This is especially important because the assembly is the power base of the LDP's coalition partner, New Komeito, which gives the party its majority.
And it would open up a rival power base to that of the prime minister, something a Westminster system is not designed to cope with.
That reshuffle also saw two of Mr Prescott's closest supporters - Alan Meale and Richard Caborn - removed from his department, significantly weakening his power base.
"There were two sets of people who didn't want to give up their power base, " says Morris Tabaksblat , then an outside director and Unilever's executive chairman.
But politically, the move would take the number of subcontinental teams to four and further strengthen a power base that has for some time been shifting eastwards.
Before 1998, the Republican Governors had never coalesced as a power base, partly because there had never been such a critical mass, 32 of them in all.
Some in the elite argue that, although Mr Medvedev lacks his own power base, he has the most important resource of all: the seal and signature of the president.
Mr Manos is trying to build a power base for the Liberals in Greece's provinces and islands, where people are most dissatisfied with the Socialists' gradual approach to modernisation.
That move was crucial because it gave Davis control of the money Congress hands out to prospective candidates, and there is no better way to build a power base.
He did not build alliances within the country that might have reinforced his power base and he shied away from travelling abroad to whip up potential support in the West.
But that strategy would give him time to transfer his position and executive functions from the Yugoslav federal presidency back to his power base within the republic of Serbia itself.
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