I did not usurp power, "he wrote," but Idid greatly broaden the use of executive power.

他写道：我不会越权，但我应该在我的权力范围内为最大程度地利用它。

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These complexes are not an individual's core nature, but they do have the power to usurp or possess the ego.

这些情结并不是个体的内在本质，但是他们具有侵占或者摆布自我的能力。

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Such people seem to usurp all the important places in the world; they have power, position, prestige; but their cleverness betrays them at the end.

这样的人似乎占据了世界上所有重要的位置，他们拥有权力、地位、声望，但是他们的聪明最终会背叛他们。

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The secular opposition accuses Mr Morsi of seeking to usurp power - a charge he denies.

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For the president to make these quintessentially legislative judgments on his own would usurp power on an enormous scale.

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