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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Egypt's secular opposition accuses President Morsi of seeking to usurp power - a charge he denies.

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But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline?

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And America's friendship with Britain disqualifies it from pressuring the unionists or from taking centre stage in a way that would seem to usurp Britain's role as sovereign power, or harm British national interests.

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