Probably to try to keep power over me, he thought.

I do know that a Center nation can keep its cultural power long after it has lost political control.

They used the ongoing war and the army to keep their power.

"But long enough to keep your power from touching me until I have said my say."

He's willing to do anything to keep and maintain power.

No matter how a government is chosen, it must do politics to keep power.

And it was an effective tool to keep power in a few hands.

It is how the Communists have kept power ever since.

"Yes, it is a way to keep his power from overwhelming one."

Here was a family determined if at all possible to keep royal power in its own hands.