"in power"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's another example of the use of this phrase to mean "in office [because democratically elected]":

  2007 _Fox News Live_ (FNC TV) (Oct. 18): [The Sarkozies] are the first French Presidential couple to split while they were in power.

  JL

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