0 an area of a country or a group of people on which someone's power depends:
The industrial cities are the Labour Party's traditional power base.
She perseveres in her role, but the power base by which she rose and flourished has been eroded.
These corporate units provided wealth but also a political power base.
Here, individual incumbents may gain power within the party because of the strength of their local power base or their strategic position within the legislature.
The starting point for all is power base theory-i. e., what criteria are to be used for measuring the power of states.
The analysts, in their turn, cannot look for the hidden power base of their critics without implicitly accepting their case.
At least some politicians believe that maintaining an independent power base will improve the deal they can strike with the president.
It seems that when the power base is secure, appointments can concentrate on competence.
The origin and power base of evil, however, are in the outer circle.
