0 in ice hockey, lacrosse, and some other sports, a situation in which one team has more players than the other because that team has had one or more players temporarily sent off: --
He opened the scoring with a goal in the first period during the final seconds of a power play.
The team had the conference's best power play.
A goal scored by the short-handed team during a power play is called a short-handed goal.
This is a shabby little power play, based on political opportunism.
There seems to be a power play approach which is seen in the arrangements for the appointment of head teachers.
It is neither money nor economic power play the lead in that country, but solidarity and the equality of all people.
Needless to say, if the expert effect were simply a product of the ascetic impulse, it could be read and discounted as subterfuge or power play.
What appears to be calculated condescension may instead be an unintended compromise on the part of the authority figure, a genuine capitulation of power rather than a power play.
