corridors of power

1. The offices of powerful leaders. For example, As clerk to a Supreme Court justice, Jim thought he'd get his foot inside the corridors of power. This term was first used by C.P. Snow in his novel Homecomings (1956) for the ministries of Britain's Whitehall, with their top-ranking civil servants. Later it was broadened to any high officials.

Example Sentences

“I would not be a state senator today had it not been for that woman,” said Hulse, who grew up on a hunting ranch, far from the corridors of power.

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Or should they hold firm to their radical principles, more at home protesting outside the corridors of power than cutting deals in the back rooms?

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But when his latest exposé for a local publication calls into question a prominent Tulsa family, his investigation takes him on a dangerous road from the city’s seedy underbelly to its highest corridors of power.

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But in the corridors of power in the U.S. and Europe, they and their Qatari paymasters don suits and ties, rebrand as “moderates” and leverage media credulity and overly generous legal protections to plant ideological roots.

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It extends into the global corridors of power and capital.

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