power politics
gunboat diplomacy

So they're doing what they can, to make the world safe for power politics.

For the army, this was no longer just power politics.

Your basic old time power politics with the Company in the middle.

Environmental effects on public health are too important to leave to power politics.

At least on a better track than this talk about power politics.

"They've gone back to what they know best, which is power politics," he said of the Democrats.

This will not be just another party engaged in power politics.

In the state capital and its culture of power politics, an open issue is sometimes better than an outcome.

Then the power politics of dress began to shift again.

George Bush is forever putting power politics above concerns for the lives and rights of people.