Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
llegada al poder
English translation:
his coming to power / accession to power
Spanish term
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Native in: Spanish (Variant: Venezuelan)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish
llegada al poder
"Su **llegada al poder** venía precedida por 20 años de declive económico con los pobres conformando la mayoría del país."
"A diferencia de Fidel Castro, el Presidente venezolano no llegó al poder** por la fuerza. "
Tengo perfectamente claro el significado, pero no encuentro la expresión equivalente en inglés. Mil gracias por adelantado.
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Marina Soldati
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Jonia Tamburi
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Nikki Graham
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| 4 | arrival in power,attaining power |
muitoprazer (X)
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Lucy Phillips
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Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish
his coming to power
... streets in an open-top limousine, as if foreshadowing his coming to power.
... crime would be eligible for parole immediately on his coming to power. ...
www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m4/ - 19k - 29 Ago 2005 - En caché - Páginas similares
Sinan - [ Traduzca esta página ]
He was a weak leader but his coming to power saw Sinan achieve his first major
position in which he directed the hospitals and all medical activities in ...
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sinan.html - 11k - En caché - Páginas similares
allAfrica.com: Uganda [opinion]: Time for Museveni to Go? - [ Traduzca esta página ]
His coming to power was at a time when the country was nursing a chronic cancer
of dictatorship. Many Ugandans saw him as a saviour that had come to rescue ...
allafrica.com/stories/200508021040.html - Páginas similares
USAfrica online "INSIDE AFRICA" - [ Traduzca esta página ]
His coming to power in 1976 was a coup: no one voted for him, neither did anyone
elect the late General Murtala Mohammed president. ...
www.usafricaonline.com/inside_a/complex_path.html
Commentary Magazine - Adolf Hitler, by John Toland - [ Traduzca esta página ]
So impressive were his reforms that "if Hitler had died in 1937 on the fourth
anniversary of his coming to power-the great economic crisis notwithstandinghe ...
www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V62I6P81-1.htm - 20k
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Thanks so much Ana
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Sergio Gaymer
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Mil gracias Sergio
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Anne Spence
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Marisa Osovnikar
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Thanks Mar
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Philippe Maillard
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Mil gracias Philippe
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Joaquim Siles-Borràs
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MLG
: or rise to power
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Thans MLG
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Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
: that this is FINE
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Thanks Jane. Have a nice day!
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Mariela Malanij
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Thanks so much Mariela
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milliecoquis
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Ana Torres
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Marcelo González
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Mil gracias marcelo
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arrival in power,attaining power
assumption of power
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muitoprazer (X)
: exacto! implies "golpe de estado" !
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United Kingdom
before he came to power...
I would change the sentence around.
His coming to power was preceded by... just doesn't sound good to me at all.
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Note added at 55 mins (2005-08-31 14:37:42 GMT)
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as for the second one, he did not come to/take/seize power by force
You may find this interesting:
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/What_to_Do.pdf
Canada
Translation is an art.
Native in: Albanian (Variants: Toske / Tosk, Gegë / Gheg) 
, English (Variants: British, US, Canadian)
Works in: Albanian to English, English to Albanian, Spanish to English, and 3 more.
ascension to power
I hope that helps!
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(A document on Mandela's Ascension to Power in South Africa)
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:2239993&r...
"Mandela's Ascension To Power In S. Africa
New Pittsburgh Courier; 4/20/1994; Samuel L. Banks
Search for more information on HighBeam Research for ascension to power.
Samuel L. Banks
New Pittsburgh Courier
04-20-1994
Mandela's Ascension To Power In S. Africa.
After 27 years of lonely, painful and enervating imprisonment in his indigenous South Africa, Nelson Mandela is now in a propitious position to assume the reins of power in South Africa. It is a foregone conclusion, in spite of the diversionary tactics of a small band of white South African malcontents, reactionaries and racists, that the overwhelming number of the 30 million Black South Africans will vote for Mandela in the April 26-28 election."
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=20794
The term "ascending to power" has been used in the article below as can be seen in the excerpt.
"First the Power, then the Government
The old Communist Party has changed its name but not its tactics, and has through skillful political maneuvers has now gained power in Italy without an electoral mandate.
By Alberto Carosa
Dec. 06, 2001
January 8,1999, will go down in history as the date when a Roman Pontiff met for the first time with a Communist leader who had succeeded in ascending to power in a major western European country. The Pope's 25-minute conversation at the Vatican by Italian premier Massimo D'Alema, which the International Herald Tribune rightly described as a "historic visit," received an enormous flurry of coverage in the secular media. For the most part, in their coverage of the event, reporters bent over backwards to provide what the Communists most desperately need for their motley government coalition: legitimacy."
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Marcelo González
: "ascent to power" as well :-)
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Elegant precision - published writer
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, English, Portuguese to English
accession to power
I think 'coming to power' is okay too, but this is another more specific option, much used in political/historical writing.
The second example would be 'accede to power'
Here are some references:
The Trial of German Major War Criminals (Volume 1)
After the accession of the Nazi conspirators to power, it developed many departments,
agencies, formations and branches and extended its influence and ...
www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/ tgmwc/tgmwc-01/tgmwc-01-01-09.html - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
Eadred -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Upon Eadred's accession to power, the Northumbrians acknowledged his overlordship,
but they soon proclaimed as their king Erik Bloodax, son of the Norwegian ...
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031696 - 42k - Cached - Similar pages
Opinions / Elections 2005 / e-democracy.md
In the event of accession to power, what steps on the internal and external planes
and in what order do you think should be undertaken to solve the conflict ...
www.elections2005.md/opinions/transnitria/8/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
ThisNation.com--The Antifederalist Papers No. 47
... scale would presently preponderate to one or the other body, and with every
accession of power the means of further increase would be greatly extended. ...
www.thisnation.com/library/antifederalist/47.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages
Foreign Policy Centre: Articles / Five years on: the changing tide ...
Five years after President Putin's accession to power, portraying Russia as a
friend of the West, sharing values and a mutual commitment to democracy, ...
www.fpc.org.uk/articles/325 - 11k - 29 Aug 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
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