Real power is at present in the hands of few.

However, the head of state may not have very much real power.

It took real power in Washington to make things not happen.

It had never looked like the office of anyone with any real power.

Should he win, however, this voice of change will have real power for the first time.

Well, I've got some business down here that means real power!

In the future the real power will rest with Europe.

I very much hope she never gets this close to any position of real power again.

From those points of view, however, they have real power.

But the Council has no real power to act to stop the violence.