• Unfortunately these arguments rarely acknowledge the need to contextualize the cost of administering these subsidies in the current regime of centralized government-dominated power generation and transmission.

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  • Tutsis, who make up 14% of the population but have traditionally dominated power, will have 40% of seats in the national assembly, compared to 60% for Hutus.

    BBC: Ballots were colour-coded, black for No, white for Yes

  • He said there was something specific about the 1960s and 1970s, in which sexual liberation collided with traditional male-dominated power structures, and powerful men took advantage of the situation.

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  • While the 1980s and early '90s were dominated by power pieces from luxury brands such as Boucheron, today's looks are more individualistic.

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  • In an era dominated by power, profit and loss, the author marvels at the nobility of spirit of a community of Cistercian Trappist monks in Algeria, seven of whom ended up dead at the hands of Islamic extremists.

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  • Since all political, legislative and executive power is dominated by one institution which has 79 million members, there are no other channels for the average Chinese citizen.

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  • As the 39th U.S. president, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords and the Panama Canal treaties, but his last year in power was dominated by the Iran hostage crisis.

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  • At a minimum, both seemed to agree, a new local-government law must be passed so as to give municipalities (including Albanian-dominated ones) the power to raise and spend money freely.

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  • The SDLP, instrumental in encouraging republicans to join the peace process, has been partly sidelined as the impasse between Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionists over guns and sharing power has dominated the process for more than two years.

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  • Power generation is dominated by five major state-owned companies in China, which together account for just over half of total electricity output reducing the scope for local officials to distort the data.

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  • One of the most basic causes of this continuous erosion of national power throughout the world is the transformation of minority-dominated enclaves within nation-states into ungovernable areas where state power is either not applied or applied in a haphazard and generally unconstructive manner.

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  • Coal has dominated the U.S. power industry for so long because it's a cheap and abundant domestic resource.

    MSN: Coal producers find themselves in a hard place

  • The two political heavyweights have been embroiled in a power struggle that has dominated Malawian headlines in recent years.

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  • Landis likened the situation to Iraq, where minority Sunnis who prevailed during the Saddam Hussein regime lost their clout after a populace dominated by Shiites and Kurds took power.

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  • Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.

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  • All of which points to a different future for a power provider whose fleet is dominated by fossil fuels.

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  • Its economy is dominated by shadow business empires and its power is protected by a shadow army of enforcers.

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  • Hamas, a militant Islamist group, has controlled Gaza since 2007, when it seized power from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority after a short-lived coalition government failed.

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  • The suspicion is that the army has no intention of surrendering real power to an Islamist-dominated parliament, and may be hatching plans to tilt the presidential election to its advantage.

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  • At a recent Wharton San Francisco event with the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley tech and business forum, whether technology will power the next job boom dominated conversation, particularly focusing on the growing gap between the number of college graduates and the number of jobs available.

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  • One idea is to reduce the power of the (opposition-dominated) upper house to block legislation.

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  • The market as a whole is dominated by a relatively small number of big power companies and investment banks, raising worries about asymmetry of information.

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  • This is particularly true because those who are calling the shots in Moscow these days -- the former Communist nomenklatura -- have made clear their intention to preserve and sustain the centerpiece of their power base: the military-dominated state industries.

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  • IPPs among them Hubco, a joint venture dominated by Saudi Arabia's Xenel and National Power are too high.

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  • With only three weeks to go before the polls, the formerly unthinkable - a return to power by the media magnate who has dominated Italian politics for the past two decades - has now become possible, political observers are saying.

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  • The Sadr City fighting reflects the intra-Shiite power struggle in Iraq between Iraqi security forces dominated by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.

    CNN: Clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City kill 20

  • During the Bush years, the so-called neoconservative camp believed it had formulated the means of convincing an American electorate dominated by the leftist media to support the projection of American power in the Islamic world.

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  • Far from being out of power for the past 16 years, the Democrats have dominated the legislature.

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  • The attacks took place as thousands of Sunnis held protest rallies in several cities against the Shia-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, accusing him of monopolising power.

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  • The al-Saud family has held on to power by placating the kingdom's religious establishment, which is dominated by descendants of the 18th century Muslim cleric Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab.

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