The biggest fallout was the Republicans suffered politically and lost considerable relative power in 1996.
The report explains that over the next two decades, the relative power of major international actors will shift markedly.
As you might imagine, measuring the relative power of such a diverse group of women is an enormous challenge.
Presidents nearly always lose relative power in mid-terms as Obama did in 2010.
But that does not obscure the fact that China's relative power is plainly growing and both the West and China itself need to adjust to this.
Most small and a goodly number of midsize states wouldn't want to see their relative power diluted, so such an amendment would have little chance of ratification.
Even if decline in relative power is inevitable, it has such economic influence and military might that it will look and feel strong for decades to come.
That effort fell short, a demonstration of the limits of the billionaire mayor's largess in Congress and the relative power of gun-rights groups such as the National Rifle Association.
Is that -- is it credible that Europe, given its declining defense budgets and declining in relative power throughout the areas of the world, can play the role the United States would like it to play?
In fact, as was noted above, the interests of the nexus not only happen to differ from those of the United States on myriad international issues, but those interests are often centered upon the goal of weakening the United States' relative power.
By the standard measure of purchasing-power parity, which reflects currencies' relative buying power, all of South-East Asia's currencies are now undervalued.
Politics and warfare are both about the relative distribution of power.
But his successor, Ali Khamenei, despite lacking both the scholarly credentials and the revolutionary aura of Khomeini, has accumulated ever more power relative to Iran's elected institutions.
Certainly there is a suspiciously close correlation between the rise in women's employment and their earning power relative to that of men on the one hand, and the rise in marital breakdown on the other.
The reality is that the aim of U.S. defense strategy in Asia is and must be to forge a new, stable security order that recognizes and appropriately accommodates the rise of Chinese power (and, it must be emphasized, the relative diminishment of Japan power) in the region.
Its citizens are growing ever more conscious of their country's rise and of a perceived relative decline in American power.
The problem though is that nobody outside of the USA is looking for caveats when they observe the relative decline of American power.
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Of course, that's yet another unfair fact of life: really stupid people seem to acquire wealth and power with relative ease because they don't have the impediment of conscience or second-guessing reflection.
Content distributors' primary concern is argued to be the protection of existing pricing structures in the honeypot nations of Western Europe and North America, which has resulted in prices in locales like Eastern Europe and South America being artificially inflated relative to the purchasing power of their population.
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The M100 also figured this one was a bargain: Hertz is pretty cheap relative to its expected earnings power, with a price-to-earnings growth ratio of just 0.73.
And "power" is a relative term, since technically there's no electricity coursing through the single-crystal panels.
Is there any attempt to rate power generation projects by relative risk to humans, species, or the environment?
The propensity of women to work in vital but lower paying fields combined with increased volunteer rates and part-time work relative to men hurts our earnings power.
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As I have written before, the political and economic reality is East Asia is that China has become the dominant local power, and its relative dominance grows by the year.
But the huge margin of his victory at the PDP primaries, with several central and northern states backing him, proves his political acumen and the relative smoothness of his assumption of power.
On the basis of purchasing-power parity (ie, relative prices) it does look undervalued.
This comes against a backdrop in which prices may already be low relative to costs and worries about possible power shortages disrupting mining operations in the key PGM-producing nation of South African, Melek added.
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