Leaving an unacceptable situation, it seems, ignites our deepest sense of power and self agency.
Even when viewed from the side, the Concept GLA conveys a sense of power and confidence.
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Their sense of power eliminates their concern of any consequences for their behavior, legal or otherwise.
That includes a refusal to relinquish control over finances a potential blow to their self-esteem and sense of power.
America's mistakes in Iraq and the pitch of Muslim-Israeli tensions have given it a largely illusory sense of power.
Previous studies on men with wide faces, says Wong, show a correlation with higher testosterone levels, aggression and a sense of power, which Wong suggests could make them effective.
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Once the posture test was over the participants received their new statuses and the researchers measured their implicit sense of power by asking them to engage in a word-completion task.
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That sense of power that has always eluded them.
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And in our own time, in the 1960s, rioting in the ghettos and among students was often motivated by nothing more than a testosterone-fueled sense of power and a desire to loot and destroy.
Or do people tend to respond more to risks whose management can be outsourced to government or industry, because this gives them the sense of power they lack when it comes to changing their own behavior?
Although previous studies suggested a mere title is enough to produce a detectable increase in an individual's sense of power, Dr Huang and Dr Galinsky found no difference in the word-completion scores of those told they would be managers and those told they would be subordinates.
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Dorothy Blades, a member of a rare all-female team of chunkers called the Dragon Ladies, (whose cannon, hard hats and gloves were all a tastefully matching shade of pink), thinks men crave the sense of power that only blasting a pumpkin into orbit in front of a large crowd can provide.
And can we shift the balance of power, so that people don't feel that their community is out of control, that they have no sense of power over the things that matter to them, and I think that's what the government is determined to address, but not by imposing a solution, but by trying to make something, develop something that actually works locally.
One of the things that went missing in the shadow of that volcanic dust was a sense of human power.
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When ordinary people of both genders were given the sense of more power in a laboratory setting, they responded by being more flirtacious.
When you convene you will be reconvening, with a sense of not wholly the power, not yet wholly the power, but a good sense of what was once in the honour of your grasp.
"It's clear that because of Savile's celebrity status, people were looking for that extra piece of evidence, behaving with an extra sense of caution because of the power he wielded, " she said.
After all, the only thing they provide that a traditional credit card does not is a false sense of unlimited spending power.
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Smart meters can help put a stop to that, because we have a better sense of where the power is going and when it is used.
Although he was a Christian and a Quaker, his plays laid out no sure means of salvation and no clear sense of a presiding power, benign or otherwise.
Out of his maudlin herding after rogues and mountebanks there comes to him a sense of vast and mysterious power which is what makes archbishops, police sergeants, the grand goblins of the Ku Klux and other such magnificoes happy.
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The fear of lack of control and dreadful consequences overwhelm any sense of the abstract economic benefits of nuclear power, and images of workers in protection suits and news of elevated radiation levels in food and water further fuel antinuclear sentiment on a global scale.
That the insurance companies and brokerages can sell this stuff at all is a testament of the power of marketing over common sense.
Clearly, Jerry Seinfeld was right: the Man of Steel's most compelling power is a super sense of humor.
This is where art comes in: art, even through something apparently simple as the appreciation of beauty, has the power to give people a sense of self worth, a dignity, an understanding of how their lives are worthwhile.
The sense of abandonment by those in power has not changed after the revolution, Mr Hussein said.
And that sense of belonging is within the power of each of us to provide.
In which case, it makes good sense to use the power of patronage to muzzle an eloquent critic.
If the Commons were to remain with its current electoral system, and if the devolved assemblies turned out not to be as powerful as is often assumed, then it might well make sense to increase the power of the Lords, adding veto and initiative powers to its current ability only to revise and delay.
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