Now the Tories are split between those who think power will come from elbowing Labour aside in the centre-ground and those who think they should eschew anything Blairite and seek to be distinctively Conservative.
This is because they think power may not be the best way for states to defend themselves against a new kind of threat: the sort that comes not from other states but networks of states and non-state actors, or from the unintended consequences of global flows of finance, technology and so on.
When I think about power I think about commitment, influence and the power to actually get something done.
When we think of power and money, we think of gaining control and influence over someone or something outside of ourselves.
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We have the power to change that and I think the power is sitting together and coming up with a plan that works for both sides.
The strong arm passage of ObamaCare may have been the wake up call that those in power think it in their power to mandate the purchase of a commercial product, but evidence of their imperial ambitions now pervades our lives.
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Think about power outages and about how they are not only costly but disruptive and even dangerous.
Although independents still have a big presence on the council, Mr Jones said: "I think their power has been broken".
And since consumers do not think about power consumption when choosing a phone or laptop, manufacturers tended to stick with copper wire.
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These groups were founded, and are largely supported by people who think government power is a dangerous thing requiring constant observation and containment.
As author and feminist activist Gloria Feldt reminds us in her must-read book No Excuses, 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, some of our disappointing numbers are entirely our fault.
Well it's doubtful that France, with its strong Gaullist traditions, will ever surrender sufficient control over budget-making to a centralised extra-territorial authority (Brussels or Berlin, depending on where you think the power would in practice reside).
In the past few years, however, the government has started to think about projecting power abroad.
And think of the power that governments would have if they controlled energy consumption.
Looking ahead on the next wave of infrastructural projects, we think that hydroelectric power looks very promising.
They think it achieved power through rigging elections and has done little with it but enrich its bosses.
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Von Hippel has for the first time given us a scale to work against when we think of the power of adaptive consumers.
His effect on me and on the rest of the audience was so powerful, that it forced me to think about the power of non-verbal communications.
Yes, think of computing power as being just like electricity.
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"If anything, I think (the power play) should have gotten us going because we were out there for a while and got the job done, " New York's Dan Girardi said.
"I think that reducing the power of the executive is long overdue, " Mr Chope said.
This was the defining issue that they think brought them to power into Congress.
"I don't think they have the power to change what is a religiously inspired definition, " Gingrich said.
To think about whether this power is at odds with the profit motive is another interesting and important thing.
Leave aside crowdsourcing and think of the predictive power of crowd opinion.
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Just think of the purchasing power Hispanics will have by 2050, when their percentage of the U.S. population will have nearly doubled to 30%!
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Mr. CUNNINGHAM: When I think of these women, I think of royalty, and I think of strength and power, and so it was very easy.
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