There is a general perception of American decline as new powers emerge in the world competition.
This competition between the states holds out the prospect of remaking the economic and political map of America, as new economic state powers pursuing pro-growth policies arise, replacing the over-the-hill, declining, economic state powers pursuing the blind alleys of sterile, defunct, redistribution policies of the past.
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Which is why, as Britain contemplates new emergency powers, it needs to build in safeguards against the constant danger of mistakes and the police's tendency to make full use of their powers.
Mr Prodi now wants to pile on more topics, such as his plan to win new powers for the parliament.
In addition, new nuclear powers such as North Korea and Pakistan were emerging.
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"Of course there should be a referendum if we as a country were to surrender new powers to the European Union, " he said.
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She was speaking as the Bundestag began debating the new powers that will be given to the EFSF, the EU's main rescue fund.
However, in the 1930s, with the rise of new regional powers such as Japan and the decline of the British Navy as a bulwark against threats to the United States, it became necessary for defense planners to consider the possibility of confronting threats in two theaters simultaneously.
But nations may have to accommodate new political powers, just as the Catholic Church had to accommodate the advent of nations.
The Scotland Bill, presently before Westminster, transfers new powers to Holyrood such as control over national speed limits and air weapons.
This has not only brought about a sweeping anti-terrorism bill, called the Patriot Act, which gives law enforcers new surveillance powers, such as monitoring Internet traffic without a court order.
Yet, try as he may, Mr Mugabe cannot dismiss the new pressure on him merely as the vengeful work of former colonial powers or the machinations of western capitalists.
Yet the rise of new economic powers always brings problems as well as opportunities for incumbents.
They include new tax powers for Holyrood, as well as powers over drink-driving, speed limits and airguns.
He originated the project and, as a senator from New York, used the powers of his office to push for it relentlessly, year after year.
Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, for many Arabs there was a sense that supernatural powers were at work as the new Jewish state rose from the ruins of Jerusalem.
The consumer bureau, created by the 2010 financial overhaul law known as the Dodd-Frank Act, gained new powers to reach deep into the most mundane decisions of money-transfer agents, mortgage bankers, auto lenders and virtually anyone else who provides financial products and services.
Cutting taxes for the rich and then invoking radical new powers is not the same thing as limiting government.
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Margaret Mitchell characterised herself as the arch-Unionist, opposed to the new tax powers for Holyrood in the Scotland Bill.
Some liberal political activists are advocating using Washington's new powers to pursue other agendas, such as forcing tighter emissions curbs or mandating costly health insurance coverage.
Even if a battle-weary Republican House manages by some miracle to pass pro-growth reforms on Social Security or estate taxes, liberal Republican senators such as Chafee and Maine's Olympia Snowe will have new powers to block them.
His scheme, known as 'rolling devolution', envisaged devolving powers gradually to a new legislature.
However, he thinks that his new powers allowing dawn raids on suspected cartels as well as fines will make a big difference.
Indeed a nationalist MP born on Belfast's Falls Road argued on Monday that any debate on a new EU treaty should be viewed as an opportunity to claw back powers from Brussels.
For Mr Johnson, the reality that his powers are fewer and pockets not quite as deep as the New York mayor could also help bring more focus to the job at hand.
The mixing of genres is successfully achieved here, as players will find themselves leveling up heroes, building structures to gain new powers and generate resources, and spending time surveying the city for assorted forms of tappable currency.
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When Ms Davidson launched her successful campaign for the Scottish Conservative leadership in 2011, the Glasgow MSP described proposals on new Holyrood financial powers - which have since been agreed - as "a line in the sand", and strongly opposed calls for full fiscal autonomy.
The two World Wars saw the fall of old imperial powers and the rise of new nation states, usually now as republics, with new currencies.
What are we to make of this idea that the Obama presidency is a new era, in which the great powers will no longer behave as they have for centuries?
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