Last week, Garber was politic about its effect on MLS's lower-league relationships, but the move certainly has a side effect of broadening the power base of a soccer pyramid that has MLS, and its controlled model, at its apex.
What looks like a peaceful, rustic refuge in upstate New York turns out to have been the power base of a small cult, overseen by the charismatic Patrick (John Hawkes), which lured Martha and other errant young souls into its nefarious ways.
With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.
But in a country with an unreliable power supply and a base of almost no electric vehicles, that goal may be elusive.
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And it would open up a rival power base to that of the prime minister, something a Westminster system is not designed to cope with.
Can Ms Gilowska, who lacks a power base of her own, fight off spending ministries?
Putting aside the very real limits to the growth of wind power, the installed base of renewables would have to grow at a compound rate of more than 12% a year to reach 20% of the national electricity mix within a decade.
Connectivity comes via Gigabit Ethernet and a WiFi dongle roughly the size of a wireless mouse receiver protruding from its base, and a 5V socket provides Transporter with power.
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Before 1998, the Republican Governors had never coalesced as a power base, partly because there had never been such a critical mass, 32 of them in all.
The British and French government, as the protectors of the Arab state, shall agree that they will not themselves acquire and will not consent to a third power acquiring territorial possessions in the Arabian peninsula, nor consent to a third power installing a naval base either on the east coast, or on the islands, of the red sea.
They organize the grassroots political base through a patronage system to maximize the raw power of their Democrat political cause.
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While a leveled up creature can be more than a match for a higher ranked card, the base power level of the higher ranks and rarity make them highly sought after.
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It doesn't forget to remind that Mr Singh is an "unelected" prime minister who "lacks a political base of his own, " and that political power is held by Mrs Gandhi who holds no cabinet position.
These unions, representing public-sector workers, are a key part of Mr Sweeney's power base.
After forming an opposition party, the National Movement, he was elected head of Tbilisi city council where he built up a power base.
But politically, the move would take the number of subcontinental teams to four and further strengthen a power base that has for some time been shifting eastwards.
Many foreign companies looking to set up shop in Asia want a base that allows them access to all of Asia's power economies without overreliance on any of them, and Singapore fits the bill.
It is a source of base load, low-carbon and largely fixed-cost power for many utilities.
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Some local governments have sought to stretch their eminent domain power as a means of augmenting revenue by expanding their tax base.
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Mr Howard is now painting Mr Rudd as a prisoner of the trade unions, Labor's traditional power base, in an era when only one-fifth of Australian workers belong to unions, and even fewer in the private sector.
There is a slight concern that the Falcons do not have as large or rabid of a fan base to support as large of an increase in prices as those with power in the secondary market may enjoy.
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They told him what he wanted to hear, so that he would retreat from a comfortable exile in London (and please, sign me up anyday for that kind of exile) to plunge back into the tumult of Pakistani electoral politics, wrongly thinking that he still had a power base there.
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Such a grid is being tested at the army's model forward operating base (FOB) in Fort Irwin, California, along with prototypes of a mobile, hybrid power station that combines solar panels and wind turbines with a conventional generator.
The debate was won hands down by McConnell and Zittrain mostly because they stuck to the topic while the Schneier-Rotenberg team attempted to paint a picture of a power and money grab on the part of the defense-industrial base.
But they did tell is that a player like Ichiro Suzuki, he of many base hits and high batting averages but no power and few walks, is overrated.
So GE is determined to come out with a battery system that will store energy, but the investment costs are enormous as it needs to develop a massive storage system for a huge global customer base, says Wlliam Schmitz, president and CEO of WindTamer (WNDT), a maker of wind power generators utilizing proprietary technology for elecrtric generation and energy management.
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Critics of the EPA's green power rankings argue that the agency should base criteria on the percentage of green power purchased, not the total amount of renewable-energy credits a school buys.
Apple also provides a setting in the Airport Extreme software that let us diminish the base station's transmitting power should we want to restrict the range of transmission to, say, a conference room for security reasons.
Babcock builds smaller nuclear units of 100 megawatts, which can also be aggregated together to supply as much power as a base-load nuclear generator, or 1, 000 megawatts.
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Although a powerful military could not be sustained over the long haul without a prosperous economic base, it has been unusual, until recently in the case of China, to describe a country's power in terms of its economic output or its dominance of key industrial or trade sectors.
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