• Unfortunately these arguments rarely acknowledge the need to contextualize the cost of administering these subsidies in the current regime of centralized government-dominated power generation and transmission.

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  • Tutsis, who make up 14% of the population but have traditionally dominated power, will have 40% of seats in the national assembly, compared to 60% for Hutus.

    BBC: Ballots were colour-coded, black for No, white for Yes

  • While the 1980s and early '90s were dominated by power pieces from luxury brands such as Boucheron, today's looks are more individualistic.

    WSJ: Off the Cuff Remarkable

  • As the 39th U.S. president, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords and the Panama Canal treaties, but his last year in power was dominated by the Iran hostage crisis.

    CNN: Quest for peace

  • At a minimum, both seemed to agree, a new local-government law must be passed so as to give municipalities (including Albanian-dominated ones) the power to raise and spend money freely.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • The SDLP, instrumental in encouraging republicans to join the peace process, has been partly sidelined as the impasse between Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionists over guns and sharing power has dominated the process for more than two years.

    BBC: SDLP leader John Hume

  • Coal has dominated the U.S. power industry for so long because it's a cheap and abundant domestic resource.

    MSN: Coal producers find themselves in a hard place

  • The two political heavyweights have been embroiled in a power struggle that has dominated Malawian headlines in recent years.

    CNN: Malawi's Mutharika wins second term

  • Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.

    CNN: Beatles and Bond: Half a century on, can we now let them be?

  • All of which points to a different future for a power provider whose fleet is dominated by fossil fuels.

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  • At a recent Wharton San Francisco event with the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley tech and business forum, whether technology will power the next job boom dominated conversation, particularly focusing on the growing gap between the number of college graduates and the number of jobs available.

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  • The market as a whole is dominated by a relatively small number of big power companies and investment banks, raising worries about asymmetry of information.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • With only three weeks to go before the polls, the formerly unthinkable - a return to power by the media magnate who has dominated Italian politics for the past two decades - has now become possible, political observers are saying.

    BBC: Silvio Berlusconi makes Italy property tax pledge

  • During the Bush years, the so-called neoconservative camp believed it had formulated the means of convincing an American electorate dominated by the leftist media to support the projection of American power in the Islamic world.

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  • The al-Saud family has held on to power by placating the kingdom's religious establishment, which is dominated by descendants of the 18th century Muslim cleric Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab.

    CNN: Do We Still Need the Saudis?

  • For Democrats in the state, the ultimate humiliation came when the last great Democratic power-broker, the former lieutenant-governor Bob Bullock, who had dominated Texas politics for four decades, threw his support behind Mr Bush.

    ECONOMIST: Democrats in Texas

  • The Rangers dominated in shots in the first period, but had nothing to show for it despite three power plays that generated five shots.

    WSJ: Stepan's power-play goal lifts Rangers over Caps

  • "Men's loss of power and control over women has made professional women particularly vulnerable, especially in male-dominated work environments and in public spaces, " writes Rasna Wahra for the Daily Nation.

    WSJ: India Needs a Sexual Revolution

  • Under their new(ish) chairman, Bill Cash, this committee has repeatedly used its power to force debates on European issues onto the floor of the House - the debates may be dominated by the usual Eurosceptic suspects, but at least this House of Commons is being asked to take notice of issues that once tended to be waved through.

    BBC: A guide to highlights coming up in Parliament

  • Mr Chavez now has the power as well as the authority to cajole Venezuelans into accepting that their oil- fuelled, state-dominated economy has failed them.

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