Today these two firms are one, which gets its wool from Australia and its power from the national grid, and its boss chafes at the restrictions a narrow valley places on floor space in his factory.
China, like Russia, knows that the only power limiting its national plans is the U.S., so China will seek to limit American influence when and where it can.
No dimension of national power stands on its own.
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He says the present government will see through the overhaul of the industry, despite its penchant for national champions and its distaste for foreign profiteers, because it fears power cuts and the popular ire they might spark.
"SpareOne has become a game-changing preparedness device since its launch, gaining national notoriety for its innovation and ability to keep lines of communication open when power is completely unavailable or inaccessible, " said Alan Cymberknoh, SpareOne Project Director at XPAL Power.
National Power has secured 90% of its coal from 20 different British companies.
In his defence, Alan Milburn, the health secretary, argued last week that Labour's strategy has been to establish national standards in its first term, before devolving power in its second.
For Congress, a loss in Gujarat could potentially undermine its continuing struggle to hold on to power at the national level.
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Faced with the harsh reality of student debt, the NYPIRG and New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC) came together to power the National College Finance Center and its national public service campaign.
In its defence, the EBA had no power to second-guess national supervisors.
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America's state governors launched a bipartisan effort to remove a provision in a congressional bill that would give the presidency more power in domestic crises over the National Guard , which traces its history back to the colonial militias.
The military element of national power has arguably been the dominant factor by which a nation assesses its relative strength among the community of nations.
Its products are used in 70 countries and used to protect national borders, military bases, power plants, pipelines, prisons and airports.
Unquestionably the dominant actor on the continent due to its comparative economic strength, military power, and rich natural resources, the ruling African National Congress has been steadily leading the country - and hence the rest of Africa - away from a healthy relationship with the United States and toward ideologies and nations opposed to American interests.
In its 62-page report, the Commonwealth-backed Commission of National Inquiry described the transfer of power as "legal and constitutional".
Its products are used in 70 countries to protect national borders, airports, correctional facilities and nuclear power plants from terrorism and theft.
As Mr. Kan rose to power, he came to embrace the national consensus that Japan should ramp up its use of nuclear energy.
If the legislation successfully makes its way through Congress, the DHS will be in charge of national Internet security standards with the power to federally mandate cyber security performance requirements for Internet infrastructure.
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Correspondents say that India urgently needs a huge increase in power production, as hundreds of millions of its people are not even connected to the national grid.
As the African National Congress was grappling with its transformation from a left-leaning liberation organization to a party in power, Motsepe was developing his own convictions as a free market capitalist.
Afghanistan's national power company says it will cut the electricity supply to the main prison unless it pays its overdue bills in the next few weeks.
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Before the fall of apartheid, its defense industry was mainly focused on battling the wars that kept the African National Congress (ANC) out of power.
But at almost the same time Mr Milosevic, who rose to power in the late 1980s by rousing Serbian national feeling over Kosovo, returned to Pristina, its capital, to do so again.
Only America's National Security Agency is thought to have the raw computing power required to unscramble Skype packets, and its intelligence-gathering efforts are far removed from day-to-day law enforcement and the collection of evidence for prosecutions.
It also meant that, when the National Space Council to its credit resuscitated the program, the NASP was "behind the power curve:" the best that could be done was to restore part of its earlier funding, to oblige the Defense Department to reassume its share of the management responsibility and to stretch out the development schedule.
States have the power to decide how their electoral votes get allocated, the National Conference of State Legislatures noted on its website.
National Grid, which took over storm preparations from the Long Island Power Authority after LIPA was lambasted for its Sandy problems, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
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