But Mr Putin needs to start, if only because it is hard to see how new powers for Russia's troops and law-enforcement agencies will succeed in ending the war in Chechnya, where any supposed limits on their old powers in the past were anyway ignored.
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This spat will not be the last, and the combatants in future tussles will include old offline powers.
In the view of Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, America's new policy should turn the tables on critics of the old nuclear powers.
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.
Hard won, in a fast-moving socially networked age, a reputation can be lost very quickly, and old higher education powers cannot rest on their laurels as newer institutions, with strong financial backing and dynamic leadership, are challenging the old guard.
Only by stripping the old gods of their powers, and taking control of the elements as your own, can humanity hope to survive the coming oblivion.
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This week's European summit was meant to give EU leaders an opportunity to consider relations with global powers, old and new: among them America, Russia, China, India and Turkey.
Does that mean your home is running on clean energy, while your neighbor still powers his with dirty old coal?
Unfortunately, not all of the new powers are available to the old toys.
Powers said he lost the film, but that interest in it was renewed recently when the Assassination Records Review Board saw an article Powers had written in an old Life magazine.
What Syria and Congo and, for that matter, Iraq and Jordan and Rwanda and Burundi and Uganda have in common is these are old colonial boundaries that were drawn by European powers way back when.
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And while there are problems, a long term down trend is highly unlikely in any of these markets because the alternatives are plagued with debt, getting old, and losing income to the emerging powers of the new world.
'Cherokee', the old test piece for a player's executive powers, dazzles with Brown's improvisation.
At least on paper, Sudan's year-old constitution enshrines democratic practices and a separation of powers that make it look almost like a liberal western democracy.
Powers, a compact 36-year-old with a shaved head, flips off the boat's lights.
The introduction of nuclear weapons would harm India's relations not only with its old rival Pakistan, but with many smaller countries in the region and the established nuclear powers.
The family of a 48-year-old man who died within hours of being taken into a nursing home have called for tougher powers for the industry's regulator.
There is a growing recognition that the old rich world cannot take its prosperity for granted that it will be overtaken by hungrier powers if it fails to deal with its structural problems.
As for the 69-year old Saleh himself, a combination of factors probably led him to choose this moment to sign away his powers.
Judicial administrators use their powers to call a meeting of shareholders immediately, and vote the shares they control to replace old directors with new ones.
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