To deny ourselves access to any of our powers too often leaves us without any power at all.
We would agree that saving Mark's life is vital, indeed a moral imperative if it is within our powers to do so.
"As the Welsh government, we are taking clear actions to address some of these difficulties and are doing all we can within our powers to help people back into jobs or training, " she said.
The CQC told the BBC that "where people are at immediate risk we can use our urgent powers".
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And as soon as Cyberdyne's lovely assistant Fumi turned the dial down, our superhuman powers were instantly taken away.
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"We will return in the near future and if we find that they are not making the required progress we will consider further how to use our legal powers to protect the patients, " he added.
Ofgem also said it had "received information" and added that it would "consider carefully any evidence of market abuse that is brought to our attention as well as scope for action under all our other powers".
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In their announcement, the Welsh Government (are you getting used to dropping that 'Assembly'?) say "his expertise will prove invaluable as we use our enhanced legal powers to deliver on our commitments for the people of Wales".
Score one for our predictive powers.
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He said other priorities for the force include "attending crimes in person, maximising police visibility, making full use of new technology, using all our legal powers to make life harder for criminals and recognising the needs of businesses and rural communities as well as 'normal' day-to-day policing".
To meet these goals, we need to rebuild the infrastructure that powers our industries.
The system of energy that powers our economy also undermines our security and endangers our planet.
Both the Democrats and Republicans have run roughshod over our separation of powers.
Then I remembered that WordPress.org powers our online publishing platform.
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We should make a centerpiece of national energy policy that natural gas should be the principal fuel, perhaps the only fuel besides electricity that powers our vehicles.
That coal- and oil-fired electricity powers our computers, enables the transmission of data between networks and, increasingly supplies the energy to servers that store and process an ever growing mountain of information.
Oil powers our cars, trucks, planes and trains.
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To be clear, I believe such authority is inherent in the President's powers under our Constitution.
Under our founding document, powers were divided at the center into three branches of government and were diffused again among states and municipalities.
We had a plethora of powers at our fingertips, all of which could have provided meaningful ways to interact with the world around us outside of combat.
What do you make of the snapshot, one that suggests our appetite for giving the Assembly more powers is there and growing, but that when it comes to using the powers the government already has to shape some of our public services, you seem to find their plans pretty unpalatable.
Legislating in our diverse, contentious country, with our system of separation of powers, has never been, and will never be, easy.
If the Home Office is serious about this issue then the surveillance camera commissioner needs proper powers to protect our privacy.
And those are deliberations that need to be privileged and protected because of the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution.
This is just why our Founding Fathers separated the powers of government -- if one branch faltered, another could temporarily step into the breach.
With Obamacare adding staff and hundreds of millions to the budget of the IRS, the new and intrusive powers granted to our nation's revenue collection service were worrisome enough.
Foreign powers establish beachheads in our hemisphere or withdraw from them.
So far, these efforts have perpetuated or even exacerbated the problem, because almost all of them simply reinforce our beliefs about the magical disinhibiting powers of alcohol.
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