Usually we focus on what separates us, and I hope that a story like The Dressmaker and a competition like this one will remind people of the power of the human spirit, of the resilience and determination to go against the obstacles and defeat the odds.
On the face of it, this configuration of people and power on both sides of the fence spells doom.
It was definitely an interesting time to be discussing all forms of energy, especially as hundreds of thousands of people were without power because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
By drawing stick figures Dr Lee can bring up a graph showing the spread of the population covered by the study, and then by sketching a battery alongside it she can bring up another chart illustrating how specific groups of people use different amounts of power.
Eight Independent Community and Health Concern candidates will be doing their best to keep alive the flame of people power which famously flared eight years ago at Wyre Forest, when opposition to the downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital led to the election of the Independent MP Richard Taylor and swept the party to control of the district council there.
It signals a return of "people power, " which was the hallmark of Mr. Aquino's mother, Corazon Aquino, who succeeded the Marcos regime as president in 1986.
Federal officials have made a priority of trying to restore power to the millions of people still in the dark, by promising to fully reimburse all costs of power restoration and coordinating with private energy companies such as New York's Consolidated Edison Inc.
It is telling that the leaders of these governments fear the aspirations of their own people more than the power of any other nation.
Cherwenka, the Huffington Post blogger, believes Kutcher may be one of the first people to leverage the power of online social networking for widespread social good.
No administration that claims to represent the moral tone of a nation can have such people in any position of power.
Snow last Friday and Saturday disrupted travel and left thousands of people without power.
Others compared Bolivia's upheavals to recent examples of people power from Ukraine to Kirgizstan.
Shameful though it may be, official stonewalling has had a positive effect: a burst of people power.
There had been additional benefits to the mini-grids giving people ownership of their power, Dr Karmacharya pointed out.
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Mr. SHAPIRO: And he's also totally non-intimidated by the political process and by people in positions of power.
Meanwhile, the blue gantries, now a symbol of people power, still merrily light up the Gauteng night sky.
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Bill Bien , VP sales and marketing of People Power comes on stage to show what it does.
This kind of people power is infinitely more democratic than Clinton's Soviet-style approach.
Yet it is her slight, bespectacled embodiment of People Power--at once fragile and invincible--that defines her hold on history.
Researchers investigated whether people in positions of power that hold high standards for others actually live up to those standards themselves.
It may also explain why people in positions of power sometimes indulge in highly questionable behaviors, such as tweeting inappropriate messages or pictures of themselves.
Still, the solution is not repression in the name of strong, solid government, especially since in these days of People Power, no hated regime can really be stable for keeps.
That is a safeguard that Estrada's opponents, led by the leaders of People Power - former president Corazon Aquino and Catholic leader Cardinal Jaime Sin - want to preserve at all costs.
Rothschild Boulevard, a pleasant, leafy thoroughfare that meanders through Tel Aviv, with offices and commodious flats on either side, has oddly become a colourful encampment, seething with talk of people-power and social revolution.
Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam had been creating "Let's Love" -- the latest in a series of works on gender politics -- when the politics of people power brought her work to a halt as she immersed herself in the demonstrations.
"People get into such difficulties with City institutions - they're laced with people with degrees of power, stuck in these huge companies, who can really mess your life up if they decide you're a stupid poof and want to put the boot in, " he says.
It contains former regime loyalists who held positions of power under Saddam Hussein people who still harbor dreams of returning to power.
I'm not even sure what "hallelujah" means, but the word just feels right after witnessing what is at the very least an awakening of the power of the people.
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