Just as enforcing personal morality seems to be a unifying principle behind many conservative appeals for government interventionism, liberals seem to be driven by a desire to reverse perceived power imbalances.
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Its citizens are growing ever more conscious of their country's rise and of a perceived relative decline in American power.
They have pulled off a cool trick that is critical to pushing past long-perceived limits to how much computing power can be packed into a microchip.
Mayors have power because they are perceived to be powerful.
The basis for sovereign immunity is clear: Governments need to know that other countries' governments will not allow their citizens to lodge lawsuits in their home courts for any perceived wrong committed by the foreign power.
The old language of journalism defines a moment in history, one defined by technology and social change that bestowed upon reporters and editors the power (often arrogantly perceived as authority) to be the sole collectors and decision-makers of worthy news.
Perceived knowledge was the source of actual power.
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That led the relay, a kind of sensing device, to incorrectly conclude there was an electrical problem and tell a nearby electrical switch to isolate the perceived problem, reducing the flow of power to the Superdome during the game's third quarter.
The majority of usable reservoirs are located in remote, scenic wilderness areas where construction of plants, access roads, power lines and other infrastructure is perceived as an unwelcome intrusion on nature.
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Although these made perfect strategic sense, the business unit leaders perceived the shifts as a potential loss of autonomy, power, and control.
As Arnold Kling has written, the primacy of power is assumed while the idea that power should be decentralized and rolled back is perceived as the truly fringe-y idea.
By changing the sequence of two scenes, Cassidy gave the film an added power -- which made all the difference to how his performance was perceived, Holbrook says.
Egypt's television, Internet and streets buzzed late Thursday with emotions that ran between familiar poles from outrage at what many saw as a power play by increasingly defiant former regime members, to relief at a perceived setback to powerful Islamists.
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But to tell the truth, those limits are not apparent to us, either because the power to require the entry into commerce is symmetrical with the power to prohibit or condition commercial behavior, or because we have not yet perceived a qualitative limitation.
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Again, the high-status participants were perceived as much more empathic and attentive toward the laid off workers than were the control group and the high-power managers.
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