In China, collecting on a judgment can be very difficult and once the court issues its decision, it does not have a lot of power to aid in collection.
While these kinds of batteries are too ungainly to power a hearing aid or a cellphone, they could be made to store lots of electricity.
Gen Douglas Fraser, head of US Southern Command, insisted US forces were "doing everything in our power to speed aid to Haiti as fast as humanly possible".
The US military has defended its handling of the rescue operation at the airport, saying it was doing "everything in our power to speed aid to Haiti as fast as humanly possible".
Aid and power supplies remained patchy in the northern region of Japan stricken by an earthquake and tsunami.
Both the United States and the EU, Zimbabwe's biggest donors, have said they will not resume aid until a power-sharing government is set up.
Harun's present role gives him power over how and whether aid agencies can deliver food, medicine and shelter to victims of chronic violence and deprivation in Darfur.
To its south, officials say, Europe has leveraged its domestic buying power, trade policy and aid to offer help to post-Arab Spring countries like Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt.
Geithner will have extraordinary power to determine which firms receive aid and which do not.
Neither side will unleash a war with the other nor provide military aid to any third power that attacks the other state.
And rather than giving more direct aid or broad taxing power to local governments, state legislators have been giving them the ability to levy the same sort of narrow taxes.
This not only can aid farming but also feed power to nearby villages.
America and France, the former colonial power, immediately froze non-humanitarian aid.
The EU, which emerged from the ashes of a world war that left Europe shattered, humiliated and sidelined, is now the world's biggest economic power, exporter, trading bloc, aid donor and foreign investor.
Mr. Pierini blames EU treaty law for giving the U.K., France and Germany the power to stifle a common foreign policy and says the separation of aid and humanitarian assistance from the EU's diplomatic decision-making has undermined some of the soft power it can otherwise project.
Using some of that processing power on security and other specialized functions should aid hardware buyers, he said.
There are also suspicions that Mr Suzuki may have interfered in an aid project to build a hydroelectric power station in Kenya.
On June 15th, Britain, Sierra Leone's former colonial power and still its main source of foreign aid, agreed to let the former Liberian president, if convicted, serve his prison sentence in the United Kingdom, thereby removing the main obstacle blocking his transfer and trial.
The business aviation community banded together to assist, providing supplies and aid areas left hard to reach by power and road outages.
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"By giving to the insurgents the power to veto an agreement, they effectively said, 'Unless you two reach an agreement on the sharing of power, we're not going to provide aid and assistance, '" Kerry said.
There has been a bias towards centre-left organisations, with a particular emphasis on those promoting policies that are unpopular with the public, such as increasing foreign aid, restricting lifestyle freedoms and further centralising power within EU institutions.
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The government would, he said, do everything in its power to avoid having to ask its European partners for more aid.
The UK has said the immediate focus of international assistance should be on providing urgent medical and humanitarian aid as well as diplomatic support as the NTC assumes power.
On at least two occasions last summer, the Bonneville Power Administration - the federal agency responsible for marketing power from dams in the Pacific Northwest - used water meant to aid migrating juvenile salmon to supply California with hydroelctricity.
Mr Saleh stood accused of amassing power and wealth for his immediate family, nimbly wielding oil revenues and foreign aid to perpetuate his 33-year-long hold on the state.
Other South Koreans were helping to build a nuclear power plant in the North and unloading fertiliser that had been shipped from the South as aid.
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The batteries themselves make use of the same zinc air technology used in hearing aid batteries, and apparently have the highest energy density of any portable consumer power solution, which translates to about three times the runtime of a similarly sized alkaline or lithium ion battery.
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In some regions power has consequently shifted back towards local communities, potentially making them more likely to welcome foreign aid.
Until now western diplomats and aid agencies have supported her and she has skilfully used that support to strengthen her power base yet further.
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