• Mubarak had sought to cling to power, handing some of his authorities to Suleiman while keeping his title.

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  • Many online travel agencies have come to resemble physical ones, signing up with a GDS which provides a reservations system and other computing power while handing them a commission (ultimately paid by the airlines) on every booking.

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  • He recalls climbing telephone poles, handing power lines, tugging wires, collecting fees and repairing the electric meters.

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  • Vatican officials said a date for the conclave cannot be set until the pope leaves office, handing power over the voting process to cardinals.

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  • Alan Matthews, also of Bury South, agreed, but like Mr Audin, was against the idea of handing power to Mr Brown without a contest.

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  • But Conservative MP Bob Blackman warned there were "risks associated" with handing power over some planning decisions to the local councillors responsible for a ward.

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  • Mr Abdullah stepped down in 2009, handing power to Mr Najib who became prime minister and leader of the main coalition party, United Malays National Organisation (Umno).

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  • In office this vague idea has formalised into radical decentralisation: handing power to parents to run schools, to general practitioners to run the NHS, to local voters to pick police commissioners.

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  • Education Secretary Michael Gove said he was "protecting the frontline, handing power to teachers and introducing a pupil premium for the poorest" - but the "size of the deficit means we have had to make tough decisions".

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  • The electorate is bent on subjecting politicians to all sorts of humiliating rituals before handing them power.

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  • Hence Mr Allawi is trying his hardest to accommodate the Sadrists there without simply handing over power to them.

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  • But the White House has rejected this approach, and some Republicans are wary about handing more power to the White House.

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  • You might even consider handing over power of attorney in your absence.

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  • W. de Klerk on handing over power to the elected leader of South Africa's black majority, yet you find no fault in King Hussein's minority rule in Jordan.

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  • For Mr Renato, the biggest difficulty for any family-run business is handing over power to the next generation when the current head of the family retires.

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  • But for that to happen, difficult constitutional compromises between Bosnia's ethnic groups need to be made, with the two entities handing back power to a more centralised government.

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  • But there the parallels stop: since handing over power, General Banzer is generally reckoned to have worked, not selflessly, maybe, but diligently, in politics to re-establish and uphold democracy.

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  • The party is also committed to cracking down on crime and anti-social behaviour, getting more police officers on to the street and handing more power to local people through referendums.

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  • General Abubakar's refusal to take political jobs in the past, and his pledge this week that he will stick to the October 1st deadline for handing over power to a civilian government, suggest that he agrees with them.

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  • Next week the European Court is expected to issue a preliminary judgment stripping European Union member governments of the right to negotiate bilateral air-service agreements and handing the power instead to the European Commission, which handles other external trade issues.

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  • The price of the peaceful handing over of power by Mr de Klerk's National Party was amnesty.

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  • President Obama might be handing Mitt Romney unparalleled presidential power.

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  • Handing AMs more law-making power would "give the politicians a comfort zone that they succeeded".

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  • Canada's government has moved to reassure allies, following the arrest of a naval officer charged with handing over secrets to a foreign power.

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  • At the same time, energy giant Enron (nyse: ENE) said it would stop supplying power to industrial and commercial customers in California, handing that task over to the states' troubled utilities.

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  • At the same time, energy giant Enron (nyse: ENE - news - people) said it would stop supplying power to industrial and commercial customers in California, handing that task over to the states' troubled utilities.

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  • In recent months, he has become more of a figurehead - handing over day-to-day power to his chosen successor Thabo Mbeki, who is expected to take over as president when Mr Mandela steps down in April next year.

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  • But handing out public money to the nuclear-power industry (through production or investment tax credits, for example) is an inefficient way for governments to discourage global warming.

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  • "Our power was handed to us by the people, today we are handing it back to them, " Mr Borisov said.

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