The League's 59 deputies and 26 senators wield the power of life and death over Mr Berlusconi's government.
And we have the Power Point Triangle of Death, where the speaker moves to the screen to point out some illegible word, drifts back to his computer, while mumbling something about the next slide, only to come to the third point of the triangle floating somewhere uneasily in between his screen position and his computer position.
Most Italians point instead to the overweening power of the baroni (barons), or tenured professors with the power of academic life and death.
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Jose Maria Aznar, the first fully fledged conservative to be elected to power since the death of General Franco in 1975, is an ardent centrist these days, making much of his rapport with Britain's Tony Blair.
As the arbiter of death and power, Walker is the perfect icon of the Ritualistic hero.
Faure Gnassingbe took power in 2005 following the death of their father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled Togo for 38 years.
Picasso's work was an embodiment of masculine power, filled with vitality and love of life, up till his death in 1973 at the age of 91.
Those who have written on the topic point out that this was a death that was avoidable, but none do so better than Margaret Carlson in her article for Bloomberg titled Death Shows Schools Need Power of EpiPen.
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The party, which rose to power in 2008 in part by widespread sympathy after the death of party leader Benazir Bhutto, has carried out what many called a lackluster campaign.
The storm knocked power out to thousands of homes in Texas and Oklahoma and was blamed for the death of a 21-year-old man whose SUV hit an icy patch on Interstate 70 in northwestern Kansas and overturned Monday.
When Nelson Mandela came to power in South Africa, one of the first things he did was to abolish the death penalty.
Mr Meles' death has sparked concern of instability in Ethiopia, as rival factions compete for power, analysts say.
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By mentioning the dramatic death of Gaddafi and the operation to kill Bin Laden, he suggested that US power would be used in a different way in the future.
News that Hosni Mubarak, ousted last year after 30 years as despot, was near to death after a stroke in prison may be irrelevant to the outcome of the current power struggle.
That over 25 years after her death, Rand's persona and ideas command so much attention is testimony to the abiding power of her ideas.
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