Because of the financial power of the City--seen time and time again during the current economic crisis--the government of the U.K. seems quite unable to challenge it, and the transactions the City wants to execute.
Plans to allow them to vote in presidential elections back home have circulated in the corridors of power in Mexico City for the best part of 20 years.
We all know that Capitalism is the motive power energizing the luminescence of the Shining city upon the hill.
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The gentleman banker's renaissance reflects a broader shift in the balance of power on Wall Street and in the City of London, principally at the expense of the traders.
And we showed in very graphic terms how the water would top the levees and inundate the city, the way in which the pumps would fail because of the loss of power, and how the inundation would stay in the city because of its geography and geology.
It has been estimated that a single bolt of lightning has enough electrical energy to power the city of Los Angeles for a day.
That amounts to enough electricity to power the city of Seattle or about 5 percent of the region's energy supply.
He noted that many people in the eastern part of the country feel marginalized after decades of underrepresentation and neglect during the rule of strongman Moammar Gadhafi, whose power base was centered in the capital city of Tripoli.
AEM, the power supplier for the city of Milan, took over Edison, the second-biggest Italian energy firm.
Six people were reportedly injured by midnight here, and the power was out in parts of the city.
There is no indication that the balance of power has shifted in Mexico City to mirror the dynamic seen in other parts of the country.
The price of electric power in New York City could double over the next three years as the result of a recent ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
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As the City of New York struggled to deal with the effects of hurricane Sandy Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed schools for a third day and declined to offer a solid timetable for the resumption of power or rail service to the city, which was hard hit by the storm on Monday night.
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New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo called for a radical redesign of the electric utility system in the wake of the post-Sandy electric power outages that kept New York City residents eating dinner by candlelight for the better part of a week in many places.
The company, for example, was recently engaged to build power substations for the city of Shanghai's light rail system.
Alliance holds the balance of power on Belfast City Council, and could have voted down the original motion to remove the flag on all days.
Certainly, I think the current economic climate will drastically reduce the spending power of clubs in the Premier League with the exception perhaps of Manchester City.
The manager will have sweeping power to set the financial direction of the city.
It has to be said that the mayor of Ushuaia's action, which would have cost his city dearly as the spending power of some 3, 000 cruise passengers on the two ships was not unleashed, has been taken phlegmatically by the Adonia's passengers.
To power the thrusters and drilling equipment, the ship generates 37 megawatts of power, enough for a city of 35, 000.
Diesel generators have a history of failure in the clutch of a crisis, including the July 1999 power outage in New York City and the massive power outages in the eastern United States in August 2003.
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Explaining the rise of Barcelona as a naval power to rival Italian city-states like Pisa and Genoa, he notes the balanced diet of Catalan sailors: more biscuit and cheese than the Venetians, less wine than the Neapolitans, but plenty of garlic, onions and spices to make hard biscuits more palatable.
My new life in the power city of Beijing consisted in taking lessons from Professor Angry, practicing, and going to elementary school.
Within hours of the Northern Alliance taking Kabul, this former governor of Kandahar and leading Pashtun figure led a force of men - numbers reported ranged from 200 to 1, 000 - across the border from the Pakistani city of Quetta towards the city he ruled before the Taleban took power in 1994.
Real estate mogul Jerry Speyer is the ultimate New York City power player, but much of the firm's recent activity is in China, Brazil and Europe.
Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties, " a New York City drama concerning the power of familial bonds, earned three nominations, including ones for Judith Light, scenic design and best play.
Others have been casting doubts on the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) - the largest and most organised political party of the city which is a partner in power both at the provincial and central levels but whose relations with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have soured over the past couple of months.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is determined to pull the plug on the dinosaur-aged Indian Point nuclear power plant located on the northern outskirts of New York City in Buchanan, NY and a new study says the sky will fall if he does.
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However, the Alliance party, which holds the balance of power within Belfast City Hall, has offered a compromise.
This plant will produce enough power to serve the entire city of Arcadia.
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