All of the data is processed through an algorithm that creates our power ranking.
Our first-ever power ranking weighs political connections, business scope, media coverage, philanthropy and net worth.
To come up with our power ranking we input earnings, press mentions, web hits, cover stories, TV mentions and social media following numbers into an algorithm that creates the ranking.
You might imagine that it would be easier to call for a return to military strength and national greatness in the United States -- a superpower -- than in the United Kingdom -- a middle ranking power.
For most people, most of the time, their country's ranking in terms of military power is not a big issue.
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Since the Sharifs came to power last year, Shahbaz points out, Pakistan's ranking in the leading survey of international corruption has dropped from second place to 15th.
She will be the highest-ranking visitor from the United States since the Burmese armed forces seized power in 1962.
Earlier in the day, a high-ranking official said the operation had been hampered at times by limited electrical power south of 36th Street in Manhattan.
When Mr. Zelaya was still in power, the Honduran press reported that his foreign minister Patricia Rodas met with high-ranking Iranian officials in Mexico City.
The darker the blue the higher the fraction of foreign Facebook connections with the imperial power in question. (Facebook has not shared the underlying percentage data, just the ranking.) These closely correspond to countries or territories which were, whether wholly or in part, at one point under British, French, Spanish or Portuguese rule, as seen in the bottom set of maps.
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In 2006, Khatami visited the United States, becoming the highest-ranking Iranian to visit the country since the 1979 revolution that brought the Islamic government to power.
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