"Using my constitutional powers, I introduce a state of emergency in the provinces of Cajamarca, Celendin, Hualgayoc and Contumaza, " President Humala said.
As the executive director of an organization rocketed into existence 20 years ago because of a piece of media (the filming by a bystander of the beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles police department), I firmly believe in the accelerating powers of visual media as applied to social progress.
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So I will use all the powers of this office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this.
Generally Sinn Fein has been keen to take powers away from the secretary of state, but I imagine republicans would be sceptical over devolving decisions on a border poll.
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Turkey even appears to have colluded with the Russian patriarch, Kirill, to limit the powers of the Greek Orthodox patriarch in Istanbul, Bartholomew I, usually seen as first among equals in the Orthodox hierarchy.
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But I'm wondering what kind of powers of investigation British intelligence has that might be useful now.
In order to claim powers of uncanny prophesy, for at least a while, I think I owe it to the law of averages to predict it here in black and white, so that I can get levelled.
But I have left out one of the other regional powers: the United States.
For the story, I accompanied New York Department of Conservation officers Jamie Powers and Kevin Thomas on a sting operation in Manhattan.
"I'm proud we have entered the ranks of satellite powers, " office worker Hyun Day-sun said.
And I think the level of engagement, really, with the emerging powers in this region is unprecedented.
"I think this is a very important decision about the separation of powers, " said Carl Tobias, a constitutional law professor at Virginia's University of Richmond.
That quibble aside - and it is an important quibble - I welcome the report as an excellent exposition of the role, powers and functions of the second chamber and (elections apart) and as the basis for ensuring a transition to a second chamber that will be better than any of the alternatives on offer.
But I also said that it depends on what day I am asked, because most my predictive powers swing with the unpredictable nature of current events.
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One of the funniest -- yet most perceptive and provocative -- news-conference questions I've ever been aware of was asked in the 1970s by Ron Powers, who was then the brilliant young television critic of the Chicago Sun-Times.
I'd been out of commission for over a month while I was recovering in the hospital from having strained my powers so much.
In World War I the Allied strategy was to engage and defeat the center of gravity of the Central Powers, the German field army.
"I urge her to clarify whether she will be as supportive of the devolution of the powers to vary Corporation Tax to Northern Ireland as Owen Paterson was, " he added.
"I think it's a symptom of the general dissatisfaction with President Ahmadinejad that his powers and movement are being curtailed by the various power centers in Iran, " said Nader, an expert on Iranian politics at the RAND Corp.
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It was also as a result from the loss of legitimate authority, as in Iran of the Shah, of those in powers confronted by populist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan.
Like Chuck, I would rather have the world powers behind a united effort to stop and reverse the nuclear ambitions of Iran's leadership.
But as Wilson learned from the outbreak of World War I, the struggle for colonies had precipitated a savage and destructive war between the imperial powers themselves.
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