• "Several tree limbs were down across the property and power was lost for nearly 30 minutes, " it said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • One spouse could be given special powers, such as a power to withdraw a fixed amount of trust property each year or a power to appoint trust property (in equal or unequal shares) among your descendants.

    FORBES: Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts--Use Your Gift Tax Exemption Without Giving It All Away

  • Around the New York metropolitan area, many victims of Superstorm Sandy were mercifully spared another round of flooding, property damage and power failures.

    NPR: The Big Dig-Out: New England, NY Slammed With Snow

  • The most controversial aspect of the new law is the creation of a government committee on intellectual property with the power to close suspect websites pending the outcome of any court appeal.

    ECONOMIST: A haven for digital pirates at last gets tougher

  • When we depute to local police departments the power to shoot an aggressor against the life or property of another, that police power derives entirely from the universal, unalienable right of every person to defend his or her rights.

    FORBES: Gun Control: 10 Observations On A Controversial Subject

  • Their power over property prices has even led to some residents campaigning to have their postcode changed.

    BBC: Modern postcodes are 50 years old

  • Today Tomas is chairman of the family's listed holding company, Alsons, named reportedly for Alcantra and sons, with interests in power, property and distribution.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The storm, of course, comes on the heels of Hurricane Sandy, which swept through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States, leaving hundreds dead, and thousands without power or property.

    CNN: More voices needed in climate debate

  • The manner in which human beings tussle with one another over power, property and prestige is not much different in adulthood than it is in middle school and the process steps are the same even when the dispute is on an entirely different scale.

    FORBES: The Anti-Bullying Secret Weapon Arrives Just in Time for School

  • Montgomery County Sheriff's spokeswoman Brandy Wingfield said there was property damage, including downed power lines, in the area.

    NPR: Tornadoes Touch Down In Oklahoma And Arkansas

  • Instead, with distributed generation, individuals or businesses generate their own power on their property and use it themselves or sell it back to the grid.

    FORBES: Distributed Generation: Key Part of Our Energy Future - Phil Harris

  • The problem is, in the hottest real estate markets, there seems to be an utter disconnect between property value and the buying power of a dollar.

    FORBES: How Much Home $1 Million Buys

  • His proposal has recently run into some political snags, but he plans to push ahead with it, offering the lawyers higher commissions for making faster collections and giving them the power to seize property, freeze bank accounts and halt delivery of supplies to businesses.

    ECONOMIST: Taxmen and sinners

  • Back in the heyday of using trusts for shifting income, if a trust contained one of those powers, like the power of the grantor to withdraw property from the trust and replace if with property of equal value, someone who thought the trust was being used to shift income, would consider that power to be a defect.

    FORBES: Don't Freak Out If You Hear Your Trust Is Defective

  • The eco-friendly pair renovated much of the home, updating the property with green amenities like solar power.

    FORBES: Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds List Shared Home

  • Property, energy, oil, power stations, highways, retail, even telecom are doing well.

    FORBES: Thoughts Of Li Ka-Shing

  • The power to take private property for the common good, typically for things like roads, schools and bridges, dates back to biblical times.

    WSJ: Battle of the Beach

  • Based on this philosophy, Shariah compliant financial instruments and techniques have been developed and successfully used by Islamic banks and their customers worldwide in the funding of items such as property, ships, hotels and power plants.

    FORBES: South Dakota's Ill-Considered Attack On Islamic Financing

  • In the past decade, Wu had turned Hopewell, once just another local property company, into an infrastructure and power developer in China, the Philippines, Thailand and soon, says the magnate, in Pakistan and India.

    CNN: HANGING ON AT HOPEWELL

  • One is in a case about the limits of the power of local governments to condemn property when the local governments are trying to pursue a redevelopment project.

    NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: Court Passes on Padilla Case

  • Mr al-Bukhary, a close friend of the prime minister's, has built an extraordinary empire in a the five years since the crisis, including Malaysia's fast-growing new container port at Tanjung Pelepas, a hotel and property group, Pernas, mining companies, power companies, palm-oil companies and much else, including a controlling stake in the Bakun dam on the island of Borneo.

    ECONOMIST: The big clean-up

  • The goals here are to meet the expected future demand for power and gas without running roughshod over property owners.

    FORBES: Energy Companies and Landowners are Clashing over Property Rights

  • The 20-year-old cultural property act gives U.S. officials the power to strike such agreements with nations that ratified the 1970 Unesco convention.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Ambani got the land along with a bungalow as far back as in 2003 when Reliance Energy acquired power utility BSES which originally owned the property.

    FORBES: Anil Ambani's Taj Mahal?

  • The Cultural Property Implementation Act of 1983 gives the feds the power, among other things, to seize artifacts documented in the inventory of archeological sites or museums of countries that ratified a 1970 Unesco convention on illicit antiquities.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So even granted the will-power to stabilise the economy, privatise state property and liberalise markets, would it work?

    ECONOMIST: The world after 1989

  • The German association of family businesses argues that the new rescue fund "threatens the constitutionally protected property rights of all German citizens" by giving Brussels power to spend their money.

    BBC: German court hears pleas against eurozone bailout fund

  • This could be a pretty robust process, given the kicking given to the bill in the Second Reading Debate on 7 June, when some peers clearly thought the bill didn't go far enough in promoting local power while others feared a massive infringement over property rights.

    BBC: Viewing guide: The week ahead in Parliament

  • Apple is a cheaper property, selling at 12 times forward 12-month earnings power vs.

    FORBES: Google And Apple: Why I Own Them Both

  • Mr Aleman came to power in January set on the wholesale return of property to its ex-owners.

    ECONOMIST: Nicaragua

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