The house, set in 12 acres of garden in Regent's Park, has served as an elegant soft-power asset for America in Britain since 1955.
But Europe - believing so strongly in soft power - had failed utterly in its own backyard at Srebrenica.
But the recent celebrated visits of Americans such as Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former NBA Star Dennis Rodman show the appeal the U.S. still has -- and the soft power it can leverage.
Their tools are the soft power of campaign-finance contributions, the revolving door of jobs in government and on Wall Street, and the creation of a culture that equated Wall Street's gain with America's gain.
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The Americans should use their soft power to keep al-Maliki holding the stick in the middle.
Mr. Pierini blames EU treaty law for giving the U.K., France and Germany the power to stifle a common foreign policy and says the separation of aid and humanitarian assistance from the EU's diplomatic decision-making has undermined some of the soft power it can otherwise project.
Have you ever been playing around with molten metal salt, when you accidentally created hollow, soft-shelled particles that could one day increase hard disk storage or power future QLED displays?
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Cole Ikkala put a soft goal past goalie Parker Milner, and Shayne Gostisbehere added a power-play goal to cap the three-goal second period.
This week we talked about the growing reach and influence of Chinese soft power around the world, and the advent of the e-bike on Beijing streets (Kuo and Osnos both worship at the temple of the e-bike, and never resist an opportunity to proselytize).
And despite her four-letter outbursts and short fuse, Kelly has got her soft side, and the power ballad is not the only evidence of that on the album.
We have soft power, the policies of attraction that Professor Nye has so elegantly crystallized: long-term, positive, appealing aspects of American culture and society that aren't necessarily calibrated to promote a particular policy or initiative, but are always working for us in the background.
For a more recent, if similarly calamitous, manifestation of the power of chaos theory, consider how different the world would be today had not a devout, soft-spoken Saudi Arabian engineer inherited a significant fortune from his estranged father.
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