Last week, Garber was politic about its effect on MLS's lower-league relationships, but the move certainly has a side effect of broadening the power base of a soccer pyramid that has MLS, and its controlled model, at its apex.
Critics of the EPA's green power rankings argue that the agency should base criteria on the percentage of green power purchased, not the total amount of renewable-energy credits a school buys.
This is especially important because the assembly is the power base of the LDP's coalition partner, New Komeito, which gives the party its majority.
It now has the largest installed base of wind power in the world, and is targeting to have 20 percent of its energy sourced from renewables by 2020.
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Putting aside the very real limits to the growth of wind power, the installed base of renewables would have to grow at a compound rate of more than 12% a year to reach 20% of the national electricity mix within a decade.
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.
After the credit crisis set in and the healing aspects of deflation began to take hold, central banks rapidly expanded the supply of base money in an effort to quickly erode the purchasing power of their currencies and bring real estate prices higher.
It's the power base of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and we're told that Iraqi forces have moved into that area in force today.
While a leveled up creature can be more than a match for a higher ranked card, the base power level of the higher ranks and rarity make them highly sought after.
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What looks like a peaceful, rustic refuge in upstate New York turns out to have been the power base of a small cult, overseen by the charismatic Patrick (John Hawkes), which lured Martha and other errant young souls into its nefarious ways.
But that strategy would give him time to transfer his position and executive functions from the Yugoslav federal presidency back to his power base within the republic of Serbia itself.
At the end of it all, his power-base in ruins, Mr Brown forswears future ambition and kisses the hand of Mr Blair.
They organize the grassroots political base through a patronage system to maximize the raw power of their Democrat political cause.
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The chic lobby features modern seating with international power outlets discreetly placed at the base of each.
In a riposte to Mr Yushchenko's allegations (backed by western election observers) of vote-rigging in Mr Yanukovich's power base in the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine, Mr Yanukovich has alleged ballot-stuffing in Mr Yushchenko's Ukrainian-speaking stronghold in the west, and has filed his own complaint to the Supreme Court.
Apple also provides a setting in the Airport Extreme software that let us diminish the base station's transmitting power should we want to restrict the range of transmission to, say, a conference room for security reasons.
Some in the elite argue that, although Mr Medvedev lacks his own power base, he has the most important resource of all: the seal and signature of the president.
It says that many in France believe Jospin is trying to strengthen his power base at the expense of President Jacques Chirac.
Thursdays tend to be party nights in Medellin, Colombia's third-largest city and former power base of the late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.
With the power of its installed base, its huge credibility in the market and an ability to execute that few of its rivals can match, Sun will take some beating.
Mr Howard is now painting Mr Rudd as a prisoner of the trade unions, Labor's traditional power base, in an era when only one-fifth of Australian workers belong to unions, and even fewer in the private sector.
Reuters news agency reports that columns of al-Shabab battle-wagons mounted with heavy machine guns have rushed to reinforce Afmadow, which is about 90km north of the port city of Kismayo, al-Shabab's main economic power base.
Rural voters, the LDP's traditional power base, have become particularly disillusioned, not least because of the revolving door at the agriculture ministry.
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The debate was won hands down by McConnell and Zittrain mostly because they stuck to the topic while the Schneier-Rotenberg team attempted to paint a picture of a power and money grab on the part of the defense-industrial base.
Conservative Brits are convinced that the French and Germans want to rein in their power base in financial services, as the Brits say almost 80% of EU financial transactions are currently executed in London.
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And it would open up a rival power base to that of the prime minister, something a Westminster system is not designed to cope with.
There is a slight concern that the Falcons do not have as large or rabid of a fan base to support as large of an increase in prices as those with power in the secondary market may enjoy.
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While Sadr pays lip service to the mainstream Shiite religious leadership based in Najaf, his base of power is different.
The obvious, and probably growing, need for the kind of power projection made possible by C-17 airlifters should compel a careful reassessment of the defense industrial base's capacity to meet such needs over the long haul.
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The report does point to the benefits of nuclear power, including competitive pricing, strong base-load power provision, and low-carbon emissions.
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