Neither the Allies nor the Central Powers were fighting the war for ideological gain.
The discussion of war finance and industrial mobilisation already shows the shape of eventual defeat for the central powers.
Yadav, 49, has always governed his home state with a proprietorial air while directing a jaundiced eye at the central powers in New Delhi.
In World War I the Allied strategy was to engage and defeat the center of gravity of the Central Powers, the German field army.
The Chinese government is unlikely to grant the central bank such powers in the near future.
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The probable next government wants to hand the FSA's powers to the central bank, so by the time things look more shipshape, the FSA may well have been liquidated itself.
He told Britain's Daily Telegraph that the lack of central powers to co-ordinate economic policies allowed some members to run up unsustainable debt.
Documents were submitted to the judiciary in May 2011 and it was the Bank of Italy's "moral suasion" that led to the ousting of Monte dei Paschi's management last year as the central bank did not have the powers to dismiss managers, the people said.
The bill hands powers from central government to local councils and neighbourhoods as part of the government's Big Society agenda.
Last year, legislators in Brussels agreed to give the European Central Bank regulatory powers over eurozone banks.
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The market regulator's powers do not extend to the central bank, but Consob officials recognise that the Bank of Italy's presence as a shareholder in quoted companies is a serious problem.
The legislation implements most of the recommendations of the Calman Commission into the powers of the Scottish government, including the central proposal to give Holyrood more power over income tax rates.
In an earlier phase of capitalism, Britain and the earlier European commercial powers (the Dutch Republic, Sweden) created central banks either to lend money to the government or to stabilise the convertibility of trading currencies into gold.
Recently, Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled that a bill proposing the transfer of vital powers held by Sri Lanka's provinces back to the central government needed prior approval from provincial councils.
In another controversial decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a bill proposing the transfer of vital powers held by Sri Lanka's provinces back to the central government needed prior approval from provincial councils.
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President Hosni Mubarak has been the central pillar of the alliance between Western powers and authoritarian Arab leaders and without him it may not be sustainable.
Both Ms Banerjee and Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar state, model themselves as champions of federalism, but have had no "qualms in using central intervention powers to suit the interest of their respective parties", observes Mr Kailash.
Under the scheme, powers such as the ability to set and spend budgets are devolved from central government to local authorities in a bid to increase growth.
Central to ForeverMap 2 is the OpenStreetMap data which powers the app.
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Under the city deal scheme, certain powers, such as the ability to set and spend budgets, are devolved from central government to local authorities in a bid to increase growth.
But legal quibbles count for little when set against the political fact that Britain's central government has given away powers that it will never dare to take back now that devolution has been consecrated by referendums.
In response to the inflation shocks of the 1970s and 1980s, governments ceded powers over interest rates to central banks.
America moved heavily into Central Asia for the war in Afghanistan, and the two big powers have eyed each other warily in the region ever since.
The central protagonist of this tale is Jack Frost, a Puckish prankster whose powers appear to be confined to giving children snow days.
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But documents that were declassified in the 1990s showed Mr. Powers's flight had been a joint Central Intelligence Agency-Air Force mission, making him eligible for military medals.
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But as George Tenet, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has argued, an intelligence director with only general supervisory powers could weaken co-ordination not strengthen it.
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It is also central to Islamic identity as the site of brutal conflicts, first with Christian Crusaders and then Western powers.
They have yielded powers not just to Brussels, but to independent central banks (for 11 of them, to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt), and to sub-national governments in their own regions.
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