The left, enjoying a taste of power, is unlikely to topple the government.

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To many who heard Evans lecture in London in the early 1900s, Minoan Crete shared much of the same taste for power and aesthetics as imperial Britain.

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Nwokobia got his first taste of the power of this real-time monitoring when the system first got up and running.

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The taste of the consumers and buying power of the consumers is also constantly changing.

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To an extent never seen in England, the court was the centre of taste as well as power.

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And the controversy surrounding publication does give them an intoxicating taste of power.

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Her plan was for the Left Party to prop up the government from outside, giving it a first taste of power in a western German state.

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Habibie, are loathed by most of the voters, an alliance with them would offer Indonesia's Islamist parties their first real taste of power.

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Yet there is no obvious coalition partner for Mr Samaras apart from the right-wing Laos (People's) party under George Karatzaferis, now enjoying its first taste of power as a junior partner in Mr Papademos's government.

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