National currencies are backed by national treasuries with the power to tax and central banks with the power to print money.
The challenge for the second group is to find sources of power with which to restore the balance of power with the investor class.
With the prospect of such levels of investments flowing into the UK's energy sector, it seems clear that the nuclear industry will have to compete with the oil and gas industry, with the wind power sector and with renewable fuels companies, not just to attract electricity customers, but also to attract skilled staff such as engineers and scientists.
But it was mine if I wished, simply because I was the last person with the power to do anything with it.
No longer a lab project, high-tech solar power is now commercial and competitive with power rates in the parts of U.S. with the highest power rates.
They are the people with the power and the money, they wouldn't want to jeopardise their supposed superiority.
First, the Internet provides the individual with the power to do his or her own research and make trades.
Banks, the institutions with the power to create some via more enthusiastic lending, are simply not cooperating in sufficient volume.
Tuangou, or team buying, aims to drive unprecedented bargains by combining the reach of the internet with the power of the mob.
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The primeval object of "veneration" was the goddess with the power to call forth desire from men, and to make barren women fertile.
Announcing they were writing to the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, the lawyers said that a single super-inquiry into two of the worst rail disasters in British history would provide the investigation with the power it needs to force through major changes in safety.
He is the only person with the power to grant clemency to stay the execution and commute Williams' four death sentences to life imprisonment with no parole.
The framers created Congress to be another body, unaccountable to the executive, to be entrusted with the nation's security and with the exclusive power to make war.
Few in the capacity crowd of 70, 000, mostly Swedish fans, would have expected such a dramatic finish after 45 minutes in which England opened the scoring, bossed the midfield with power and assurance and looked to have the measure of a distinctly mediocre Swedish team.
The Indian Ocean furiously hurls itself against the jagged coast and the air shudders with the power of its large explosions.
Buffalo, which entered the game with the worst power play in the NHL, went 0-for-5, allowed a short-handed goal, and incurred two icings during the advantages.
Evidence published Tuesday suggests that News Corp. was getting inside information from the government minister with the power to approve or block the acquisition, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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In the Commons, a public bill committee is usually set up to examine the bill, with the power to make amendments provided they are relevant to the bill's subject matter.
It was leading the rest of the world into the future with the demonstrative power of democracy and free markets, new technological breakthroughs in automation, computers, communications, energy, medicine, space travel, to name a few.
You praise her work, you invite her to serve on the committees with the most power and influence, introduce her to clients and use your influence to make sure she is given the best available human resources to get her job done in such a way that she will be the obvious next candidate for promotion to equity partnership, the C-suite, or senior executive status.
But to tell the truth, those limits are not apparent to us, either because the power to require the entry into commerce is symmetrical with the power to prohibit or condition commercial behavior, or because we have not yet perceived a qualitative limitation.
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The fact that it survived, he argues, had far more to do with the fraught power games among France, England, and Austria than with any real will of the Italians to exist as a nation.
Up top, you'll find the notification light alongside the headphone socket, with the power button also sitting along that top edge.
Ministers intend the first commissioners, with the power to hire and fire chief constables, to be in place by May next year.
When the ARA was launched with the power to seize criminals cars and cash Tony Blair said the agency was going to hit big time crooks hard - "where it most hurts in their pockets".
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The projects have a combined capacity of 86 megawatts, and all nine projects have 20-year power purchase agreements with the Ontario Power Authority.
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Most Italians point instead to the overweening power of the baroni (barons), or tenured professors with the power of academic life and death.
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Both feature impossible cities run by madmen, one obsessed with the power of man (and himself) the other claiming to wield the power of God (while still being obsessed with himself).
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The chip offers the processing power of second-generation Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.
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