• LEAs, traditional bastions of bureaucratic left-wing power, giving schools more freedom to manage their own affairs.

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  • The so-called "pink tide" that has brought several left-wing leaders to power in Latin America in the past decade is not exactly on the ebb, but the hostility countries such as Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia felt towards the Bush administration has abated.

    CNN: Time for U.S. and Cuba to kiss and make up

  • Denmark - A right wing coalition came to power last year.

    BBC: Portugal continues centre-right trend

  • The contact damaged Vautier's wing, and although Power seemed to escape major damage, his car stalled as he tried to pull away after the service stop.

    NPR: Sato 1st Japanese Driver To Win An IndyCar Race

  • After Binyamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition came to power in 1996, the new Israeli prime minister bowed to pressure to include the former army general in his cabinet.

    BBC: Profile: Ariel Sharon

  • In Greece, the right-wing New Democracy party came to power in 2004 pledging a liberalisation of the economy.

    ECONOMIST: Dealing with fiscal deficits

  • His right-wing coalition government has been in power since 2009.

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  • Power is generated by the wing flying in a circular path, with electricity transmitted to the ground via the conducting core of the tether.

    BBC: Google acquires kite-power generator

  • Backers hope they will prove a cheaper alternative to helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for tasks as varied as power and pipeline inspection, mapping, security, border surveillance, research, filming, fire fighting, search and rescue and delivering supplies.

    ECONOMIST: A small Welsh airport has become an unlikely tech cluster

  • Their striking power lies in their air wing (in the case of aircraft carriers, although in the MISTRALs it will lie in helicopters and infantry vehicles as well as the troop component) and they almost never go anywhere unescorted.

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  • Mr Bush comes from the reformist wing of the party and still has the power to remind independent voters of this, though he is not doing so now.

    ECONOMIST: Striking back at the empire

  • Washington is playing a livelier brand of hockey under Oates, a Hockey Hall of Fame forward who shifted Ovechkin from left wing to right wing and helped design the Capitals' league-best power play.

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  • For the moment, though, it appears that the extreme right wing is on the verge of securing a degree of power over Congress and the Republican Party that is unprecedented in modern American history.

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  • But Washington is playing a livelier brand of hockey under first-time NHL head coach Adam Oates, a Hockey Hall of Fame forward who shifted Ovechkin from left wing to right wing and helped design the Capitals' league-best power play.

    NPR: Ovechkin, Holtby Lead Capitals Past Rangers 3-1

  • The Makani kite is a black wing with four propellers and a tether that doubles as a power cord.

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  • Wolves' revival was emboldened by the power and drive of Frimpong in midfield and the wing play of Kightly and Matt Jarvis.

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  • But it was again the All Blacks' strike power that told, Farrell freeing Whitney on the wing, the flanker stepping delightfully inside and driving to the line for a score improved by Thomas.

    BBC: Neath 22-22 Swansea

  • But Sarkozy's failure to deliver on his promises on immigration during five years in power has undermined his support from the right-wing electorate despite his attempt to appeal to them in campaigning, Minkenberg said.

    CNN: Is the far right gaining ground in Europe?

  • Fears of uncurbed immigration, legal and illegal as Europe's internal borders fall away, may have boosted right-wing parties at the margins, enough sometimes to bring them to power.

    ECONOMIST: France and Europe

  • And the current bunch of Republicans in power are not conservative at all: they are right-wing ideologues.

    ECONOMIST: Past and present dangers

  • Last September's elections brought to power a party with strong ties to the church's conservative wing.

    ECONOMIST: Poland

  • They first came to power in the 1960s, as an alternative to the left-wing wave then sweeping Latin America.

    ECONOMIST: Chile

  • For decades they have been unchallenged as Sweden's biggest party (even when out of power), but recent opinion polls suggest that the right-wing Moderates, boosted by the return of their leader, Carl Bildt, from a two-year stint as international troubleshooter for Bosnia, have edged ahead.

    ECONOMIST: Sweden

  • In any event, Mr Sadr's movement is split between pragmatists who want to win a modicum of power by co-operating with the new order and a more militant wing that prefers messianic declarations and last stands.

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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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  • The second is that, in a number of cases, where the centre-right has returned to power, it has been forced to do so with the support of smaller right-wing populist parties, which are often openly protectionist and xenophobic in character.

    BBC: Portugal continues centre-right trend

  • The junior left wing from Petawawa, Ontario scored three in a 3:12 span and also added an assist to power the Bobcats (29-7-5).

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  • No wonder Mr Chirac, a president condemned since the general election of 1997 to cohabit with a left-wing government, is keeping a close eye on the capital: a friendly mayor could help him stay in power.

    ECONOMIST: France

  • Some see a leftist group girding itself to battle a right-wing reformist People's Party (PP) government, led by Mariano Rajoy, that is likely to win power in the next election.

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