“You leapfrog over the need for fixed lines, ” said Adam Kendall, head of the sub-Saharan Africa power practice for McKinsey &Company, the global consulting firm.

“超越了对固定线路的需求，”全球咨询公司 McKinsey &Company非洲南撒哈拉电力业务总裁亚当·肯戴尔说。

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Well it's doubtful that France, with its strong Gaullist traditions, will ever surrender sufficient control over budget-making to a centralised extra-territorial authority (Brussels or Berlin, depending on where you think the power would in practice reside).

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John McConomy, who runs PricewaterhouseCoopers' U.S. power and utilities practice, sees a likelihood of a lot more deals like these, although he cautions that the volatility of fuel prices and the involvement of newly invigorated regulators will stymie some plans.

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The revolution of 1789 in theory made the people sovereign yet in practice left power in the hands of an elite ruling in the people's name.

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