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.
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.
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 central planning powers of Beijing are slowly, purposefully, eroding.
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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.
Despite laws set in the early 1990s to give the central bank powers similar to other such institutions, the government has undermined the bank's role in setting monetary policy by using it as a funding vehicle to pay for big-spending projects, stoking inflation.
The Chinese government is unlikely to grant the central bank such powers in the near future.
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Last year, legislators in Brussels agreed to give the European Central Bank regulatory powers over eurozone banks.
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It has a weak central bank whose powers are unclear.
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It was Edison's financial clerk, Samuel Insull, who thought of creating a central plant that powers an entire region, turning electricity into a utility and vastly dropping its price.
The bill hands powers from central government to local councils and neighbourhoods as part of the government's Big Society agenda.
And finally, since agricultural trade reform is so central to big emerging powers like Brazil and India, it would help strengthen our relations with them.
The government says the bill will end the era of big government but Labour says it is a "sham", claiming it hands more than 100 new powers to central government.
But there is still room for explosive dispute over the allocation of powers between the central government and the two component communities.
In theory, the voters approved a plan to set up an elected regional assembly that would assume many of the powers of the central government.
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.
Although the government's reform plan promises that giving greater supervisory powers to the central bank is next month's top priority, it is hard to see these being much use without a change of leadership there.
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.
Central banks may enjoy their new powers, yet it could be argued that monetary policy is not well suited to this role, as its effects on the economy are felt only after long and variable lags.
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.
Nor is it clear how ready other central banks are to use these new powers.
In response to the inflation shocks of the 1970s and 1980s, governments ceded powers over interest rates to central banks.
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.
He believes in a federal system--a central government and local governments that have genuine powers.
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.
Central to ForeverMap 2 is the OpenStreetMap data which powers the app.
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The executive order gives American institutions the powers to freeze assets related to the Central Bank of Iran, instead of just turning them back.
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