Hard power involves the use of military force and economic sanctions to coerce opponents into accepting American demands.
But should Turkey now consider putting some "hard power" on the table, without which it might become ineffective in its region?
So Turkish strength, in terms of hard power, of soft power, in terms of economic relations, is an asset for any American administration.
Not putting troops in harm's way, but hard power with altitude.
As a trading nation with strong overseas links, Britain has a vital stake in maintaining international order and must be able to project hard power overseas.
Mr Medvedev's November proposal for a new European security treaty focuses on hard power and implies a veto on NATO expansion which is unpalatable to the West.
Although, was there just a hint of uncertainty when he was asked whether his "hard power" approach to foreign relations and close alliance with the US would survive him?
Taken together, these instruments have come to be called "soft power" (as opposed to the traditional kind of "hard power" represented by armies, navies, air forces and nuclear weapons).
As a "combatant command plus, " one that mixes soft and hard power and thus military and civilian personnel, AFRICOM will be a hybrid giant staffed by an interagency personnel kaleidoscope.
The hard power over local services and the soft power to do deals, bang heads together and formulate a vision for the future could drive real change and economic growth outside London, he said.
And the shift has occurred from public power to private power, from political power to economic power, from hard power to soft power, with the end of the Cold War as the turning point.
When FDR turned toward the use of hard power after the 1936 elections, with a court-packing plan that would have added more liberal justices to the Supreme Court, the opposition to the White House increased, and FDR encountered more trouble reaching his goals.
One of the many whirlwind trips with Clinton took us from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Vietnam and South Korea, where she visited the demilitarised zone along with the border with North Korea in the company of Gates for a display of soft and hard power.
His presidency was defined by the use of hard presidential power.
But with the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971, due to fiscal incontinence, rising inflation and union militancy, came what Mr Priestland sees as the tragic demise of sagely technocrats and a renaissance of hard merchant power.
The stiff upper lip days are long gone, and while Britain still supplies valuable intelligence and a relatively reliable vote in international organizations, it is increasingly unwilling or unable to supply what has become rare from our allies: hard military power.
As he decides what kind of president he would like to be in the coming years, Barack Obama might think about the distinction that diplomatic scholars have made between "soft" and "hard" power to describe how the United States can influence nations overseas.
Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.
She faces regional divisions that make centralisation of power hard in Ukraine.
Too aggressive a Chinese military posture could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors that would weaken both its hard and soft power.
That said, hard drives, power supplies, and touch screen do break.
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Intel, in particular, said Mr Gorbold, had worked hard to reduce power consumption across all its processors for years, making it possible to put them in little boxes that do not need cooling.
In the meantime, the policy of outsiders should be neither to prop it up nor shatter it to pieces, but to use a mix of hard and soft power to guide it to a soft landing.
The cool-running, lower-power Barracuda Green hard drive delivers whisper-quiet acoustics and helps reduce system costs associated with the fans and power supply devices often required for power-hungry systems.
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That local officials from elsewhere will not abuse their power is hard to believe.
Rhode Island was also hard-hit by power disruptions, while Connecticut appeared to fare better.
Bloomberg news says increased Chinese competition has hit European wind- and solar-power firms hard, and several of them now face bankruptcy.
Dell gets its components from Taiwan, whereas IBM has its own technology in screens, hard drives, and power management, according to Sanchez.
The business aviation community banded together to assist, providing supplies and aid areas left hard to reach by power and road outages.
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