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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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So in today's regular conference call with reporters, Clinton's communications director Harold Wolfson put a hard spin on the power of Obama's money.
In recent months, some had criticized McKiernan for pressing too hard for more combat power, but last November he made it clear -- Afghanistan needed more attention.
Irene hit that area hard, knocking out power to 700, 000 residents, claiming two lives, and damaging dozens of homes while sweeping four of them out to sea.
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Have you ever been playing around with molten metal salt, when you accidentally created hollow, soft-shelled particles that could one day increase hard disk storage or power future QLED displays?
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That's especially true in hockey, where the combination of speed, power, hard ice and even harder pucks can take a toll on even the best players, who usually avoid fights at all costs.
It is hard to have pricing power when your competition also has more capacity than he wants, so he prices his product as low as he can to make a profit, but also to get the sale.
Girls may choose not to speak up for many reasons, but it's hard to ignore the power of a culture that pushes them to choose boys over each other and punish other girls to protect their own reputations.
And we have from the beginning, as you know, worked very hard on the great power relationships because the platform of a productive, constructive set of great power relationships provide the opportunity for the United States to pursue its interests in the most effective way.
It is hard to imagine any nuclear power plant owner allowing the same misuse to occur again.
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