We are already seeing consumer protections being put in place that will reign in the power and the authority of insurance companies to take advantage of patients.
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One example he points to is the Bonneville Power Authority in the Pacific Northwest, which he said could increase the wind share of its generation portfolio from 20% to 40% within several years.
Crucially, however, prosecutors may no longer need to prove the power of authority in a bribery case to secure a conviction.
The plant, Desert Rock, is owned jointly by the tribe's power authority and Houston-based Sithe Global Power, which in turn is majority-owned by Blackstone, a large private-equity firm.
For example, in 2008, two utilities based in New York, Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and Consolidated Edison, Inc.
But nobody in authority seemed to have the inclination (or power) to investigate.
Finally, and most important in the near-term, were the meetings that occurred Monday in Baghdad in which the Coalition Provisional Authority formally handed over power to a sovereign Iraqi government and its new members were sworn into office.
The appointment of Mr. Hamdallah means Palestinians are unlikely to head to elections any time soon, keeping Mr. Abbas in power as head of the Palestinian Authority, the Western-backed government that has a measure of self-rule over Palestinians in the West Bank.
Finally, the event illustrated the convening power of culture and traditional authority in national development.
At the moment, all three are in the Rockaways, which the Long Island Power Authority still has not brought on line, with two more to be located there shortly.
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" Richard Neustadt's classic, "Presidential Power, " published way back in 1960, reminded that even the supposed "immense" authority of the White House is really just the "power to persuade.
In Britain, the Financial Services Authority has been given veto power over the nominees to big bank boards.
Over the past 20 years or so, the power of Egypt's central authority in its hinterlands has weakened.
President Obama signed an executive order in October of 2011 giving the FDA additional power and authority which requires advance reporting of anticipated shortages.
The move, officially in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, was also meant to bolster the reputation of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose government is locked in a power struggle with the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip.
Gov. PALIN: There's been some evidence of some in the Republican Party just taking it for granted that power and authority was given them, and that's been very, very, very unfortunate.
And a May report by the Government Accountability Office found that the Tennessee Valley Authority, which supplies power to almost 9 million people in the southeastern U.S., had not installed sufficient cybersecurity measures.
No other single party had fielded enough candidates to claim an overall majority, although Shropshire County Council had been through many years of no overall control before the Conservatives took power in the run up to it becoming a unitary authority.
Its power rests entirely on people's belief in its legitimate authority.
In addition to using its authority to investigate and indict, state prosecutors use that power to determine how and against whom the laws will be enforced generally in the country.
After the 2003 blackout revealed the vulnerabilities of the transmission system and the immediate need for new power lines Congress in 2005 gave the federal government "backstopping" authority to site new projects.
Lombardi, also a Jesuit, said he was particularly stunned by the election given that Jesuits typically shun positions of authority in the church, instead offering their work in service to those in power.
Mr. Burton's treatise, like the man himself, rests between two ages one in which the authority of Scripture reigned supreme, and a newer era acknowledging the power of deductive reasoning to sort out life's great questions.
Local authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and the Stornoway Trust, which is involved in wind power projects, have concerns the cable will not be constructed.
YouTube has since responded, stating that UMG only has the power to do this in limited circumstances, and that UMG overstepped its authority in the Megaupload case.
The MDC's Tendai Biti, who currently serves as finance minister, told the BBC the document was the "midwife" to a brand new Zimbabwe as it sets out people's rights, devolves some power and sets up a system of check and balances for those in authority.
And Congress is in no mood to grant it fast-track negotiating authority, without which America lacks the power to strike trade deals and so cannot negotiate credibly.
Lebanon balked at another French idea about strengthening an existing U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon called UNIFIL. France proposed UNIFIL be given the given the power and authority to contain and disarm Hezbollah.
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).
Respect must be earned -- and in our time it can be earned only if a great power's attributes include moral authority.
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