And the phrase has retained its political power for six decades.
Iran's access to the pipeline will earn it billions of dollars annually and increase its political power as Europe increases it dependence on Iranian gas.
The authors' argument, first laid out in the Atlantic a year ago, is that America's big banks act as an oligarchy, a group that has gained political power because of its economic power and then uses that political power for its own benefit.
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But if China continues to consolidate its economic and political power, its assertiveness will likely grow, which will leave U.S. influence on China increasingly limited.
Many Egyptian politicians and analysts, accustomed to attributing moves by the SCAF to efforts to extend its own political power or block Islamists, struggled to divine a clear political motive for the disqualifications.
The Marcos clan is rebuilding its political and business power base too.
That's a horse of a different color from the IRS's abusing its power for political purposes.
As the use of social media accelerates, it's incumbent upon everyone involved in the political process to make sure its power is used to harness everything good about the American political system, rather than to hasten political trends that are hurting our republic.
The defeat shows the degree to which the LDP is losing its power as a political force.
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This is also reflected in its federal political system, whereby power is shared between the central government and 28 states.
However the distancing of the institution from political power has its uses, since politics is divisive and coalitions are inherently unstable.
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Hence, any attempt to restructure the NNPC will affect the country to its core, impacting entrenched political power bases as well as average Nigerians who are growing ever more dependent on gasoline and electricity for living a modern life.
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"There is no such thing as a former KGB man, " as Russian President (and former KGB man) Vladimir Putin famously said, which may help explain the concentration of political power in its successor the FSB, the official intimidation of nongovernmental organizations, and the systematic assassination of journalists and others critical of the regime.
Since the Supreme Court gets to decide which cases it will hear, and since Supreme Court justices have largely uniform worldviews, it has used its usurped power to shape the political and social direction of Israel, to cow the Knesset into subservience, to constrain the powers of the government to lead the country and to limit the ability of the IDF to defend the country.
Of late it has been more discreet in its killing, seeking instead to get political power.
In short: the Putin regime can engage in a very large number of possible financial and political maneuvers to sustain its position in power.
But in its zeal to tilt the balance of political power away from Washington towards the states, the court's majority has embarked on a venture as detached from any constitutional moorings as was the liberal Warren Court of the 1960s in its most activist mood.
But it is not particularly true of his big opponents -- including the left-wing Democratic Party, which has its own scandals, its own selfish interests and, during the election campaign, its own evidence of the abuse of political power in the case of Italy's third-largest (and oldest) bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, whose business was allegedly run and distorted in the interests of local Democratic Party politicians in that area.
Africa should look to its past when there were councils of elders and other counterweights to royal or chiefly power for political structures that suit its society, say some.
In the era of leftist political correctness with its founding principle that Western power is evil and that the freedom to harm democracies is inviolate, can democracies defend their security and national interests?
On Monday, Stremor Corp launched Unpartial.com, a political website to demonstrate the power of its Language Heuristics Engine.
How political leaders respond to this connectivity and its power will be a test of values, open versus closed.
China seems far from enjoying the sort of confidence in its own political system that one expects of a great power.
"I want to see legislators make correct appraisals, not emotional responses, " said Richard Feldman, who was regional political director for the NRA during its rise to power in the 1980s and is president of a gun rights group called the Independent Firearm Owners Association.
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"Acorn has been hijacked by a power-hungry clique that has its own political and personal agendas, " she told me.
In recent decades the country has seen a relentless growth in the numbers, power and political self-confidence of its ultra-Orthodox citizens.
The ultimate goal of this new energy alliance is to eventually humble the U.S. as the world's undisputed political, economic and military power, forcing its withdraw from the world stage by using energy as a sledgehammer for international change.
If the African-American community also sees the power of the ballot to overcome other historical obstacles such as entrenched poverty, widening wealth, education gaps and safer streets where it's not as easy for a criminal to get a gun as it is to buy a cigarette, then this expansion of its voting power will be a more permanent fixture on the political scene.
Not that the best of assemblies or most far-reaching of constitutional changes could on its own radically reform the political system or achieve a juster distribution of power, let alone wealth.
Meanwhile, the main obstacle to abolishing RTL, the Ministry of Public Security, which holds the unchecked power to detain individuals in these facilities, has seen its political clout diminished under the new leadership arrangement.
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