When Democrats take power in Congress in January, there are plenty of campaign promises to try to make good on.
These forces will provide a presence at the installation of the interim Afghan government, which is to take power on Saturday.
Still, only a month ago it seemed as though Miss Megawati's greatest difficulty would be to take power without widespread violence.
Latin America's turn to democracy in the past two decades has at last allowed the left to take power by peaceful means.
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But the problem of how to take power out of Whitehall remains.
The army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, a more introverted figure than his predecessor, does not seem to want to take power right now.
Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers announced that there would be no more government funding for fixed speed cameras if the Tories take power.
Somali troops have been fighting a protracted war with the al-Shabaab Islamic militia, which looked poised just a few years ago to take power.
Western Australia's Alinta is the latest big energy distributor to expand its "green" output, announcing Tuesday it will take power from a 90-megawatt wind farm to be built near Geraldton.
They take power away from traditional sources of capital.
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"When foreign statesmen or Syrians thought of a Sunni who could possibly take power, Manaf had to be at the top of the list or very close to the top, " he said.
The Constitution Party came too late to field a candidate in the 2012 presidential election, but Mr ElBaradei said the aim was to take power in 2016, with Egyptians united behind democracy.
Broadly, it seems that Mr Thein Sein promised to push ahead with the release of political prisoners, and give the nod to political reforms that might one day allow the NLD to take power.
Both disaffected groups have tended to support the Liberal Party, and many of their members live in marginal constituencies along the urbanised east coast, where Labor needs to snatch only a handful of seats to take power.
As they prepare to take power on Wednesday, Republican leaders are scaling back that number by as much as half, aides say, because the current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, will be nearly half over before spending cuts could become law.
NPR's Renee Montagne speaks to Richard Viguerie, co-author of America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power, about the changes the "values voters" who helped propel the president to victory expect to see in the next four years.
Bentek explained in a report this week that the abundance of hydropower, especially in the Columbia River Basin, will lead to historically rare negative power prices (where the generating companies actually pay consumers to take the power) as well as a marked reduction in demand for natural gas.
In recent years, the Egyptian leader has reportedly been grooming his son, Gamal, to take over power.
Throughout our history, there have been times when good people have had to take the power back from the powerful interests.
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But there's one area in which he's keen to take more power to himself, and that's in selecting his own shadow cabinet.
Having installed his new ministers, Mr Fox plans promptly to take some power away from them and give it to the states and municipalities.
To roll back the frontier of the state, Margaret Thatcher had to take more POWER and in doing so she sort of accidentally rolled it forward.
But the only way that this will happen is for us citizens to take our power back, pay attention, and hold our elected officials to account.
The message from the markets: take your power back.
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The minister said the exact reason for the collapse had not yet been pinpointed but, in the summer, "states try to take more power from the grid" and at the time of the collapse, the grid frequency was "above normal".
His remedy is to take spending power from central government and put it firmly in the hands of patients and parents, who will be free to buy whatever health care and schooling they want from a variety of eagerly competing providers.
And he said he had decided not to take on the power of the press.
Alinta said it would take all the power generated at the farm.
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