An understanding of this requires a precise analysis of the balance of power.
If we project the votes from last year's general election onto the new boundaries, very little changes in terms of the balance of power.
Gillespie hoped to help his party get control of statehouses where congressional redistricting was pending, thereby leveraging victories in cheap local races into a means of shifting the balance of power in Washington.
Germany can afford to make concessions on some of the demands from the UK, but it cannot afford to unpick the key parts of the balance of power agreed in the constitution in 2004.
He also worries that the closeness of the balance of power in the Senate could delay things still further, particularly given the recent history of using the appointments process to wage a guerrilla war against the administration.
In the age of the digital customer, the balance of power has shifted.
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But by around 1910, the balance of power had collapsed (as had the political balance of power in Europe, a not-unrelated development).
Analysts called the moves a sign of a major shift in the balance of power between civilian leaders and the military, the backbone of the modern Egyptian state.
The launch of the euro has also changed the balance of power profoundly.
As the balance of economic power in the world changes, mustn't the balance of political power change too?
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Even its current, diminished performance, repeated at the general election that has to be held by next spring, would give M5S about 80 of the seats in the 630-seat lower house Chamber of Deputies and, perhaps, the balance of power.
The challenge for the second group is to find sources of power with which to restore the balance of power with the investor class.
It must be assumed that the new coach is aware of the EPD candidates and prepared to work with them, but the balance of power between the two has yet to be defined.
How do you deal with the speed at which social media and the spread of connected devices has changed the balance of power between a company and its customers and made it difficult to market using traditional advertising tools?
The power of the audience ratings will influence the quality of product referencing in distribution and could even reverse the balance of power between brands and retail.
Attempts at reform had led to the overthrow of the Harold Wilson Labour government in 1970, and an anti-union bill put through by Heath led to the destruction of his majority in 1974 and its replacement by another weak Wilson government that tipped the balance of power still further in the direction of the unions.
Lord Richard said that his committee had "discussed and discussed and discussed the primacy of the House of Commons" over the Lords and, while it was thought that "the balance of power would shift", he believed that the primacy of the Lower House would continue.
Third, it would diminish the dangers of one country overturning the regional balance of power by acquiring these weapons.
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Many of these Republicans, frankly, are going to recall as early as this summer, and if just three of them lose, the balance of power will switch to Democrats in the state Senate.
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These proposals reflect the desire of supporters' groups to shift the balance of power back in their favour.
If the Supreme Court strikes down part or all of the Affordable Care Act, it will not do much to upset the balance of power between the judicial and elected branches.
The outcome of the two cases later this year will shed more light on where the balance of power lies between Big Pharma and the generic upstarts.
But the real regional dimension to all this, and what is bringing them together, is that in all cases what this is about is parties trying to establish new rules of the game, rules of conduct, a new balance of power in the region.
Europe may now be the most successful region both in terms of money and success on the pitch but the balance of power is shifting, to South America, Asia, the Middle East and the new Europe.
But Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said the agenda was being driven by big business which "wanted the balance of power in the workplace tilted even more against the ordinary worker".
It has arisen because of a fundamental shift in the balance of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer.
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Samsung meanwhile is supporting the development of the Tizen OS for mobile phones, an HTML 5 based open source project that will shift the balance of power in mobility away from the device app store to the networks, a move that looks set to be the next disruption in smartphones.
Changing the composition of the House of Lords is, however, likely to alter both the way the Lords operates and the balance of power between it and the Commons.
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In adopting the 10 Constitutional Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights, the Framers sought to balance the power and security of a new Federal Government with a guarantee of our most basic civil liberties.
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Since the invention of writing, the written word has always disrupted the balance of power in societies.
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