For a time, I actually dreamed of becoming a political reporter, chasing lawmakers down the corridors of power for a living.

Zuckerberg s vision may sound like a self interested push to gain more Facebook users.

The attraction of remaining in power is getting stronger across the region.

Who Won Europe?

She pushed for greater integration of the European single market, while questioning whether this really required ceding more political authority to the European Commission.

By doing so, artists can earn more money out of their old content, and companies can save money by buying pre made models instead of paying an employee to create one from scratch.

They were not politicians. All they asked for was more freedom.

People everywhere want a new relationship with power more autonomy and more respect.

In the coming month, several rounds of retirements should allow the president to place more of his people in positions of power.

The world will need more cooperation in the coming years, as climate change begins to interact with and exacerbate extreme weather events, in order to gain the lead time needed to prepare for disasters.

But, in the absence of a credible enforcer (and lacking sufficient mutual assurances), participants felt that they had more to gain from continuing their non cooperative behavior.

His political rivals are gaining new positions of power, and the population is increasingly unhappy with the economy s continuing decline.

MINURSO should be given more power to intervene, so as to prevent outbreaks of violence and human rights violations.

While such reforms which give citizens more power by establishing semi autonomous local governments are crucial, the underlying motivation is the creation of more legislative positions.

Having agreed to delegate responsibility for monetary policy to the European Central Bank, most governments put up fierce resistance to any further transfer of sovereignty.

The Palestinian movement is falling apart, the radicals are gaining control, and nobody is going to make peace.

He won fame by the novel.

Sami had the sheriff in his back pocket.

I must earn the respect I get.

But the totalitarian mindset has since resurfaced in leaders who, with their claim to represent the will of the majority, appropriate more and more power.

When Saddam Hussein came to power in 1979, the air force grew very quickly when Iraq ordered more Soviet and French aircraft.

At every stage, their hope was to buy time for other policymakers to get their act together, only to find themselves forced to look for ways to buy even more time.

The US allowed Serbia into NATO s Partnership for Peace, despite Serbia s refusal to extradite General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serbs military leader in the 1990 s, to The Hague to face war crimes charges.

The OSCE reported that in Uzbekistan at least 14 death sentences have been executed despite requests of the Human Rights Committee to stay the executions, which reminded Uzbekistan that it amounts to a grave breach of the Optional Protocol .

But how can a lengthy negotiation be carried out without seeming to benefit the party, which wants to gain more time? Political optics that is, the management of public perceptions will be a very important part of this negotiation.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

If the rationale for arming the opposition is not so much to win the war as to weaken the government s resistance to negotiation, it is arguable that the elements of a hurting stalemate are already in place, with more weapons likely to produce nothing but more fighting and more casualties.

At the same time, and as the Palestinians point out, Israel could and should do more to strengthen the ability of the Palestinian Authority to carry out its responsibilities.

This refers to two different types of power, which are possession of power and exercising power.

Slovakia's portion of per capita national income rose from slightly more than 60 percent of that of Bohemia and Moravia in 1948 to nearly 80 percent in 1968, and Slovak per capita earning power equaled that of the Czechs in 1971.

Livelihoods destroyed by the tsunami have not been restored.

The Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas), which emerged during the first Intifada in 1987, grew more powerful in the 1990 s, after the return of the PLO s Yasser Arafat and the creation, as a result of the Oslo Accords, of the Palestinian Authority.

Ahmedinejad may be making increasingly challenging statements, but he does not have the authority to act on them.

In response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him. As leading Russian military expert Alexander Golts argues, the problem in Russia is not a lack of central power, but of power exercised incompetently and without individual initiative.

The video sold over 100,000 copies, with both Laurer and Waltman earning a share of the profits.

The object was plain to gain a Russian, and consequently, a Chinese abstention.

Some argue that the Taliban, eager to return to power, would want to reconcile with the international community or at least prevent further Western military strikes.

Because assistance does not rest on federal resources, but rather on the pooling of national resources, creditor states inevitably demand more power in exchange for providing more support to their neighbors.

So the choice for the Saudi rulers is stark empower the Shia within the system, or watch as they increase their power through external alliances.

You do not win people over by bombing them, but by helping them.

The Merlin engine is often considered to be one of the main factors in winning the war for the Allies.

The focus has been on buying time, rather than on implementing a sensible transition to a sustainable policy stance.

Following return, they are faced with challenges of reintegration and re establishing livelihoods.

The war has been won, but we must make sure that we can win the peace.

Should the proposal be adopted, we would be further concentrating political power in a handful of countries, fostering greater inequalities and hampering cooperation and the commitment of nations to the cause of peace and security.