Assuming the lever does not dissipate or store energy, the power into the lever must equal the power out of the lever.

A simple machine, such as a lever, pulley, or gear train, is ideal if the power input is equal to the power output of the device, which means there are no losses.

It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia s power and to revise the post Soviet order.

Trade relations provide another all important lever.

The proportion of each is determined by the lever rule.

Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

And now we're in this new model of leadership, where the way we make change is not by using money or power to lever a system, but by leading.

For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.

In effect, rather than according serious room for decision making to his prime minister, François Fillon, or to Fillon s cabinet, Sarkozy has arrogated almost every lever of power to himself and his advisers within the Élysée Palace.

And as they slide their hand down the lever, they can push with a smaller effective lever length, but push through a bigger angle every stroke, which makes a faster rotational speed, and gives you an effective high gear.

Russia today has retained its strength only as a supplier of energy and other natural resources. It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia s power and to revise the post Soviet order.

As the lever rotates around the fulcrum, points farther from this pivot move faster than points closer to the pivot.

Gazprom is also Russia s main lever of influence in the EU as a whole, because the company supplies 30 of the Union s natural gas needs.

Productive and decent employment is the most powerful lever to ensure the stability of social security during demographic change and to enhance social security coverage.

The biggest but most important challenge is to build and maintain good institutions. (...) transparency will be the most powerful lever for accountability.

After the fish come into the net, the netting team presses the poles and uses the lever principle to bring the net up.

We encourage donors to follow through on their commitments to increase effective aid for trade assistance to help developing countries take full advantage of trade opportunities as a lever for growth.

As the protests began, Deng s chosen successor, Premier Zhao Ziyang, was tempted to use the mass movement as a lever to push harder for market reform, and possibly political reform.

The lever for this process will continue to be the EU s central bureaucracy, the mechanism that formulates the member states common interests and whose field of action is determined by loose, and periodic, inter governmental collaboration.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process. Today, President Mitterrand s mistress and daughter could not benefit from the media s complicity no state secrets, and no aristocratic excess, can escape today s bloggers.

Components of power systems Supplies All power systems have one or more sources of power.

Smart power means the combination of the hard power of command and the soft power of attraction.

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

While the Bush administration largely turned its back on Bosnia, the EU became deeply engaged EU membership has been the critical lever for pressing reforms in Bosnia since it was made policy in 2003.

On the other hand, if the distance a from the fulcrum to the input force is less than the distance b from the fulcrum to the output force, then the lever reduces the input force.

Two types of power shifts are occurring in this century power transition and power diffusion.

Local power, central power, now, people power.

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A believer in the essentially political nature of Haiti s tragedy, Fernandez rightly aspires to turn the current crisis into the lever for state building, Haiti s extraction from political isolation, and its maturation into an active member of the regional and world community.

Abuse of power is evil, but power itself is not.

As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said recently in Paris I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

And if we're going to deal with these two great power shifts that I've described, the power shift represented by transition among states, the power shift represented by diffusion of power away from all states, we're going to have to develop a new narrative of power in which we combine hard and soft power into strategies of smart power.

Aron exaggerated the power of reason, while Sartre inflated the power of action.

A smart power strategy does not ignore the tools of soft power.

History Central power stations became economically practical with the development of alternating current power transmission, using power transformers to transmit power at high voltage and with low loss.

That is why so called system liberals, or loyalists who stand for Kremlin backed change, want to control the protest movement and use it as a lever in an ultimate fight with the siloviks (Putin s military and security apparatus).

From People Power to Putin Power

Unusually for a bird, the brown headed nuthatch uses a piece of tree bark as a lever to pry up other bark flakes to look for food the bark tool may then be carried from tree to tree or used to cover a seed cache.

The power of the colonial government was the only power that was changed.

It's the power of we instead of the power of I that drives people to him.

As the efficacy of military power is reduced, so the importance of economic power grows.

At any one time, the net amount of power consumed by the loads on a power system must equal the net amount of power produced by the supplies less the power lost in transmission.

While military power remains important, it is a mistake for any country to discount the role of economic power and soft power.

For them, the key to international power was political power, and the central attribute of political power was a morally informed leadership.