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

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.

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.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.

The proportion of each is determined by the lever rule.

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.

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.

The political power of global megabanks is out of control.

Upon gaining power, he began consolidating control over northern Sumatra.

Israel continues to be the occupying Power exercising control over the area.

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).

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.

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.

Putin s aim was to subject all power to the control of Russia s security forces.

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.

Governments must not be given the power to control its citizens moral code we know that if they had such power, they would misuse it.

Democracy, as a type of politics, is a technology for the control and deployment of power.

For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self control.

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

However, since these petty bureaucrats power is almost absolute, they also control the channels for addressing grievances.

These new forms of money sound like power windows on cars, or remote control for TV sets.

The power ministries interior and defense were kept under the control of figures associated with the former regime.

The role of heroic leadership in war leads to overemphasis of command and control and hard military power.

Through this control and manipulation of surplus resources, the elite's power continued to grow until about AD 950.

Since its inception, the state has been the main vessel of power access to power usually meant control of the state, whether by election or by violent takeover.

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

Simply put, Europe and the US control too much power in the IMF, and their thinking is too dominant.

Nevertheless the pope and the exarch still worked together to control the rising power of the Lombards in Italy.

Stewart was then and continues to be the majority shareholder, commanding 96 control of voting power in the company.

Furthermore, it may undermine women's negotiating power by removing the need for condoms as a form of birth control.

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

And what of the LDP? Having fallen from power, it will lose its control of the redistribution of government funds.

Free from their loyalties to the pharaoh, local rulers began competing with each other for territorial control and political power.

Hamas will control the cabinet and prime minister s office, but Mahmoud Abbas retains all authority and power exercised by Yasir Arafat.

By 1920, the government had virtually lost all power outside its capital and Ahmad Shah had lost control of the situation.

Control of the school system was given to the Executive Council, exercising its power through the New Brunswick Board of Education.

As most of its power is based on trade and control of coastal cities, Demak can be considered as a thalassocracy.

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.

And November s election did not change the balance of power anywhere in the American government Obama remains President, the Republicans remain in control of the House of Representatives, and the Democrats control the Senate.

In fact, savvy autocratic rulers favor less talented successors, because they are easier to groom and control on their way to power.

In response, the kings tried to centralize power over time, but they definitively lost control over Spoleto and Benevento in the attempt.

Effective control over land, air and sea routes around the Gaza Strip meant that legally speaking Israel was still the occupying Power.