Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God.

On a panel entitled The Rising Powers and Global Governance, Patriota referred to the energy discussion and noted that the rising powers should remember that the established powers are not sinking powers.

The fact that the administering Powers were not meeting their obligations needed to be reported.

the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

Along that tortuous route, the world's major powers are bound to be offended, probably quite regularly.

Before the Western powers, Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong to be returned to China.

This meant that for most signatory powers, no new ships could be begun until the 1930s.

We believe that development programmes should be endowed with preventive powers to ensure security and safety.

Citizens want powers to be clearly defined and decisions to be taken openly in a way that they can understand.

the narratives that we use now tend to be the rise and fall of the great powers.

The head of state has extensive powers, which alone indicates that Medvedev will be a strong president.

And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

It was to be hoped that Tokelau would become a beacon for other Territories and administering Powers.

History teaches us that rising powers inevitably compete with status quo leading powers, and that this conflict often leads to war.

In preparation for the renegotiation, UK leaders are conducting a comprehensive audit of EU laws in order to identify powers that could be reclaimed. This could have a positive outcome, highlighting powers that other member states agree should be returned to national governments.

Japan, Australia, Germany, or Canada might be just such powers.

On this view, the privatizations of the 1990 s were a scam serving only the powers that be.

But they cannot be understood in isolation from the larger multipolar system of major powers that is forming.

And Western powers would need to be sure that their weapons would not fall into potentially unfriendly hands.

The German example shows just how different occupation powers can be.

Some or all such powers may be limited or effectively unlimited.

The rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system in order to ensure that they will be active supporters.

Their parents, still influenced by life under the repressive autocracies from which they fled, tend to be submissive to the powers that be.

Taking on the powers that be is perhaps the only way to achieve this, however risky it might appear.

One Asian analyst argued that by 2050, there will be three world powers the United States, China, and India.

This could have a positive outcome, highlighting powers that other member states agree should be returned to national governments.

Permanent membership must be extended to other Powers that can make a major contribution to international peace and security.

They still require the leadership of great powers. And it remains to be seen whether this century s great powers will live up to this role.

To achieve this, the reserved powers' of Governors had to be negotiable.

A coalition of the willing that intervenes in an Arab country cannot be composed only of European powers and the US.

The world s rising powers are likely to be increasingly disinclined to accept constraints that they see as American or European tutelage.

Moreover, the international system is increasingly coalescing around national powers that consider military force to be an essential prerequisite of influence.

Local institutions must be representative, and powers must be securely transferred in order to achieve effective decentralization.

That world, however, will be one in which Israel can no longer count on feelings of Holocaust guilt to influence major powers.

As that did not take place, no powers are likely to be transferred until 2009, when the next Congress is elected.8

But the nominees for those offices betrayed the intentions of all three EU powers honorable and competent though President Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Catherine Ashton may be, they are perfectly unknown and thus pose no threat to the powers that be in Berlin, Paris, and London.

On 7 February 2006 a democratically elected Government will be invested with full powers.

That helped European countries dominate the century as expansionist colonial powers.

Elected leaders in these countries face institutional constraints parliaments that check the powers of the executive and courts that check the powers of both on their ability to shape policy.

Moreover, it must have centralized banking supervisory policies, with strong powers to manage bank crises and to liquidate banks that cannot be rescued.

Returning to national governments rule making powers that could be used to impose criteria aimed at excluding others would endanger the entire market.

Whether Socrates humility was sincere or a secret joke at the expense of the powers that be (before said powers put him to death after tiring of his irreverence), the point is that the beginning of wisdom lies in the recognition of how little we really know.

To succeed, though, it must be recast to include entities other than the great powers.

Formal and informal contacts between the Special Committee and the administering Powers must be continued.

It is not just that all the great powers have nuclear weapons the problem, from Iran s perspective, is that lesser powers particularly neighboring states such as Pakistan and Israel have them.