So Vladimir Putin came to power at a very convenient moment for any ruler when the people are quiescent.

Putin, after more than a decade in power, has lost the support of his own, usually quiescent citizens, who have had rather limited experience with democracy.

All of these cases involved the mushrooming of public protest by long quiescent constituencies with no prior record of coordinated action.

Perhaps the risk that a Greek debt restructuring would cause a financial meltdown was always minimal, and quiescent markets were to be expected.

What makes their struggle loom so large for a normally quiescent Egyptian public is partly that nearly all 9,000 judges are standing fast in solidarity.

And, while his decision to return to the presidency has vexed the most dynamic elements of Russia s urban population, the rest of the country s citizens remain unhappy but quiescent.

Unless Syria s rulers, like other leaders in the Arab world, begin to appreciate that freedom is a fundamental human right, even the most quiescent people s patience may wear dangerously thin.

No such government today, I said, could or would tolerate any prolonged period in which the unemployment rate was kissing 10 and inflation was quiescent without doing something major about it.

By addressing immigrant women and by viewing them as potential leaders, rather than as quiescent potential maids or service workers KVINFO is enabling their families to witness the benefits of an open civil society in their own lives.

Local power, central power, now, people power.

If what has been cut is not restored, Cameron and his ideological heirs will create a nation of quiescent citizens who, like their US counterparts, are better suited to a society whose official policies are more directly aligned to the will of corporate interests.

From People Power to Putin Power

If the IMF were to ease the terms on its Greek loans, it would likely face fierce protests from its less wealthy debtors and risk compromising its status as senior creditor an outcome that even the Fund s largely quiescent Board of Governors is unlikely to accept.

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

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

We will need new technologies to mobilize large scale solar power, wind power, and geothermal power.

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

References External links IEEE Power Engineering Society Power Engineering International Magazine Articles Power Engineering Magazine Articles American Society of Power Engineers, Inc. National Institute for the Uniform Licensing of Power Engineer Inc.

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

In physics and engineering, surface power density or sometimes simply specific power is power per unit area.

Power especially destructive power implies the need for transparency.

Power corrupts, and financial power corrupts the financial system.

In Russia, power is money and money is power.

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

His goal is vast power for Rupert Murdoch, political 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.

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.

that's a huge power generating capability, a mobile power generating capability.

These examples show that hard power and soft power go together.

Power Off

Power Settings

Poppy Power

WikiLeaky Power

Girl Power!

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.

Solar power plants in Northern Africa could supply power to Western Europe.

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

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.

Soft power is rarely sufficient, but it is often crucial to combine soft and hard power to have an effective smart power strategy.

Economic resources can produce soft power behavior as well as hard military power.

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

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