Tax collectors used to be Public Enemy Number One now bankers have usurped that role.

In 1527, the Mạc dynasty usurped the throne when the Lê dynasty was restored in 1533, they still had to compete for power with the Mạc dynasty during the period known as Southern and Northern Dynasties.

That right cannot be usurped or confiscated either by the international community or by any State or international organization.

However, a number of major newspapers in several countries questioned their motives and some hinted at self appointed nobility and a usurped historical identity.

The United Nations must not allow, as has appeared to be the case in recent years, any part of its mandate to be usurped.

More important and grave is the fact that Israel is continuing to build its illegal wall on usurped Palestinian territory, including in East Jerusalem.

Almost inevitably, or so it seems, the idea of Pakistan has been usurped, which is why Pakistan s friends have so often become its masters, and why Pakistan continues to remain fragile, insecure, and tense.

It is abundantly clear that the Greek Cypriot administration is engaged in an ill conceived policy based on the continuation of the usurped Republic of Cyprus with the eventual goal of extending its illegal authority to Northern Cyprus.

FSRP reiterated its confidence in the Puerto Rican people's ability to fight successfully for the recognition of its rights to self determination and independence and for the full restitution of its sovereign authority, usurped by the United States Congress.

Further, it should be kept in mind that, of the 27,000 court decisions that have been handed down in the last six years on the restitution of usurped property to its rightful owners, only 300 have actually been carried out.

To say that, over time, other bodies, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the specialized agencies, have usurped the powers and role of the Economic and Social Council is a defeatist attitude.

Local power, central power, now, people power.

Putin has usurped authority not just from his more knowledgeable colleagues, but also from the prime minister, who has traditionally served as Russia s chief economic policymaker. Indeed, since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has been all but irrelevant.

From People Power to Putin Power

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.

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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.