Good rhetorical skills help to generate soft power.

Old parties lost power, which was a good thing.

Soft power is not good per se , and it is not always better than hard power.

Historically, rising states used smart power strategies to good avail.

Some people worry that Obama might be good for American soft power, but not for its hard power.

Nasrallah s power base is now a hostage of Hezbollah s good behavior.

This is a good story, full of human drama and power politics.

The good news is that its power is only just being realized.

Nonetheless, contrary to popular perception, nuclear power has a good overall safety record.

Consider a ruler who comes to power with good intentions and great abilities.

To make this formula work, however, requires a good deal of soft power.

Say , It is not in my power to cause you either harm or good ?

Say , I have no power to bring you any harm or good of my own accord .

A good narrative is a great source of soft power, and the first rule that fiction writers learn about good narrative is to show, not tell.

But, just as with nuclear power plants, progress can go awry in the absence of good regulation.

If the environmental agency can't decide that the power lines are good for the environment, then there's no way to bring the power from the wind farms to the city.

Yet the mantle of a regional power sometimes requires using that leverage for the greater good of the region.

Lord of Power ( And Rule ) , Thou givest power to whom Thou pleasest , and Thou strippest off power from whom Thou pleasest Thou enduest with honour whom Thou pleasest , and Thou bringest low whom Thou pleasest In Thy hand is all good . Verily , over all things Thou hast power .

Many of these companies are based in Europe, so a good deal of power rests ultimately with the European Parliament.

Russians, it seems, can only feel good about themselves if they are contesting the world s great power head to head.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ

The US had its few short years as a hyper power, and it did neither America nor the world much good.

This formula underpinned the rapid consolidation of good government, based on rigorous standards of official conduct that limited the elite s arbitrary power.

Say to them , The Truth has come and will endure . Falsehood has no power to originate any good , nor to reproduce it .

Say to them , The Truth has come and will endure . Falsehood has no power to originate any good , nor to reproduce it .

Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same

The good news is that Rumsfeld is beginning to realize that the struggle against terrorism cannot be won by hard military power alone.

And we've got to say, what good is all of our intellectual and political and economic power and I'm really thinking intellectual power in this room if we can't use it to bring slavery to an end?

Local power, central power, now, people power.

If this forces America back towards what the international relations scholar Joseph Nye calls soft power and multilateral diplomacy, it may well be a good thing.

Even Russian President Vladimir Putin, the autocratic leader of a crumbling second rate power, manages to put on a good show compared to America s tarnished president.

If Allah visits you with affliction , none can remove it except He and if He touches you with good , indeed , He has power over all things .

If Allah visits you with affliction , none can remove it except He and if He touches you with good , indeed , He has power over all things .

Okay. He's pretty good. Yeah. Good, good, good.

However, something much less tangible, but a good deal more valuable in the twenty first century, may be more important than any of them India s soft power.

A good illustration is Denmark, which early on provided huge subsidies for wind power, building thousands of inefficient turbines around the country from the 1980 s onwards.

Take a good look as I'm pissing you off. This image provoked the nausea, because it demonstrated the feeling of impunity and all the power he holds.

Say , Do you worship something other than God , that has no power to do you harm or good ? God alone is the All Hearing and All Knowing .

Say , Do you worship something other than God , that has no power to do you harm or good ? God alone is the All Hearing and All Knowing .

We are pleased to note that the IAEA assisted programme to set up a nuclear desalination plant at the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant is making good progress.

If God sends you harm , there is no one but He who can take it away and if He bring you good , surely He has power over everything .

Should Allah touch you with affliction , there is none to remove it but He and should He touch you with good , He has the power to do everything .

Whether ye publish a good deed or conceal it or cover evil with pardon , verily Allah doth blot out ( sins ) and hath power ( in the judgment of values ) .