China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

The corresponding alcohol compound cathine is a less powerful stimulant.

There is more fear today in the West, but also a little less hope in Asia.

Russia s economic influence in Afghanistan is far less robust, but it is growing.

The campaign reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength.

Because they know they are less potent, particularly in demographic and economic terms, Russians feel they have to do more.

The United States, where opposition to such investments has been stronger, accounts for less than 10 .

The same result could be achieved, with less cost to Germany, if Germany chose to behave as a benevolent hegemon.

And, as Joseph Nye has written, Russia is a superpower in decline, while China and (less markedly) the others are on the rise.

According to other views, a much smaller market share, as low as 8 per cent, could suffice for a retailer to have market power.

That is 500 times the power of the 7.0 that hit Port au Prince 500 times the power, yet only under a thousand casualties.

You and I may depend on each other, but if I depend on you less than you do on me, my bargaining power is increased.

Yet we need to set to work on a plan for deploying a viable multinational force to help secure peace there, or at the very least sustain its people.

Because the food was made smaller, but not less tough, the human jaw shrank too much to adequately fit all of the teeth.

And India s workforce has been growing at nearly 2 annually in the last decade, while China s grew at less than 1 .

Business elites were not any less politically powerful back then. But they used their influence to advance an agenda that was broadly in the national interest.

It is disturbing, to say the least, that the most cogent refutations of bald faced lies no longer make any impression.

The Madonna like status of Cory Aquino in the Philippines was inspiring in the heady days of People Power, but did little to bolster the institutions of a secular democracy.

Adding these individuals to those officially classified as unemployed implies that about 15 of potential labor force participants are working less than they want.

Thus, in less than twenty years, Rome had destroyed the power of one of the successor states, crippled another, and firmly entrenched its influence over Greece.

By using jaw muscles only, it could produce a bite force of 805 to 2,148 N, less than the values for alligators (13,000 N), lions (4,167 N), and leopards (2,268 N), but the skull could withstand nearly 55,500 N of vertical force against the tooth row.

On the other hand, if the distance a from the fulcrum to the input force is less than the distance b from the fulcrum to the output force, then the lever reduces the input force.

However, the absolute number of employed and unemployed in this age group is relatively small 858 persons below the age of 20 are in the labour force, and 384 of them are out of work.

The real groundswell this time seems to have come from the close timing and positive outcomes of recent elections in Iraq, Palestine, and to a lesser degree in Saudi Arabia.

Although we are capable of deciding what to do on the basis of rational thought processes, such decisions often prove less powerful than our instinctive feelings in moving us to action.

The common currency s strength reflects problems elsewhere in the world, but a euro exchange rate that would enable the return of confidence and growth is no less elusive for that.

Therefore a force applied to a point farther from the pivot must be less than the force located at a point closer in, because power is the product of force and velocity.

On the other hand, the West s strategy in Afghanistan up to now has also yielded little progress, only strengthening the Taliban day by day.

The eventual disposal of worn out batteries is problematic, and the motors in cordless mowers tend to be less powerful than gasoline motors of the same total weight (including batteries).

Force

WikiLeaky Power

At that time, the defense of my country was about one thing and one thing only how strong was our army, how strong was our air force, how strong was our navy and how strong were our allies.

The European Central Bank s response has been analogous to the Fed s, but less forceful, with monetary policy easier than the headline inflation rate would suggest is appropriate.

To defend its legality in hearings before Germany s Constitutional Court, the ECB itself has argued that the OMT program is a less potent instrument than many believe.

They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

Since 1997, 55 61 of voters have voted for democratic candidates in Legislative Council elections. The last time a slightly smaller election committee met (to choose Leung), less restrictive constraints on candidate selection were in place, and the leader of the Democratic Party was able to be nominated (though he still received less than 7 of the vote).

As economists go, they do not come much mightier or more influential than Paul Krugman.

The Power to Develop

Knowledge is power.

Poppy Power

Girl Power!

Somalia s political future is uncertain at best. Yet we need to set to work on a plan for deploying a viable multinational force to help secure peace there, or at the very least sustain its people.

To the sick France of 1835, Tocqueville counterposed healthy America, where attachment to the idea that people should pursue their self interest was no less strong, but was different.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.