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SO not one democrat was in power at the time?

That's what got us into this mess, and it was facilitated by both parties, and mainly by whoever was / is in power at the congressional level.

He went to Louvain where the conservatives were in power at the University and were delighted to have a burning, with the bonfire lit by the Public Executioner in the market place.

«If we get all these processes right, there is no reason why the PDP will not be in power at the centre in 2019.

While acknowledging pension costs would remain high in the immediate future, the city controller suggested they would start to get better by 2016, at which point Liu himself could be in power at City Hall.

As I said earlier on, if the party were to be in power at the federal government, probably any kind of chairman can do the work.

I know that after the war and in the process of punishing those who took active part in it, a lot of injustices have been perpetrated but we have also had opportunities as southerners to correct some of these things when our people were in power at the federal level but they failed to do anything.

«I want to assure that in 2019, APC will still be in power at the national level.

It is one of the largest, and best preserved, castles in the Czech Republic primarily because of its remote location and because the families that had possession over the years were very well connected with whatever entities were in power at the time.

King Alfonso XII, who was in power at that time, lost a son.

For example, Abad recently constructed an installation based on the figures of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, the first couple of the Philippines from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, who were in power at the time of the artist's birth.

She said: «The Government collection is for everyone and regardless of who is in power at any time the collection can be enjoyed by everybody for future generations... My donation is not solely to David Cameron and 10 Downing Street, as pompous as it sounds it is actually to the nation.»

Not exact matches

«We are not capable of understanding the size and the power of the Internet,» says Mitra, who is now a professor at Newcastle University in the U.K. «What I think I'm finding with these groups of children is that they plunge into this ocean, and they can swim.»

In any relationship you have, there is a chemistry and a power dynamic at play.

For most people the battery will last long enough but, if you're a power user like me, be prepared to plug them in at least once during the day to sneak some extra juice.

«The potion is not a panacea — it does not have a magic power against all diseases,» said a researcher experienced in cockroach - related medicines at the Institute of Materia Medica at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) in Beijing.

Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016 about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors as his reform program is widely regarded as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.

Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the sitIn 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the sitin less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

HANOI, April 26 - PetroVietnam Power Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired power plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on ThurPower Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired power plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on ThurPower, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired power plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thurpower plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thursday.

The supercomputing force that will power Western Australia's scientific researchers is fast - taking shape at the new Pawsey Centre in Technology Park.

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

It's estimated that the technology has boosted revenue by 2 billion yuan ($ 315 million) at one power grid where the technology has been in use for several years.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

It's also helpful to remember the purple power stone is left on the planet of Xandar in the protection of the Nova Corps at the film's end.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

According to a March 2011 data analysis by reporter Phil McKenna at New Scientist, dams may be among the riskier power sources in the world.

In Germany, researchers at the University of Stuttgart have been working on what they describe as a «high performance,» electrically - powered two - seater aircraft called the e-Genius.

Now they're showing signs of being drunk on such power,» wrote M.G. Siegler, a partner at Alphabet's GV, in a blog post.

In weekly coaching sessions, there was plenty of «resistance, frustration,» and «people upset and angry» at having to rescind the power and workflow that in some cases they had spent long careers developinIn weekly coaching sessions, there was plenty of «resistance, frustration,» and «people upset and angry» at having to rescind the power and workflow that in some cases they had spent long careers developinin some cases they had spent long careers developing.

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

It's no coincidence that the era in which Nike was at the height of its cultural power was also the one in which the Niketown retail experience verged on the sacred.

The company's immense power, it seems, meant never having to say it was sorry, at least not in Europe.

This tip isn't for everyone, but for some high - powered women a little separation from their phones first thing in the morning is key to kicking off the day at a humane pace.

When I ask Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid where she voted in last November's elections, which brought her to power, she responds as if my question is dumb: «From my computer at home.»

This in turn has led power companies, as well as tech startups, to look at how this new low cost energy storage source could be used in new ways.

The best way to understand the power of rebranding is to look at examples of companies that have done it successfully in the past:

With the Conservatives in power, there really is much more of a belief that health care should really be just left to the provinces, and the extent to which the feds are involved if at all is really to support the Canada Health Act through the transfer of funding, but not really to look at whether or not [the act] is actually being fulfilled.

We at Gong.io publish data from analyzing sales calls with our AI - powered conversation intelligence platform to figure out what works (and what doesn't) in sales conversations.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

A lawyer representing Schrems, James Doherty, told the court that a referral to the European Court was «unnecessary or at least premature» as the Irish regulator had not fully investigated the complaint and had not used all tools in its power to restrict data flows where consumers» rights were threatened.

The kind of deep learning that powers Cogito is great at very rapid judgments — identifying faces in a photo or translating text — but it's a long way from mastering reasoning, intuition, or strategy.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

The pricing, as Sony Computer Entertainment group chief executive Andrew House affirmed at a press conference at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, is important given what the other emergent VR powers are charging for their hardware.

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

I had the best seat in the house to watch that event, and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets — there were no PT boats there... There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

Urbaniak says there's a power balance at play in just about every social interaction between the person who's giving attention and the person who's receiving attention.

Ryan Bethencourt, program director and venture partner at San Francisco's Indie.Bio, the nation's first synthetic - biology accelerator, says that when one applies cost reductions to Moore's Law (the concept that digital technology will increase in power at an exponential rate), the landscape of business opportunities is limitless.

While the cabinet members felt at the time that they were seriously involved in the war effort, the unnamed former minister, in retrospect, said he realized how little power and influence they actually wielded.