Sentences with phrase «highest halls of power»

It looks like common sense has come even to the highest halls of power (see interview and transcript here via Patent Progress).

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When he accepts this point of view he is in a position to receive help from other alcoholics and from the Higher Power — God (Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking [New York: Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1952], p. 230; bold face added).

The tussle for power between Westminster, town halls and the «English» — that group of long - ignored campaigners whose calls for an English parliament will now be given a serious hearing — will be a no - holds - barred fight, precisely because the stakes are so high.

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday night hosted a high - powered meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the new Banquet hall of the presidential villa, Abuja.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

Director: John McTiernan Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carillo, Kevin Peter Hall The story: A team of high - powered mercenaries stumble across an enemy they can't destroy: a freaky alien with crazy weapons and invisibility powers.

The hydroelectric power station at Arruns: perched two thousand metres high with a series of halls and tunnels burrowed seventy metres underground.

Players take the role of Martin «Marty» Michael Hall, an average high - school student who has just been granted an incredible power — a power that ultimately leads him to attract the ire of the world's most notorious villain, Commander Hood!

Players take the role of Martin «Marty» Michael Hall, an average high - school student who has just been granted an incredible power.

In 1995 Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron were appointed to convert the Bankside Power Station for this purpose; their vision was structured around the building's original features — a magnificent turbine hall of 35 metres high and 152 metres long, as well as a boiler house and central chimney.

The gantry crane that once served the power station remains high overhead in the Turbine Hall as a tool for moving large - scale sculpture such as the commissioned works by Louise Bourgeois that now fill the east end of this space.

He revels in crushing the high scores of all the newbies vying with him for the video game hall of fame, and he reserves his evenings for gazing at the stars through his mondo, high - powered telescope.