Sentences with phrase «more general power»

That is because even if a country does not have a specific law or regulation with the term net neutrality or traffic prioritization they may take decisions if needed from more general powers.

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His funders include the Chinese government, General Motors (gm) and spandex company Yantai, which are all investing in how to build smaller and more flexible power that you can sew, wear, and stretch.

& # 9660 Wind power: As General Electric, Mitsubishi and others considered investing more than $ 630 million in the U.K.'s offshore wind industry, Canada was casting the whole idea into doubt.

But Rob Crooke, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, explained that because the 3D Xpoint memory combines some of the elements of NAND and DRAM, you can have a lot of it (10 times more than current DRAM) and it's non-volatile, which means that when the power goes off the data stored in it will stick around.

In theory, Trump firing Rosenstein would allow him to put in place a new deputy attorney general more amenable to Trump's position — and more likely to either curtail Mueller's investigatory powers or end the investigation altogether.

It appears that the PCs are both understating the condition of disrepair of hospitals and in some cases, using their power to move projects up the priority list in order to benefit the political interests of PC caucus members at the expense of the health of those living in more needy communities» said Notley In a written response to a request from NDP Leader Rachel Notley, the Auditor General has committed to an audit of the government's capital planning process.

Much of this, Cornell said, came out of a Cincinnatus view toward guns and defense — a reference to the legendary Roman general who, according to the story (and possibly myth), went back to farming instead of attempting to seize more power after he led the Romans to victories.

The Hogan administration is asking the General Assembly for more power to attract companies to Maryland — and to keep those that are here from leaving.

But perhaps more powerful was the general fear of being out of step with a rising power that seemed to have history on its side.

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?

Halphen's argument runs like this: (1) by the end of the eighth century, Charlemagne had emerged as master of the West; (2) under these conditions, it was to be expected that a more general title should be added to his collection, to reflect his full power, when local conditions permitted; (3) local conditions in Rome in December, 800, demanded the intervention of an Emperor; and (4) Byzantine imperial power was at that time temporarily disrupted and incapable of intervening in Rome.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

But he also had a more general aim of establishing a Franciscan presence in the area, and the fact that the Franciscans are still the custodians of the Holy Places is an eloquent testimony to lasting power of his influence.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have used their legal powers to change the published General Synod... More

The reason for this flexibility of method is not a desire to be «liberal» either in the sense of an optimistic vision of human nature in general or in the more restrictive methodological sense of being optimistic about the power of one's critical tools.

Statistically, atheists and agnostics have more formal education than others and therefore inherently have a wider breadth of general knowledge and are more likely to question EVERYTHING, which makes it harder for them to believe in a higher power.

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

Religious functionaries lose some of their unique claim to power as a result of competition from secular professionals and in conjunction with a more general rise in education and values stressing individual discretion.

If these more general understandings are inadequate, then the correlative concept of power will also be truncated or inadequate in some other way.

The call here is for a more concrete determination of the general formula — an identification of the amount and / or specific varieties of power a being would have to possess in order to count as having the logical limit of power.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

It includes discussion of some of the submissions to the misuse of market power Senate review which have identified the decision as problematic for small business as well as more general discussion on some of the submissions.

The athlete will demonstrate a little more power, speed, and general aptitude for their sport, such as hitting a baseball harder.

, this wing has always been more concerned with controlling the levers of power within the party rather than those gained in a general election.

Often, that doesn't materialise, but in general, a country is much more likely to maintain the status quo as long as the same person remains in power.

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

At a more general level, the international system is returning to great power security competition, now that multipolarity is replacing the post-Cold War unipolar moment, and how that future will turn out is uncertain — but one thing that the last 67 years have shown is that nuclear deterrence is a fairly effective way of stopping major power security tension turning into all - out conventional war.

The introduction of metro mayors, on the other hand, was part of the Conservative Party manifesto ahead of the 2015 general election, and part of their wider plan to devolve more powers from national government to city regions.

The benefits of maintaining stability to safeguard the remaining years in power slowly diminish as the case for the alternative - attacking one's coalition colleagues in a bid to win an overall majority at the next general election - becomes more and more compelling.

With a general election even more reliant on media outlets, including bloggers and tweeters, Lance Price's Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers v The Media, is especially apposite.

Governor Fayose, who said the Information Minister was fast assuming the position of the «Liar - General» of the federation, having lied to gain power and still lying to sustain it, pointed out that «more than 20 months after he claimed that 55 Nigerians stole over N1.34 trillion from the country's treasury from 2006 to 2013, Lai Mohammed is yet to tell Nigerians who the 55 people are.»

William Hague said any party that did not link such reforms to more powers for Scotland could pay at the General Election.

As the Donald «Dontay» Ivy case hangs in limbo, Albany County DA David Soares appears to have more options than ceding power to New York's attorney general — if that's what he wants to do.

What's more, the lunatic fringe of politicians and their apple - polishers should note that the fact that they are seeking power, or are aiming to cling onto power, does not give them an audacity to engage in electoral violence, before, during and after the 2016 general elections.

In the 2010 General Election Labour got 8,609,527 votes — far more than the Liberal Democrats who share power with the Tories.

AG Eric Schneiderman joined more than a dozen state attorneys general in sending a letter to Trump calling for him to ignore «misguided advice» and continue federal support for the Clean Power Plan

Schneiderman's new power has stoked some instant controversy, and provides another chapter in his dealings with Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat whose relationship with the man who succeeded him as attorney general has been more competitive than constructive.

Martins also argues instead of creating an independent inspector general's office, with multiple employees — as Democrats have called for — Nassau should give the existing county commissioner of investigations and the procurement director more power to conduct independent investigations.

In his final speech before the U.N. General Assembly, President Obama conceded that the United States and other world powers have limited ability to solve the most profound challenges facing the world, while calling for a «course correction» for globalization to ensure that nations don't retreat into a more sharply divided world.

With such worldview, giving more power to said enlightened elite is a Good Thing in general.

The New York state attorney general in particular has more legal power than in other states, notably in business matters.

The general rule for congressional races is that the party out of power wages the more negative campaign — which, for Republicans this year, is translating into an ad ratio of about 80 percent negative to 20 percent positive.

If this worked, Europe would be better connected to the people and to national politics; and the European Parliament would spend less time pressing for more powers for Brussels in general and for itself in particular.

The prosecutorial discretion power is so strong that it has actually become much more effective in forcing leadership change than a general election where political opponents seek to unseat them at the ballot box.

But now sources have told Kramer that if any good is to come out of the drumbeat of corruption charges last week, which also ensnared state Sen. Malcolm Smith and City Councilman Dan Halloran, it will be the passage of legislation that gives local district attorneys and the state attorney general more power to nab crooked officials themselves.

More than two - fifths, 42 %, supported a coalition after the next general election to keep the Conservatives out of power, but 36 % rejected the prospect.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has noted on several occasions that he stands ready and willing to do more public corruption cases, but that would require a referral from the governor, which is something Cuomo - while eager to get more power when he was AG himself - is now reluctant to grant.

Speaking ahead of the vote Lord Goldsmith, the Labour former attorney general, said: «If this House has a responsibility it is, I would respectfully suggest, to ensure that we do not give the executive more power than is necessary in order to achieve their objectives.

«This victory gives the IDC more clout and is, at the very least, a hedge to put themselves in a comfortable position following the general when we'll know what sort of coalition will have to be put together for them to remain in power,» Thies said.