Sentences with phrase «system has no power over»

The system has no power over their transfer, he said.

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Power generator Pacific Energy has reported a 1 per cent fall in profit over the last financial year despite record earnings from its Kalgoorlie Power Systems and hydro - electric businesses.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Unlike many central banks, Canada's monetary authority has little regulatory power over the banking system.

The change, it argued, will result in incomplete information and weaker legal powers for parliamentarians who, under the old system, have better control over where the money will flow and how it will be spent.

Of the more than 300,000 solar power systems the company has installed, the majority are under leases and PPAs and are contracted to generate more than $ 8 billion in customer payments over the next 20 years, and up to $ 4.8 billion more with customer renewals after year 20.

In 2014, nearly twice as many residential solar systems were installed over the year before — and nearly 2,000 Nevadans now have their own solar power, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

Little - understood is that the Fed has vast powers over how the financial system works — credit standards, check - clearing systems, community lending.

Last September, a boutique firm in Washington, called Zerodium, which sells flaws to governments and corporations, announced a $ 1 million bounty for anyone who would turn over an exploit in Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating system — the same operating system used to power the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

How did we arrive at a point where national credit reporting and scoring systems have such power over consumers» lives?

Unchecked corporate cash in the form of political donations and lobbying expenditures has the power to exert undue influence over public policy and regulatory systems and threaten our democracy.

Research has shown that deploying renewable energy over a vast area connected by a transmission system would actually increase reliability and reduce intermittency compared to smaller networks since it would route power from areas where there is sunlight and wind to areas where there isn't.

Where Bitcoin's transaction speeds average 7 transactions per second, new blockchain - based currencies are already approaching thousands of transactions per second; Bitshares claims they can process 100,000 per second.In fact, a newspaper in Winnipeg, Canada, has already begun to use a micropayment system to charge per article for its news content and projects earning over $ 100,000 in digital revenue.Blockchain could tilt the balance of power towards individuals, not publishing powerhouses.As mentioned previously, YouTube and Medium have dramatically increased content creators» access to audiences and established a more democratic, popularity - based promotional scheme.

Greider portrays the economy as a system in which individual people have very little voice or decision - making power over their own lives.

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

Having failed to find that ultimate and changeless principle or system of principles that no doubt can corrupt, Western rationality begins to exult ever more in the power it has gained over physical reality during its long pilgrimage through the inconclusiveness of history.

I can be a bit stubborn when it comes to being sick, I hate admitting that my immune system has let down and usually try to just «power through and get over it.»

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

«The announcer said over the loudspeaker system that there had been a power failure in the building and that it would take 20 minutes to repair,» says Elliott.

Workshop participants identified the tensions and contradictions between the bordered and border-less over the course of their collective endeavour to highlight how human mobility has provoked the reconfiguration — even activation — of political identities and systems of power.

While all of this has been going on, the powers that be who are responsible for the subway system — Governor Andrew Cuomo and recently appointed MTA chairman Joe Lhota — have spent the past few days pointing fingers at Mayor Bill de Blasio over who, exactly, controls the subway.

The last thing such power systems will need will be huge centralised power plants at the end of the grid, not able to switch on and off, and having to be paid back over many years for the huge upfront cost of construction.

Gordon Brown does not have the ultimate power over changes to the pension system, according to the work and pensions secretary.

In other words, politicians should not have power over a process that could well further advantage their position within the system.

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

«Throw as much mud as you can, don't let the issue be discussed openly and frighten the public over the next three weeks into voting to preserve the power the present first - past - the - post system has given you.

Cuomo's role in crafting the state's spending plan provides his primary power over the education system, and it also offers him maximum leverage in negotiating with lawmakers, because he typically has lots of bargaining chips.

State takeover would strip de Blasio of most of his power over low - performing schools, which the mayor has argued would be anathema to the system of mayoral control.

This will provide MPs with the opportunity to debate the current lack of protection for pubs, the fact that local communities have so little say over the future of their local, despite clear «moral ownership» of their local pubs - and will also suggest ways in which the planning system can be changed to ensure that local residents have the powers they need to protect their local pubs.

Cuomo has supported public financing of political campaigns in the past, but has up until this point not included such a system in the state budget proposal — a process that the governor's office has broad power over.

«All ideas of making people feel they have more power and control over government and their lives and the criminal justice system, those are all things we can look at,» he said.

The proposal comes as the mayor and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, continued to squabble over responsibility for paying for repairs to the nation's largest transit system that has seen growing delays, mechanical failures, power outages and even derailments.

The board would have the power over every aspect of the sprawling school system, from budgets to policies to appointments.

The 2013 - 2014 Executive Budget also includes proposals on two economic policy issues which have been a major focus of FPI's work over the years: restoring the purchasing power of the minimum wage and modernizing the Unemployment Insurance system.

Mr. Cuomo used his power over the decennial redistricting process to win some victories in March: He was able to get lawmakers, who wanted him to sign the gerrymandered legislative maps they had drawn, to agree to curb pension benefits for future public workers, to create a more rigorous system for evaluating schoolteachers, and to take the first step toward legalizing a significant expansion of casino gambling.

By increasing competition and giving people the power to make their own choices with their own health care, the American Health Care Act would have been a drastic improvement over the healthcare system Obamacare has left us with.»

Under «mayoral control» of the city's school system, only Mayor Bill de Blasio has the power to dump Chancellor Carmen Fariña over the scandalous graduation of a high school student who all but begged to fail and other instances of grade - fixing.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

«Our process also has an important advantage over battery or gaseous - hydrogen powered vehicle technologies as many of the hydrocarbon products from our reaction are exactly what we use in cars, trucks and planes, so there would be no need to change the current fuel distribution system,» said Frederick MacDonnell, UTA interim chair of chemistry and biochemistry and co-principal investigator of the project.

Over the last 20 years, I've been through nine computers and five operating systems (Osborne [cpm], 286-386-486 [dos - windows], Power Mac [mac os], G3, and G4 [mac osx]-RRB- while I morphed from a science / medical reporter and into an online Web site editor - publisher.

Your electric bill goes up, or the grid goes down... traditional power generation has served us well over the years, but with an aging system and increased demand, relying on it for all our energy needs has drawbacks.

Since its inception over 25 years ago, La Jolla Institute has solely dedicated itself to understanding the far - reaching power of the immune system because we believe that no other biomedical discipline has greater implications for human health than immunology.

«I imagine that the cars of the future will have a battery connected to many capacitors spread throughout the vehicle, which will take over energy supply during high - power demand phases during acceleration for example and ramming up of the air - conditioning system.

Power Endurance System is a brand I have cultivated over my lifetime of fitness.

They were all gung - ho about bringing the original Project CARS over to Wii U. Obviously their initial vision fell completely through the floor, but I really think it has to do with the fact that the console just wasn't selling well, even though it's the system's lack of power that was blamed.

over to Wii U. Obviously their initial vision fell completely through the floor, but I really think it has to do with the fact that the console just wasn't selling well, even though it's the system's lack of power that was blamed.

Much of the contemporary literature on the topic focuses on the domestic factors that enable these competitive authoritarian regimes to stay in power, however I focus on the global ontology, or the character of the world as it actually is, and how it has proved to be very conducive to this type of political system over the past decade.

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

One held that problem policies like zero tolerance, general abuse of administrative power, class size, and concerns over having qualified teachers, etc., all need to be addressed — that, basically, the system needs to be reformed.