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I was all set to do it and I was thinking, "Aw man," I was just going to impose upon the powers that be, and measure the speed of light.
When the new constitution was adopted in 1787, the structure of the infant government of the United States called for three separate branches, each with their own powers, and a system of checks and balances.
The passengers on the second bus are assigned powers of the next prime, 5.
The following bus, powers of 7.
Each bus follows: powers of 11, powers of 13, powers of 17, etc.
Since each of these numbers only has 1 and the natural number powers of their prime number base as factors, there are no overlapping room numbers.
And, unfortunately, the powers in the Eurozone, in the Eurogroup, chose to maintain denial.
They embrace the powers and the opportunities and the limitations of the world.
For example, add up the numbers in each row, and you'll get successive powers of two.
Napoléon's new powers were derived from the constitution that was approved by a popular vote in the Consulate."
Peace was secured by 1802, and other European powers recognized the new French Regime.
What if we could have these same digital powers in our world?
Your software, Linux, is in millions of computers, it probably powers much of the Internet.
The vascular system that powers the body are the oil and gas pipelines and electricity grids.
And you can see that Russia, by the way, is the least connected of major powers in the international system.
Can connectivity overcome the patterns of rivalry among the great powers of the Far East?
Now, I only later came to understand that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man-made, by a succession of colonial powers and corrupt governments who had anything but the interests of Sonny Boy at heart.
It's not like they require special powers to pull off.
But I used my powers of deduction and recognized that chardonnay and sauvignon blanc were two separate types of white wine, and so I told her that I would take the chardonnay, because frankly that was the easiest one to pronounce for me.
Perhaps because it was being produced rationally, as if it were plastic, food gained magical or poisonous powers, or both.
James Madison wrote, "If there is any principle more sacred in our Constitution, and indeed in any free constitution, than any other, it is that which separates the legislative, the executive and the judicial powers."
The powers that be had negotiated a brief truce so that soldiers could go out, collect bodies from no-man's-land in between the trench lines.
And all it took here was hours for these men to develop a completely new category of "us," all of us in the trenches here on both sides, dying for no damn reason, and who is a "them," those faceless powers behind the lines who were using them as pawns.
The unassuming Peter Parker, the wallflower who's picked on and misunderstood, gets bitten by a radioactive spider that gives him extraordinary powers and extraordinary responsibilities.
The thing about the separation of powers is that it did then and it does now, drive governance to the center.
When Mike was killed, I remember the powers that be trying to use fear as a weapon.
And I said, "I'm sorry, my powers as a poet and philosopher only go so far.
And these can be a lot of different things, but roughly, a sense of alienation, a sense of isolation, questioning your own identity, but also feeling that your in-group is under attack, and your in group might be based on a nationality or an ethnicity or a religion, and feeling that larger powers around you are doing nothing to help.
It powers not only light, but also laptops, phones, internet connection, a fan or a TV.
His storytelling powers had first been recognized when he was on the circuit in Illinois.
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