These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.

When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.

In her experience, people in positions of power or people in finance or engineering do not tend to like the sound of the word.

From her description, Chinese medicine sounded as if it had magic power that worked wonders.

In the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success.

In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country in the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the organization.

Maybe car manufacturers should have some responsibility in limiting the power of their engines.

One of the student inventors, Camellia Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.

Research findings increasingly show the power of food to treat or reverse diseases, but that does not mean that diet alone is always the solution, or that every illness can benefit substantially from dietary changes.

They can recognize power and know how to use it.

without upgrades and new capacity, bridges, roads and power systems are unable to cope with expanding populations.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( ' , 地熱).

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

Psychological research shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers.

In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.

Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.

To test the polluting power of fulmars, researchers collected samples of deposit from eleven ponds on Devon Island.

Small wonder that an Indian legend described Devils Tower as being formed by supernatural powers.

Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.

Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

Chetty has not yet issued a comprehensive analysis of the relative predictive power of each of these factors.

But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.

According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (誘惑) an admissions committee.

Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, again) of diversity―a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education

In the developed world, women lag behind men in pay and political power.

Give women more political power

Energy to power machinery, both on the farm and in the storage and processing facilities, adds to the energy total, which currently represents about 3.1% of annual global energy consumption.

Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination.

Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power

We learn from the passage that in today's world, whoever monopolizes the oil market will be able to exercise extraordinary power.

Goals with financial rewards have strong motivational power.

In a recent essay in the?New York Review of Books,?Robert Darn ton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.

This settlement hands Google the power - but only with the agreement of individual rights holders?–?to exploit its database of out-of-print books

make full use of the power of its search engine

Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so.

Sting in the tail Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models

He chose colors and styles known to communicate power and influence.

They are believed to communicate power and influence

By describing the destructive power of earthquakes.

"Supplying power to trains in this way would offer the shortest distance from well to wheels," he says, "with the least amount of energy lost."

He and other scientists say there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels: generating energy with renewables or embracing nuclear power.

Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.

In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.

In reflection, my firm belief in the power of the brand was naive, not to mention a bit snobby.

More of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.

Power tool maker DeWalt partners with companies, such as Lowes and Napa Auto Parts, to collect old tools at their stores for recycling.

Rarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal (地熱).

The combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus

They may have a home to shelter themselves, but it does not have power supply, a telephone or plumbing.

They worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to push its members into behavior that is foolish and even dangerous.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline -powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light