Since he possessed more power in an interdependent universe of living beings and dead spirits, the emperor had to use it for the benefit of the living.

Since the 1980s issues of power, such as those examined in Eric Wolf's Europe and the People Without History, have been central to the discipline.

Since military issues were not a government priority, Afonso established the state's administration and centralized power on himself.

Since independence the party system has been dominated by the Botswana Democratic Party ( BDP ), which has never lost power since independence.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term " Big Brother " has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

Since their coming to power in 1997, controversies affecting the Labour Government such as David Blunkett's affair with Spectator editor Kimberly Fortier and financial scandals involving senior ministers and officials shifted the focus to sleaze within the Labour Party.

Since businesses make money and money leads to political power, business will inevitably use their power to influence governments.

Since the 12th century, courts have had parallel and co-equal authority to make law -- " legislating from the bench " is a traditional and essential function of courts, which was carried over into the U. S. system as an essential component of the " judicial power " specified by Article III of the U. S. constitution.

Since the Dictator exercised his own authority, he did not suffer this limitation, which was the cornerstone of the office's power.

Since the surfaces of a wet clutch can be slippery ( as with a motorcycle clutch bathed in engine oil ), stacking multiple clutch discs can compensate for the lower coefficient of friction and so eliminate slippage under power when fully engaged.

Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.

Since 1978, the Communist Party has attempted to institutionalize transitions of power and consolidate its internal structure.

Since the physical behavior of singularities is unknown, if singularities can be observed from the rest of spacetime, causality may break down, and physics may lose its predictive power.

Since it would be impossible for the Bahá ' í Faith to unite the world if it were itself disunited, the role of the covenant as the guarantor of the unity of the Bahá ' í community becomes inextricably linked with the goal of world unity: " It is evident that the axis of oneness of the world of humanity is the power of the Covenant and nothing else.

Since being able to choose any resource type allows more building power, gold rivers are either marked with number token of only 2 or 3 dots and / or are far away from starting positions to offset this.

Since there was no longer the countervailing power of the papacy and since the Church of England was a creature of the state and had become subservient to it, this meant that there was nothing to regulate the powers of the king, and he became an absolute power.

Since that time monasticism has been a power among the people and not without its influence on the course of events.

Since such radiation can produce severe damage to life at powers that produce very little heating, it is considered far more dangerous ( in terms of damage-produced per unit of energy, or power ) than the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Since Sancho died unmarried and childless, all of his power passed to his brother Alfonso.

Since 2000, the Military has had a sometimes tense relationship with the Qarase government, and has strongly opposed its plans to establish a Commission with the power to compensate victims and pardon perpetrators of the coup.

Since 1982, two thirds of the community's power has been supplied by wind turbines, and a third by diesel generators.

Since the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932, the party has been in power for 61 of the last 79 years.

Since the areas for science to investigate are theoretically infinite, the issue then arises as to what science should attempt to question or find out.

Since Steve McGarrett was also a commander in the Naval Reserve, he sometimes used their resources to help investigate and solve crimes.

Since 1960 Johns has worked closely with Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc ( ULAE ) in a variety of printmaking techniques to investigate and develop existing compositions.

Since the late 1980s, there have been several attempts to investigate the possibility of harvesting energy from lightning.

Since Heine was not very religious in outlook he soon lost interest, but he also began to investigate Jewish history.

Since December 1990 the town has been home to the Elliot Lake Research Field Station, established by Laurentian University to investigate environmental radioactivity.

Since the side effects mefloquine can cause have not been fully defined, and with no apparent incentive for the current manufacturers to further investigate mefloquine, the drug may be discarded.

Since Tracey is actually Lavinia's gardener, he is naturally called in the next morning to investigate the damage the scuffle with Brendan caused to the garden.

Since its inception the ICAC has worked tirelessly to change the public's perception that bribes and kickbacks are an expected and normal part of everyday life, and to reassure citizens that if they face a demand for an illegal payment that the ICAC will be there to investigate.

Since the late 1990s, there have been a series of tribunals set up to investigate corruption in Dublin's planning process.

Since then she has continued to write fiction and publish essays on visual art but also on diverse interdisciplinary subjects that investigate the intersections among philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience.

Since in 1970, Bengali Chief Justice Hamoodor Rahman published the reports of Hamoodur Rahman Commission, formed to investigate the failure and fall of East-Pakistan.

Since his appointment, Miller has vowed to reduce the number of prisoners in Abu Ghraib, adhere to military laws as well as the Geneva Convention, investigate allegations of abuse, and reform the Iraqi prison system.

Since the mid-1990s these more sophisticated tree-and network-based phylogenetic methods have been used to investigate the relationships between languages and to determine approximate dates for proto-languages.

Since his death his influence has grown considerably and now recognized as the first to systematically investigate the mechanisms underlying instrumental conditioning.

Since the Enterprise is not scheduled to rendezvous for five days, Kirk decides to send a science team composed of Science Officer Mr. Spock, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, Chief Engineer Scott, and four other specialists from the crew out in the # 7 shuttlecraft, Galileo, to investigate the formation.

Since the GAO is accountable only to the legislative branch, it is in a unique position to investigate the military ; no other agency can audit Federal departments with the same degree of independence from the President.

Since then over 40 epidemiological studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between circumcision and HIV infection.

Since its founding in 2003, it investigate 21 lawmakers, only one of them a Democrat " ( Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, in a complaint that also targeted Republican Sen. Bill Frist, then Senate Majority Leader ).

Since that time, Mayor Eddie Pérez and former House Speaker James Amann continued to investigate the feasibility of a new downtown arena, with Mayor Perez making statements to tear down the XL Center and replace it with the new arena as recently as March 2008.

Since Loose-Wiles claim was not based on a registered mark, they often had to investigate when and where the other company first used the word to determine which company had first claim so as not to lose their right to the name " Sunshine " for their own products.

Since Homer never told about his painful memory of the corpse to anyone, the Simpsons realise that corpse is still in the old quarry and decide to investigate.

Since the introduction of the Welfare Reform Act 2007, councils can now independently investigate a number of Social Security benefits.

Since the war, she has continued to investigate Human Rights standards maintained by the troops in Iraq, during the occupation of the country.