Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.

Production is the act of making products or services by applying labor power to the means of production.

The country has not discovered sources of fossil fuels — apart from minor coal deposits — but its mountainous terrain and abundant rainfall have permitted the construction of a dozen hydroelectric power plants, making it self-sufficient in all energy needs, except oil for transportation.

Constitutional laws may often be considered second order rulemaking or rules about making rules to exercise power.

Moore shows that the diffusion of power within a party tends to also lead to a diffusion of power in the parliament in which that party operates, thereby making coalitions more likely.

In reality, the First Consul, Bonaparte, dominated his two colleagues and held supreme power, soon making himself Consul for life and eventually, in 1804, Emperor.

The Baron's plan to assure Feyd's power is to install him as ruler of Arrakis after a period of tyrannical misrule by Rabban, making Feyd appear to be the savior of the people.

Eusebius said, “ The Creator of all things has impressed a natural law upon the soul of every man, as an assistant and ally in his conduct, pointing out to him the right way by this law ; but, by the free liberty with which he is endowed, making the choice of what is best worthy of praise and acceptance, because he has acted rightly, not by force, but from his own free-will, when he had it in his power to act otherwise, As, again, making him who chooses what is worst, deserving of blame and punishment, as having by his own motion neglected the natural law, and becoming the origin and fountain of wickedness, and misusing himself, not from any extraneous necessity, but from free will and judgment.

During the war, the Soviet Union's role was negligible, making Albania the only nation occupied during World War II whose independence was not determined by a great power.

This incident further consolidated Hoxha's power, effectively making Khrushchev-esque reforms nearly impossible.

In fact Hitler had a narrow range of interests and decision making was diffused among overlapping, feuding power centers ; on some issues he was passive, simply assenting to pressures from whomever had his ear.

Philosopher of science Karl Popper, in his Conjectures and Refutations, critiqued such claims of the explanatory power or valid application of historical materialism by arguing that it could explain or explain away any fact brought before it, making it unfalsifiable.

Mahathir bin Mohamad was the leading force in making Malaysia into a major industrial power.

Because the book of Habbakuk consists of five oracles about the Chaldeans ( Babylonians ), and the Chaldean rise to power is dated circa 612 BCE, it is assumed he was active about that time, making him an early contemporary of Jeremiah and Zephaniah.

The steam engine was used to pump water from coal mines ; to lift trucks of coal to the surface ; to blow air into the furnaces for the making of iron ; to grind clay for pottery ; and to power new factories of all kinds.

This account frequently invokes the slogan of " avenging the blood of Naboth " (, 25, 26 ), whose vineyard Jehoram's father Ahab had taken by force (); this fact suggests that perhaps the burden of making the northern kingdom a regional power had grown too heavy for its citizens, and Jehoram's defeat at Ramoth-Gilead gave them an opportunity to throw this burden off.

Brabham and Repco were aware that the engine would not compete in terms of outright power, but felt that a lightweight, reliable engine could achieve good championship results while other teams were still making their new designs reliable.

The first inter city passenger railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, making exclusive use of steam power for both passenger and freight trains.

Some historians view cases of cross-dressing women to be manifestations of women seizing power they would naturally be unable to enjoy in feminine attire, or their way of making sense out of their desire for women.

The largest failure for the Kampfgeschwader, however, was saddling them with an aircraft meant to be as big and as apparently capable as any Allied four-engined " heavy bomber " – the perpetually-troubled Heinkel He 177 – which had been condemned to being designed to carry out moderate angle dive bombing missions from the day that the RLM accepted it for production in November 1937, making it overweight from the start, and mandating design features that led its " welded-together engines ", a pair of cumbersome Daimler-Benz DB 606 " power systems ", to perpetually catching fire in flight during operational missons over both the Eastern Front and the United Kingdom.

Ruth Henig has suggested that, had the United States become a member, it would have also provided backup to France and Britain, possibly making France feel more secure and so encouraging France and Britain to co-operate more fully regarding Germany, making the rise to power of the Nazi Party less likely.

Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.

It has the power to collect taxes ( in the form of assessment tax ), to create laws and rules ( in the form of by-laws ) and to grant licenses and permits for any trade in its area of jurisdiction, in addition to providing basic amenities, collecting and managing waste and garbage as well as planning and developing the area under its jurisdiction.

The mayor and aldermen had the power and authority to elect marshals, clerks, treasurer and other necessary officers to properly carry on the affairs of Odum ; prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of such officials ; make and pass ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations which are deemed necessary for the good order, peace, health and government of Odum ; have exclusive jurisdiction over the streets, alleys, sidewalks, drives, parks and other property of Odum ; keeping the same in good order, removing all obstructions of the same at the expenses of the person obstructing ; construct and maintain waterworks, drainage and sewage systems, and other modern improvements, issuing bonds to pay for such expenses ; establish and regulate police, fire and sanitary protection for Odum ; grant municipal franchies ; raise revenue by taxation and grant licenses to defray the expense of government ; regulate the sale and barter of merchandise within the limits of Odum, and the exhibition of shows.

Thus, the mayor has administrative police power in a town ( i. e. they can order the police to enforce the municipal by-laws ), and a judge has police power in their court ( i. e. they can have people who disrupt the proceedings expelled from the court room ).

Use of the lake and its shorelines is regulated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in conjunction with the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority ; the Ministry of Natural Resources governs fishing regulations, town by-laws regulate the use of power boats on the lake, and laws are enforced by the York Regional Police Marine Unit.

It is believed that, in particular, he wrote many of the sections relating to expropriations and the power of the city to pass by-laws.

His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

The demonstration of his power was never flamboyant or theatrical.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

It was apparent that Welch was in cahoots with Marshall and would use his power as D.A. to drag every possible sensation into the case.

At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.

The antenna patterns and the power gain at the peak of the beam were both measured ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958 ), so that the absolute power sensitivity of the antenna beam over the solid angle of the moon was known.

The power source was a commercial D. C. rectifier.

The rf power level was maintained small enough at all times to prevent obvious line shape distortions by saturation effects.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.