Using her powers to hijack a car transport vehicle, she raced it through town.

Foreign powers such as the Australian government, concerned to maintain good relations with Indonesia, had been consistently reluctant to assist a push for independence ( despite popular sympathy for the East Timorese cause among many in the Australian electorate ).

In the 1920s, the Colonial Office supported agitation for an elective council as long as the governor had reserve powers to allow him to push through any measures he considered essential without the council's assent.

The British further used this revenue to increase their military might and push the other European colonial powers such as the Dutch and the French out of South Asia, thus expanding the British Empire in Asia.

On December 12, Yeltsin managed to push through his new constitution, creating a strong presidency and giving the president sweeping powers to issue decrees.

In the months following the disaster, the Pittsburgh Courier, a newspaper with a large nationwide subscription primarily of African Americans, related the incident and the subsequent mutiny trial in their ongoing " Double V " campaign, a push for victory over not just the Axis powers but also over racial inequality at home.

Saturn Girl's powers in her initial Silver Age appearances appeared to be great: she could summon distant people ; probe human, electronic, and animal minds ; " push " weakened minds, and even directly control others ' thoughts and emotions.

He often fights Nova in order to test him and to push Nova into using his powers in new ways.

However, the smaller powers continued to push for a body based in the US.

The Jedi segments use basic lightsaber slashing and two force powers, which rely on a force power bar, lightsaber throw and force push.

A difficult encounter with a particularly vicious foe, the first Reverse-Flash ( Eobard Thawne ), also served to increase the speed of the character, forcing him to push past a psychological block he had placed on his powers.

He is first seen attempting to push his mind control powers further than ever, but severely injures himself in the attempt, despite his meticulous preparations which include a constant blood supply and an ice pool.

However the smaller powers continued to push for a Washington-based body.

During the events of Infinite Crisis, most of the speedsters in the DC Universe combined their powers to push Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force.

Slowly but surely, and perhaps not without a push or two from the authorities of the Catholic Church, the powers to be began to close upon this little man who was considered dangerous enough to be destroyed.

There are five such force powers in all, including the dash, jump, and push skills seen in the movies, as well as two others: the ability to heal faster and the ability to remain invisible for extended periods.

We feel the quality of these powers initially as in some degree wholesome or threatening.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

In her mind's eye -- her imagination responding fully, almost exhaustingly, to these shores' peculiar powers of stimulation -- she saw the city as from above, telescoped on its great bare plains that the ruins marked, aqueducts and tombs, here a cypress, there a pine, and all around the low blue hills.

The defining objectives of alchemy are varied ; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base metals into the noble metals gold or silver, as well as an elixir of life conferring youth and immortality.

The Nordendorf fibula ( early 7th century ) clearly records pagan theonyms, logaþorewodanwigiþonar read as " Wodan and Donar are magicians / sorcerers ", but this may be interpreted as either a pagan invocation of the powers of these deities, or a Christian protective charm against them.

For example, in his commentary, De mineralibus, he refers to the power of stones, but does not elaborate on what these powers might be.

( Hume 1974: 353-354 ) He produces like arguments against the notion that we have knowledge of these powers as they affect the mind alone.

Accordingly, the wings attributed to these powers have no other meaning than to indicate the sublimity of their nature.

There was fear that Britain would soon be at war with these powers as a consequence of the Batavian revolution in the Netherlands.

If powers of management are vested in the directors, they and they alone can exercise these powers.

Repeatedly emerging victorious from these decisive wars has allowed Britain to influence world events with its policies and establish its self as great power and one of the world's leading military and economic powers.

Some critics of this approach feel that while these models approach biological reality as a representation of how the system works, they lack explanatory powers because complicated systems of connections with even simple rules are extremely complex and often less interpretable than the system they model.

Robert Mundell's " impossible trinity " is the most famous formulation of these limited powers, and postulates that it is impossible to target monetary policy ( broadly, interest rates ), the exchange rate ( through a fixed rate ) and maintain free capital movement.

As the relationships and powers of these institutions have developed, various legislative procedures have been created for adopting laws.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

With these appointments, Andropov effectively wielded the powers of the nomenklatura.

Some believe that the saint possessed magical powers and so his tomb still possesses these powers.

In these, Hughes enhanced state regulation of railroads by reviving the Cooley doctrine of " concurrent powers.

Roman numerals have symbols for the decimal powers ( 1, 10, 100, 1000 ) and secondary symbols for half these values ( 5, 50, 500 ).

Overlap occurs between these usages because deities or godlike entities are often identical with and / or identified by the powers and forces that are credited to them — in many cases a deity is merely a power or force personified — and these powers and forces may then be extended or granted to mortal individuals.

Archimedes ' goal was presumably to name large powers of 10 in order to give rough estimates, but shortly thereafter,

From a historical point of view, Kotor went through a rough time under all the so-called occupations by the great powers of Europe.

When all seems lost, the Shaolin disciples reawaken and utilize their special powers, dismantling the other team's rough play easily.

The powers of the legislature include enactment and amendment of the constitution and laws ; adoption of the government budget, declarations of war and peace, defining national boundaries, calling referenda and elections, appointments and relief of officers, supervising the Government of Croatia and other holders of public powers responsible to the Sabor, and granting of amnesties.

Most importantly, the boundaries of the powers of the ministers and church officers are set by clear and constant reminders of the freedoms guaranteed by the Gospel to the laity, collectively and individually.

However, this overlooks those parts of scripture which provide for the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and for the medieval Roman Catholic concept of the powers of kings to protect the Christian Constitution of states, to defend and extend the boundaries of Christendom by lawful means only, to protect and defend the innocent, the weak, the poor and the vulnerable, and to protect the church and the papacy with the king's own life, if necessary.

The boundaries of modern Eritrea and the entire region were established during the European colonial period between Italian, British and French colonialists as well as the lone landlocked African Empire of Abyssinia which found itself surrounded and its boundaries defined by said colonial powers.

Elected county councils took over the powers of the grand juries. The boundaries of the traditional counties changed on a number of occasions.

Among the powers of a Drainage District were the power to condemn and acquire property outside its boundaries " for the public use ".

Other topics include modifying the country's boundaries ( 1871, 1949 ), transfer payments ( 1907 ), temporary changes due to two world wars ( 1916, 1943 ), federal-provincial powers ( 1930, 1964 ), power over changes in the constitution ( No. 2 ), the creation of new social programs ( 1951, 1964 ), and mandatory retirement ages in the Canadian government ( 1960, 1965 )

While the Berlin Conference of 1884 – 5 sought to draw boundaries between the European powers ' African possessions, it also set the stage for further scrambles.

This applies to one person who represents a small group ( e. g., the organiser of a social event setting a dress code ) as equally as it does to national governments, which are ultimate trustees, holding representative powers for the benefit of all citizens within their territorial boundaries.

Each administrative entity is given powers, structure, and boundaries by a law that was passed by the President of the Government ( or Prime Minister ).

Leigh Kimmel of The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf says that the novel is " the work of the man at the height of his powers, confident in his abilities and in the editorial respect he enjoys, and thus free to take significant risks in writing a novel that would stretch the boundaries of the genre as they stood at the time.

Although the Dutch, Italians, Spanish, and other NATO powers opposed such a structure, which meant that the alliance's boundaries would change without their participation, the six nations began negotiations in March 1990.

" McKenna found that the legislation was within the boundaries of Congress ' powers to regulate interstate commerce, and, in regard to the Fifth Amendment, a line was to be drawn between private and public business: " We are dealing with rights exercised in a quasi-public business, and therefore subject to control in the interest of the public.

The international complications of the dispute stretch far beyond the boundaries of the island of Cyprus itself and involve the guarantor powers ( Turkey, Greece, and the United Kingdom alike ), along with the United States, the United Nations and the European Union.

In 1898 and 1899, European colonial powers amicably demarcated the boundaries between the Northern Territories and the surrounding French and German colonies.

The controlling powers were left free to decide on state boundaries within these areas.

The Mauryan Empire, during the 2nd century BC, became a collage of regional powers with overlapping boundaries.

Power-of-two block sizes make address computation simple, because all buddies are aligned on memory address boundaries that are powers of two.

The legal basis for this belief, they contend, can be found in Federalist 49, in which James Madison wrote “ The several departments being perfectly co-ordinate by the terms of their common commission, none of them, it is evident, can pretend to an exclusive or superior right of settling the boundaries between their respective powers .” This approach to government is commonly known as " departmentalism ” or “ coordinate construction ”

Although the Berlin Conference had more or less divided Africa up by colonial powers, there were no distinct boundaries between Congo Free State and North Eastern Rhodesia.

If the amendment affects provincial powers or boundaries, or if it amends the Bill of Rights, at least six of the nine provinces in the National Council of Provinces must also vote for it.