The artistic interest, then, lies in what the encounter may be made to represent, in the power of some central significance to draw the details into relevance and meaningfulness.

But we must still seek to do what good lies in our power ( as Paneloux himself does as one of the volunteers who fights the plague ).

The main executive power lies in the cabinet headed by the prime minister.

Most executive power lies in the cabinet ( the Finnish Council of State ) headed by the prime minister.

In scientific notation, the given number is scaled by a power of 10 so that it lies within a certain range — typically between 1 and 10, with the radix point appearing immediately after the first digit.

The power of the theory of plate tectonics lies in its ability to combine all of these observations into a single theory of how the lithosphere moves over the convecting mantle.

Traditionally, syntax and compositional semantics follow tree-based structures, whose expressive power lies in the Principle of Compositionality, modeled in a hierarchical graph.

In fact, Conrad shows this power over darkness twice through the lies of Marlow.

Executive power lies with the Vice-Chancellor and the University Management Group, to which most other administrative bodies are subordinate.

Legislative power lies with the Nitijela.

This New Life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust ; and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing ; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving ; who believe in the lovers of God and in the reality of Manifestation, and yet do not expect any spiritual or material reward ; who do not let go the hand of Truth, and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies.

Actual executive power lies with the Prime Minister, who heads the cabinet.

As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).

The strength of this model lies in its predictive power.

The actual power in St. Lucia lies with the prime minister and the cabinet, usually representing the majority party in parliament.

The balance of power lies between the King and the Queen Mother.

Though she takes little direct part in government, the Crown remains the fount in which ultimate executive power over Government lies.

his being infinitely happy in himself from all eternity, and from his goodness manifested in his works, that he could have no other design in creating mankind than their happiness ; and therefore he wills their happiness ; therefore the means of their happiness: therefore that my behaviour, as far as it may be a means of the happiness of mankind, should be such … thus the will of God is the immediate criterion of Virtue, and the happiness of mankind the criterion of the wilt of God ; and therefore the happiness of mankind may be said to be the criterion of virtue, but once removed …( and )… I am to do whatever lies in my power towards promoting the happiness of mankind.

The ethical judgment of magic, therefore, lies in the results: performing magic to meet selfish needs or neglecting to appreciate its power often ends disastrously.

In telecommunication, a medium-power talker is a hypothetical talker, within a log-normal distribution of talkers, whose volume lies at the medium power of all talkers determining the volume distribution at the point of interest.

Of course, the difference lies in order of power — while many D & D adventures focus on allowing a band of heroes to prevail over a Dark Lord ( much as in the spirit of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula ), no such victory over the Dark Powers is conceivable.

Here lies the power of the liberal way: not in making the whole world Unitarian, but in helping ourselves and others to see some of the possibilities inherent in viewpoints other than one's own ; in encouraging the free interchange of ideas ; in welcoming fresh approaches to the problems of life ; in urging the fullest, most vigorous use of critical self-examination.

Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

The federal head of state the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, is elected ( de facto rotated ) for five years by and among the hereditary state rulers, but is usually styled " king " in foreign countries ; political power, however, lies with the prime minister.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.

Arcadius ' new advisor, the eunuch Eutropius, simply took Rufinus ' place as the power behind the Eastern imperial throne.

Much of the impetus behind campaign finance reform in the United States and in other countries is an attempt to prevent economic power being used to take political power.

Using the thumb as the power finger, the disc is drawn from the thigh area ; rear-wards and up from behind the body ; to over the shoulder ; releasing towards a forward aimpoint.

The resulting god, Amun-Ra, thus united the power that lay behind all things with the greatest and most visible force in nature.

The Fujiwara were the proverbial " power behind the throne " for centuries.

* Two fasces appear on either side of the flag of the United States behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives, representing the Roman power over the House and the country.

It became a great power and its navy went from being negligible to second only behind the Royal Navy in less than a decade.

For 30 years, Germany struggled against Britain to be Europe's leading industrial power, though both fell behind the United States.

Northumberland made plans to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne and marry her to his son, so that he could remain the power behind the throne.

As West European economic growth accelerated during the Industrial Revolution, sea trade and colonialism which had begun in the second half of the 18th century, Russia began to lag ever farther behind, creating new problems for the empire as a great power.

While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and thus the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.

* 1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement ( formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup ) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.

Because of this constant inebriated state, Nur Jahan, the favourite wife of Jahangir, became the actual power behind the throne.

In his play En Idealist, for example, the " hero " is King Herod whose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until he is at last defeated by a show of kindness to the Christ child in a weak moment.

Beria was second most powerful, and given Malenkov's personal weakness, was poised to become the power behind the throne and ultimately leader himself.

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

Citing the power behind the most aggressive firm on Wall Street, Drexel bankers often used " Michael says ..." to justify their tactics.

As the image of her as a political interloper grew, she sought to explicitly deny that she was the power behind the throne.

Benedict VII was elected pope in October 974 with the approval of Sicco and supposedly even the Crescentii family who behind the initial rebellion that put Boniface VII into power.