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To carry out this exalted conception the author has combined the vivid realism and imaginative power we have noticed in his early poetry and carried them out on a grand scale.
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.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.
Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.
We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.
It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
Ashamed of our wealth and power, afraid of so-called world opinion and addicted to peace, we have allowed our soft-heartedness to lead to soft-headed policies.
What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate.
Without this power we lay open any American industry which the Europeans may find it economically profitable to destroy to the will of others.
`` Now '', he said, `` we got to put in some outlets for them power tools ; ;
In order to focus clearly upon the operation of this one force, which we may call the effect of `` public-limit pricing '' on `` key '' wage bargains, we deliberately simplify the model by abstracting from other forces, such as union power, which may be relevant in an actual situation.
In municipal systems we tend to view what is called positivism as fundamentally a movement to democratize policy by increasing the power of parliament -- the elected representatives -- at the expense of the more conservative judiciary.
Now Rangoni comes to the point, and we hear, for the first time, a long, downward chromatic scale that will become the characteristic motif of his sinister power.
In the recent political campaign two charges were leveled affecting the question of power, and I think we might begin by trying to put them into proper focus.
Only in one instance have we moved purposively and effectively to dislodge existing Communist power: in Guatemala.
With the divinities present and our souls in place, we were wished health, happiness, and power.
In our disbelief we think that we can no longer even use the word and so are unable to even name the elemental power which is so vividly real in this play.
Religion, or the lack of it, will decide whether we use this power to build a brave new world of peace and abundance for all mankind, or whether we misuse this power to leave a world utterly destroyed.

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He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).
It was replaced in 1988 by the 1541-II, which used an external power supply to provide cooler operation and allow the drive to have a smaller desktop footprint ( the power supply " brick " being placed elsewhere, typically on the floor ).
The Kernel-Mode Driver Framework ( KMDF ) model continues to allow development of kernel-mode device drivers, but attempts to provide standard implementations of functions that are well known to cause problems, including cancellation of I / O operations, power management, and plug and play device support.
High energy beta particles can also be detected by a thin walled tube which has no dedicated end window, and although the tube walls have a greater stopping power than an end window, they allow these more energetic particles to penetrate to reach the fill gas.
We can allow the table size n to not be a power of 2 and still not have to perform any remainder or division operation, as these computations are sometimes costly.
Other materials are used for special purposes, often to increase power output or to allow operation under water or in space.
* Nitrous oxide has been used — with extra gasoline — in tactical aircraft, and in specially equipped cars to allow short bursts of added power from engines that otherwise run on gasoline and air.
Nor was Hitler willing to allow Goebbels or anyone else to usurp his own power as the ultimate source of all decisions.
First, Britain must give an assurance of full independence for India after the war and allow the election of a constituent assembly to frame a new constitution ; second, although the Indian armed forces would remain under the British Commander-in-Chief, Indians must be included immediately in the central government and given a chance to share power and responsibility.
Within other international contexts, there are intergovernmental organizations such as the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) that have socially and economically significant dispute resolution functions but, again, even though their jurisdiction may be invoked to hear the cases, the power to enforce their decisions is at the will of the states affected, save that the WTO is permitted to allow retaliatory action by successful states against those states found to be in breach of international trade law.
As the situation in Europe escalated into war, the Assembly transferred enough power to the Secretary General on 30 September 1938 and 14 December 1939 to allow the League to continue to exist legally and carry on reduced operations.
The military dictatorship said it would remain in power for two years in order to allow time for implementing democratic institutions.
Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd argue that improvement in consumer-grade graphics technology will allow more realism ; similarly, Paul Marino connects machinima to the increasing computing power predicted by Moore's Law.
The Dragon's heatshield characteristics could allow for a safe descent if landing rockets of sufficient power were made available.
Many in the colony however, began to chafe against the aristocratic Family Compact who governed while benefiting economically from the region's resources, and who did not allow elected bodies the power to effect change ( much as the Château Clique ruled Lower Canada ).
God would allow for the ability to choose, and to not have full power over all in what was chosen by a human being each step of the way.
Other, less restricted forms of psychological egoism may allow the ultimate goal of a person to include such things as avoiding punishments from oneself or others ( such as guilt or shame ) and attaining rewards ( such as pride, self-worth, power or reciprocal beneficial action ).
These newly reincarnated dead-interstellar zombies-can harness superhuman powers-most notably the power to project " the white fire ", the ability to alter form, and the ability to open the " channel " to allow souls to return to possess others.
If we allow a finite automaton access to two stacks instead of just one, we obtain a more powerful device, equivalent in power to a Turing machine.
This power would allow the President to step in if, in extraordinary circumstances, the ordinary procedures for convening the houses had broken down.
Racing boats also have sliding seats to allow the use of the legs in addition to the body to apply power to the oar.
Over the decades, advances in computer power would allow an image to take less time to render.
The fall of Robespierre was brought about by a combination of those who wanted more power for the Committee of Public Safety, and a more radical policy than he was willing to allow, with the moderates who opposed the Revolutionary Government altogether.

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