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Washington has vowed to block the move in the Security Council, where it is one of the five veto power-wielding permanent members.
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Stephen Harper appears to have taken a centralized form of power-wielding in order to maintain his grip on a slim minority government, and for now Canadians are content with the status quo.
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Stemming from their worldview were ideologies that supported the idea that people with access to both specialized knowledge and spiritual collateral synergistically brought together power-wielding forces to produce either beneficial or detrimental outcomes.
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Stephen Harper appears to have taken a centralized form of power-wielding in order to maintain his grip on a slim minority government, and for now Canadians are content with the status quo.
The Medium Is The Message And The PMO Controls It « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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And, we know with certainty, that the big banks will use their pivotal position in the economy and their economic resources to quash democratic processes when they are inimical to their profit-making/power-wielding interests.
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And if they see us as part of a power-wielding clique of Insiders, they're going to be resentful as hell that they have no way to call us to account ...
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Over the last five years, Iraqis have seen near-constant bloodshed today's bombing of Shiite pilgrims in Karbala on the way to the Imam Hussein shrine, by the way, could prove to be as destabilizing as the bombing of the Golden Done in Samarra in 2006, ethnic cleansing, the rise of dangerous militias, theocratic power-wielding zealots and warlords, a political stalemate verging on civil war, and no discernible improvement in basic services since the invasion.
Hullabaloo 2008
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He argued that in a typical bureaucratic hierarchy, what is needed for leadership is an authority-accepting, upward-oriented, competitive, assertive, masculine, power-wielding, tough-minded person who will attend to details.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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So far, none of them have suggested that the next new thing for the power-wielding woman is a straight black skirt with a boxy, oyster-colored blazer, which is what Palin wore when she accepted the vice-presidential nomination in St. Paul, Minn.
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Condoleezza "Have Wardrobe, Will Travel" Rice is one of the only power-wielding Washington women immune from the highly contagious pantsuit mania.
Karin Tanabe: The Great Pantsuit Problem (And What To Do About It) 2008
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