However, he appears to be toying with the notion that a renewed power grab may plant the seeds for change.
Such a gambit by the SCAF could very well backfire, however, and push Egyptians back onto the streets to protest a renewed power grab by one of the two leading "felool" candidates, the so-called "remnants" of the ancien regime of Mubarak, Ahmed Shafiq and Amr Moussa.
A classic Neil Diamond song about the renewing power of a relationship boomed from the speakers.
Once the referendum date has passed, the centralized power in Westminster will make its decisions based on a newly renewed power relationship in which the Scots will have voted No.
For three weeks, the Israeli government has pointedly withheld the transfer of these payments, amounting to more than $100 million, to express opposition to the Palestinian Authority's recent policy of pursuing United Nations membership and renewing power-sharing talks with Hamas.
In addition, they said, the European initiative called for intensified diplomatic contacts with Russia, now projecting a sense of renewed power and prominence on the world stage, to prevent confrontation with the United States and Europe.
Russia will enjoy a year of renewed power and global influence in 2017, thanks to multi-billion dollar energy deals and thinly-disguised diplomatic concessions from Qatar, Japan and America.
Relations with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a noted sceptic of Germany's renewed power after reunification, remained frosty throughout their time in office.
Over the last decade, the family gained renewed power and respect after a period in which internal rivalries and widespread drug dealing prompted the city's four other crime families to shun the Bonannos.
The firm says it supports government plans to renew power networks and build more renewables such as wind and solar.
For a Jew who survived the concentration camp and continued to live in Germany surrounded by his oppressor and for the woman who was infected with AIDS by a knowing partner, to forgive was less an act of graciousness but rather an intentional effort towards personal freedom and renewed power.
