The application of power and intimidation has returned to the forefront of American foreign policy.
Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power.
Indeed, his contemporary reputation was one of supreme ruthlessness and arbitrariness in the application of power.
"Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people.
"There were indications that application of power of command, expert knowledge, and position were employed in a manner to suggest possible coercion," the report concluded.
A slight push on the gas pedal and there's an instant application of power, shifting weight to the rear and scooting the Forester out of the turn.
Football's bitter experience, and cycling's continued inability to come to terms with what Lance Armstrong's application of power represented, suggests athletics' problems have only just begun.
Mr. Obama's hope was that a quick application of power from the air would tip the balance, and the Libyan rebels would do the rest.
Other areas for discussion, Mr. Smadja said, will include advances in information technology and biotechnology, the role of the United States and its application of power, and methods for sustaining the economic boom in industrial nations.
Taken together, the two engravings represent Cayley's solution to his own definition of the problem of flight, "to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air".
