Attempts to assert that power, however, needn't delve into flawed legal arguments and acts of diplomatic impropriety.
Adelson, 81, and Saban, 70, have gained enormous political power in the new era of super PACs and unlimited contributions, and both made it clear during a rare joint appearance Sunday before an audience of several hundred Israeli Americans that they intend to assert that power during the next presidential campaign and beyond with policy demands for their candidates.
But critics assert that power providers across the nation want ratepayers to bear the financial burden when things go wrong, whether the cause is a natural disaster, a utility's negligence or even poor decision-making by executives — in essence, that like crucial financial firms, they are too big to fail.
So, any reassertion of U.S. government power depends on a fantasy that the U.S. government actually can assert that power.
Feminist economics often assert that power relations exist within the economy, and therefore, must be assessed in economic models in ways that they previously have been overlooked.
Connell (13) asserts that power differentials between men and women constitute a basic ingredient of gender and power theory.
He then drew attention to the fact that "Joint Publication 1: Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States" asserts that "military power is integrated with other instruments of national power to advance and defend U.S. values, interests, and objectives". .
What I have written is that it is "nonsense on stilts" to assert that "OPEC market power... can only be combated by energy independence secured by increased domestic production".
A study conducted by David Criswell of the University of Houston asserts that lunar-solar power, dispatched as tightly focused microwave beams to receiving antennas on Earth, "could provide the clean, safe, low-cost commercial electric energy needed on Earth".
The executive branch has virtually total power over immigration matters, and in this case the Justice Department asserted that this power should supersede any 1st Amendment right of access to deportation proceedings.
