The real fight is over who will get the credit for normalizing ties with Washington -- and thus augment their power.
The strategic result of these unplanned German offensives was merely to throw the French back onto a fortified barrier that both restored and augmented their power of resistance.
We don't want the president to rule by fiat, despite what Mr. Douthat implies, but we expect Mr. Obama to use his bully pulpit to stand up to those bullies who would use our nation's laws and loopholes to augment their power or their pocketbooks.
More important, they have wanted to augment their cultural power, to emphasize their female suffering.
Just as suicide bombers packed their explosive devices with pieces of shrapnel and ball bearings to increase their potency, many of Hezbollah's warheads have been filled with bullets and tiny metal balls that augment their destructive power when they hit humans, buildings or automobiles, according to police investigators who have examined the rocket debris.
A disproportionate number of Black Friday shoppers have multiple credit cards, which augments their purchasing power.
The Germans will use the crisis to augment their position of power in Europe — something they have not had for many years.
Wouldn't it be nice if the human agents in a crowdsourced network could augment their individual processing power - aka their intelligence?
Those were the glory years of English royal patronage when the monarch, the court and other aristocrats commissioned and displayed splendid artefacts to augment and advertise their power and prestige.Their demands stimulated creativity at home and attracted gifted, ambitious artists from abroad.
They unite together by their feelings, more than their reflections, in augmenting his power, because the more power he has, and the less the gentlemen have, the safer they are.
