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be powers
noun
Ability to coerce, influence or control. Ability to affect or influence.
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The most obvious answer, in the Spinozistic context, would be "powers to persevere in its own being".
The Biblical material is more muddled; the Hebrew God who so interests Aronofsky excels at getting angry at human beings and expelling them from places where He doesn't want them to be — powers that Bardem's wet noodle of a patriarch possesses not in the least.
"The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union, and there will be powers coming back from Brussels.
I'm not saying that China and India won't be powers, but I don't know what that means.
The French foreign minister, Christian Pineau, records Adenauer as saying that "France and England will never be powers comparable to the United States...Not Germany either.
For financial policies, there need to be powers at the centre to limit excessive risk-taking by banks and regulatory capture by supervisors.
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There must be power.
Don't be power-hungry.
Soccer and softball are powers.
"Power is power".
Beauty is power?
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