The service is required to seek a warrant before conducting a wiretap, but because it wields almost complete control over the process, it is not known how rigidly that requirement is followed.
And because it wields quantitative data, it speaks in an incredibly persuasive voice: "Hey, this program worked last year, and the year before that, and 10 years before that.
Until recently, Apple could ignore such demands because it wielded tremendous leverage.
In part that's surely because he wields a certain amount of power: after what you just read, would you buy a unit in Palazzo Grey?
From the opening scenes, for example, all television watchers will know that Grant is bad — with reservations on his mind — because he wields a brandy snifter in daylight and smokes a cigar, just as they will know that Aidan Quinn is good because he's, well, Aidan Quinn, with that broad face and those Santa eyes.
Goldman has come under particularly intense scrutiny on such issues since the financial and economic downturn began gathering momentum in 2007, in part because it has done so well, in part because of the power it wields in Washington and on Wall Street, and in part because regulators have taken a keen interest in its dealings.
Government watchdog groups follow OIRA closely because of the power it wields over regulation.
Neff says street art helps him express himself because it's instantly gratifying, and wielding a spray-paint can gives him a certain kind of power, simply because it's a medium that can be so challenging to master.
Other studies in this domain have shown that this type of knowledge is difficult to extract because it is wielded tacitly [12] through repetition, and rapid and automated actions in a dynamic work environment [13].
Many people assume America would lose little from Doha's demise, in part because it could wield power in regional deals.Yet the opposite may prove true.
