Others, including the Republican nominee for mayor, Joseph J. Lhota, have joked that, because the public advocate has few concrete powers, the two candidates could be allowed to serve, at a saving to taxpayers.
Delsin battles and eventually defeats Augustine with his new concrete powers.
The office has a small budget and little concrete power, but has often proved a steppingstone to running for mayor.
Lionel Trilling never had that kind of concrete power, but that doesn't stop us from continuing to read "The Opposing Self".
But concrete power resides in America's careerist technocracy, for which the elite schools, with their ideological view of gender as a social construct, are feeder cells.
The five-fold increase in the cash to communities hosting wind farms touted by Davey is nothing more than a recommendation, while the veto is a concrete power.
It has a negligible budget and little concrete power, but, as Mr. de Blasio's surge shows, politicians can use the office as a launching pad to pursue greater things; one of Mr. de Blasio's predecessors, Mark Green, captured the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2001.
This techno cathedral, in a beautiful, brutal, concrete power station on the edge of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, pulls in formidable line ups – and an even more formidable crowd – and has a deserved reputation as one of the best clubs in the world.
To be more concrete, power consumption stands at 398W for the biggest model, at 365W for the 46-incher and at 335W for the 42-inch VIERA.
Perhaps one could say that while Cooper and Waldby's critique of clinical labor involves a thorough critique of (novel as well as sustained) forms of domination and exploitation, it falls short on the analysis of concrete power struggles.
We thus propose an approach for the design of power models that is based on two steps, namely analysing the use cases for the power model and designing the concrete power model as an instance of a generic power model.
