David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle describes the character as one who "all but salivates over the chance to use his considerable power to gain more power, especially if it involves pulling the rug out from under some colleagues and the wool over the eyes of others".
Moreover, under a recent European Commission scenario and using estimated learning rates for wind power and the combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT), wind power gains considerable competitive ground due to international technology learning impacts.
State leaders have gained considerable power in recent years at the expense of the central government.
The administration of the German king Wenceslas of Luxembourg (1373 78) provided a measure of strong government, but generally in the 14th century the local nobility gained considerable power at the expense of the elector and of the formerly free peasantry.
[A1.] Sony Set to Exert Influence on Discs As the leader of the group that plans to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Sony Corporation of America is poised to gain considerable power in its fight to set the format for the next generation of digital video discs.
Despite gaining considerable power during the mid twentieth-century, the governor is still much weaker than those of other states.
The order's founder, Father Marcial Maciel, gained considerable power by courting the country's economic and political elites but eventually fell into disgrace for sexually abusing seminarians.
As a result of these large population genomic databases, we have gained considerable power in detecting and understanding species history (e.g., Li and Durbin 2011), the genome-wide consequences of natural selection (e.g., Comeron 2014), structural variation (e.g., Corbett-Detig and Hartl 2012), and patterns of linkage disequilibrium and recombination (e.g., Chan et al. 2012).
And, eventually, they gained relatively not considerable power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.13 and 3.81%, respectively [13].
"Extremist nationalists have wielded considerable power, leveraging average peoples' irrational fear of Muslims for political gain," says Matthew Smith, executive director of human rights non-profit Fortify Rights.
