As megachurches like his or Bishop Blake's become more politically active, Mr. Flake said, they will constitute a power bloc outside the political parties.
They also stand for cultural conservatism and stability, constituting a "power to protect slowness", in the words of Franz Walter, a political analyst.Angela Merkel, now chancellor, was testing the limits when she set out to give the CDU a makeover after becoming chairman in 1998.
Zelaya had indeed called for a non-binding poll to determine whether the single term limit should be put to a vote, but his defenders maintain that holding such a poll hardly constitutes a power grab.
Together they constituted a formidable power, which defeated their major common enemy, the Knights of the Teutonic Order, at the Battle of Tannenberg (Grünfelde; July 15 , 1410.
Every assault and every threat provided more ammunition for abolitionist claims that proslavery forces in the United States constituted a "Slave Power" that would undo democracy to maintain a slaveholding oligarchy.
The Ohio Supreme Court further concluded that the amendment to the city charter constituted a "delegation" of power violative of federal constitutional guarantees because the voters were given no standards to guide their decision.
Large groups of people, acting and interacting in concert and contrary to the restrictions of the regime, constituted a transforming political power.
Steam power constitutes an important power source for industrial society.
Instead, the action for annulment was based on claims that the legal base of the Directive was defective, that the measure had been adopted in breach of the principle of proportionality, constituted a misuse of powers and, finally, infringed on the essential procedural requirement to state reasons.
