Russia is too weak to exert the kind of military pressure it exercised against Georgia in 1993.
The protesters may be beaten and bruised, but the Iranian government could not prevent the world from witnessing the brutality that it continues to exercise against its citizens.
Ironically, exactly those latter qualities were of course exercised against Iran and their current idol, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with warm applause from Britain and the US.
Moreover, it is well established that the president's power drops to what Justice Robert H. Jackson called its "lowest ebb" when exercised against the express will of Congress.
There are tens of millions of dollars that go into these militias that, in effect, get translated into a sense of impunity that is then exercised against the weakest members of society.
"Since that time," Skousen wrote, "there has been no veto power which the states could exercise against the Congress in those cases where a federal statute was deemed in violation of states' rights".
"The power that is being exercised against the McGahs today is the same power that was used to pry my dad away from the team," Mike Valley told The Contra Costa Times.
For other feminists, what is critical is the extent to which even apparently free choices are exercised against a backdrop of economic inequality or patriarchal dominance.
However, after The List was torn down again in August, Cennetoğlu opted not to reinstall the piece, instead leaving the remnants to serve as a "reminder of the systematic violence exercised against people," according to ArtForum.
While the collection's title is delightfully antagonistic and its first section, which contains critiques of the way we exercise (" Against Exercise"), think about and have sex ("Afternoon of the Sex Children"), and pursue healthy eating ("On Food"), might be considered really highbrow trolling the contents are not necessarily so.
