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In 1389, the Serbian empire was crushed there by the expanding power of the Ottoman Turks.

But the sentiment sounds ominous to those who fear the expanding power of corporations in politics and policy.

Americans, he said, "are not happy with the expanding power of the federal government" and want judges to "say no to the federal government when it overreaches".

Its ruler, Unur, fearful of the expanding power of Nūr al-Dīn, was the one Muslim ruler most disposed to cooperating with the Franks.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 9 — Finding Yon Goicoechea, a leader of the nascent student movement protesting the expanding power of President Hugo Chávez, is not easy.

Professor Eric Posner, of the University of Chicago Law School, is the co-author of "The Executive Unbound," a chronicle of the expanding power of the U.S. Presidency.

To protect against the erosion of Americans' constitutional rights, the commission recommended the formation of a civil liberties and privacy board within the executive branch to act as a counterweight to the expanding powers of the national security state.

Germany lost the war, he says, but Hitler triumphed — essentially, in the greatly expanded power of the modern state.

The expanded power of a dollar, combined with what seems like infinite need, creates so many situations in which no answer seems appropriate.

As well as a flowering of collective action in defence of democracy, and a resurgence of the struggles of the poor and oppressed, what's going on is also about the expanded power of the individual.

The expanded power of Hezbollah and its allies was visible in last-minute negotiations on Friday, when Mr. Siniora was apparently forced to accept an opposition member, whom he had previously refused, in the cabinet.