Law enforcement officials hailed the power of DNA testing to identify the guilty and the innocent.
At the highest echelons of the Pentagon, civilian officials and four-star generals are newly hailing the power of social networking to make members of the American military more empathetic, entice recruits and shape public opinion on the war.
"There's a lot of potential for this kind of thing". While scientists hail the power of technology to thwart destructive forces, they note that flood control is a job for nature at least as much as for engineers.
But Adele's Sunday night teaser, welcomed in the Guardian with the line "All hail the power of an ellipsis", showed, according to the university, that "in our haste to communicate the moods of our thoughts, we just can't resist them'.
In March 1946, at Fulton in Missouri, in his famous "iron curtain" speech, he said that there needed to be "a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and empire and the United States", while he also hailed "the abiding power of the British empire and Commonwealth".
Michael Billington, writing in the Guardian, hailed the "insidious power" of Rylance's "slow-burn approach".
