But the initiative lies increasingly with Mr Fico, who is clever, cynical, and ambitious.
As everything technological becomes connected, the value of a product lies increasingly in its links to other products and services.
At the moment, the advantage on the Internet lies increasingly with the data miners and the advertisers, not the consumer.
I.B.M.'s business lies increasingly outside the United States, and the company no longer sells products like personal computers to consumers.
Today it lies increasingly in intangible assets such as the McDonald's name, the patent for Viagra and the rights to Spiderman.
In going down the group, the metals become more likely to lose an electron because the electron being removed lies increasingly farther from the positive nucleus.
It's difficult to predict the future as libraries exist in a fast changing environment, but one thing seems clear – the availability and convenient access to a huge volume and variety of digital scholarly content will continue, most of which may lie increasingly outside library walls.
As more and more speech migrates online, to blogs and social-networking sites and the like, the ultimate power to decide who has an opportunity to be heard, and what we may say, lies increasingly with Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and even eBay.
World Bank, Jan . 13 Underneath the fragile global recovery lie increasingly divergent trends with significant implications for global growth.
At present, the emphasis of secondary prevention in CVD patients lies increasingly on multifactorial risk reduction through lifestyle intervention therapy [ 10, 11], but the non-participation of CVD patients has not yet been evaluated in lifestyle intervention trials.
