The mastery of nuclear power would also open the possibility of eventually developing nuclear weapons, a subject that Japan secretly studied when Mr. Nakasone was defense minister in 1970.
It will require a greater mastery of soft power than the U.S. has hitherto exhibited.
Obama has demonstrated remarkable mastery of the powers of the presidency to lead the country.
He was at the peak of his creative powers and his mastery of Hollywood star power (a path smoothed by Gabriella Forte, a former Armani executive, and Wanda McDaniel, the company's longtime celebrity wrangler), even as he was coping with the death, in 1985, of Sergio Galeotti, his partner and co-founder.
During these years, he developed a mastery of Beijing's power games.
The display of animals is not an assertion of mastery or power; it is an assertion of care and conservation.
They sought to stage an Olympics that made manifest their image of themselves, and Speer Jr, looking back to his father's mastery of the architecture of power, delivered the goods.
Author, "The 48 Laws of Power," "Mastery" In the stories of the greatest Masters, past and present, we can inevitably detect a phase in their lives in which all of their future powers were in development, like the chrysalis of a butterfly.
This collection of poems unleashed his anger against the new emperor and, on a technical level, freed him from his remaining classical prejudices and enabled him to achieve the full mastery of his poetic powers.
You also need mastery of the Force.
But pictures have desires, too, he argues, and a primary one is the desire to capture our attention — to "transfix the beholder" and gain some measure of mastery or power over us.
