All promote nuclear power, embrace energy efficiency and promise greener technologies.
In 1971, however, the Malta Labour Party (Partit Laburista; MLP) came to power, embracing a policy of nonalignment and aggressively asserting Malta's sovereignty.
Regulatory power embraces railroads, airlines, health care properties, utilities, energy, even growth stocks in sectors like media and the Internet.
So why are the Democrats, now in power, embracing the same programs they denigrated in opposition?
What was more, all the continental powers embraced offensive strategies.
The 21st century will not be the first time the world's major powers embraced quite different models of governance and commerce: during the 17th century, the Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, Qing Dynasty and Tokugawa Shogunate each ran its affairs according to its own distinct rules and culture.
In the 1890s, however, the United States and other great powers embraced geopolitical doctrines stemming from the writings of naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan, who posited that national greatness in a competitive world derived from the ability to control navigation of the seas.
But a growing number of architects, especially those who were babies when Mr. Roche, now 88, was at the height of his powers, embrace him as a visionary.
As the United States and other Western powers embrace and help finance the new government taking shape in Libya, they could face a particularly awkward relationship with Islamists like Mr. Belhaj.
The provinces have powers embracing mainly matters of local or private concern such as property and civil rights, education, civil law, provincial company charters, municipal government, hospitals, licenses, management and sale of public lands, and direct taxation within the province for provincial purposes.
