We tend to forget that Iran's insistence on its sovereign right to develop nuclear power is in effect a national pursuit for empowerment, a pursuit informed by at least two centuries of military aggression, domestic meddling, skullduggery and, not least, technological denial by the West.
Yet local power is, in effect, checked by the dominance of Abu Dhabi, by far the biggest and richest emirate, and also moderated by informal Bedouin traditions, such as the regular public councils where citizens may address their rulers face to face.
The administration - to which power was in effect granted by the Supreme Court in a controversial ruling last December - is preparing not only to set the highest court in the land on course for a conservative generation, but has quietly revolutionised the way in which all federal judges are appointed to benches across the country, guaranteeing politically right-wing selections.
He has a history of nail-bitingly close races and knows how to work the fundraising, voter-turnout and other channels of his small state (money, people and power are in effect concentrated in just two urban areas).An intriguing twist, for those of us who are fathers, is that his very fighting skill and tenacity seem to have hurt his son, Rory, as much as they helped Harry.
An independent Kosovo, recognized by major Western powers, is in effect the first major fruit of the ideas behind R2P.
The bigger powers were in effect shamed out of their paralysis in Bosnia when Polish special forces, serving in neighbouring Croatia, boldly carried out the first detention operation of a war crimes suspect in June 1997.
To ease the E.C.B.'s policy shift, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France promised that the financial stability facility would take on responsibility for bond-buying in the secondary market as soon as its new powers were in effect.
"The power is in the effects these firsts had in moving society," said David Baldwin, senior vice president and executive creative director at McKinney & Silver.
The psychiatrist turns out to be an excellent dream-interpreter; with his ability to transform Picard's talk into visions and to recognize their symbolic power, he is, in effect, a master director, a demiurge who brings stories to light and turns them into images of the inner life.
Each solar power system is in effect converted into a fixed income security; financial services firms like Goldman Sachs make the investment, while customers who could not otherwise afford to put up solar panels are empowered to consume.
Hanks said there was also a "reasonable argument" that giving the minister power to revoke citizenship breaches the separation of executive and judicial power because that is in effect "a form of punishment".
