Next came service in the far east as a United Kingdom commissioner in Singapore during the difficult years (1961-65) when the newly created Malaysia was, in the face of fierce opposition from neighbouring powers, striving to become an independent state within the Commonwealth.
Even so, the 15-member council has held eight meetings on Ukraine, as Western powers strive to keep up the pressure on Moscow.
"Each thing, as far as it can by its own power, strives to persevere in its being".
In IIIp6 Spinoza says that "Each thing, as far as it can by its own power, strives to persevere in is own being".
In the case, when a CEO simultaneously holds also the CTO position, his or her organizational power strives to its logical maximum.
IIIp6, which articulates the conatus doctrine according to which "each thing, as far as it can by its own power, strives to persevere in its own being", has been the subject of a great amount of interpretive puzzlement in the literature.
Since both distortions of power strive to control others, which is a set-up for experiencing helplessness, due to the choices of others laying way out of the scope of our mastery and typically have unfavorable consequences.
Thus the form or essence of a thing, which individuates it, and whose retention through change constitutes the persistence of an individual, just is its inherent and individual power of striving to retain just form, hence to resist those extrinsic determinants that would diminish its power and destroy it.
It is no longer at the center of a roiling drama of power and striving.
All beings are naturally endowed with such a power or striving.
