Another factor is that the transition of power from Mr. Obuchi to Mr. Mori, after a brief caretaker's turn by Mikio Aoki, is regarded by many Japanese as back-room dealing unworthy of a major economic power and putative democracy.
The law similarly gives the DNI control over the agencies' personnel, but here too there is devilment in the detail: in practice, the DNI can veto the appointment of some second-tier officials, but he will not be able to sack agency chiefs.To shore up the DNI's putative powers, Mr Bush has suggested that Mr Negroponte, not Mr Goss, will deliver his morning intelligence briefing.
Finally, Maudemarie Clark has argued that Nietzsche could not have accepted the very strongest form of the doctrine of the will to power — namely, that all force, animate and inanimate, is will to power — given the putative argument he gives for it.
But Iran doesn't hold elections for supreme leader — Ayatollah Ali Khameini will hold that post for the indefinite future — and the failed presidency of Mohammad Khatami from 1997 to 2005 reminds us that the power of a putative reformist is illusory.
In the past unions had been a "stabilising influence" on the party in the town, he suggested, using their "putative power" sensibly in recruitment and selection.
There was a putative power-pop supergroup, Tinted Windows — with members of Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne and Hanson, singing Cheap Trick-style songs without the smirks — as well as a recently defected 23-year-old Cuban jazz pianist, Alfredo Rodriguez, not to mention the Japanese female hard-rock trio Bo Peep or the sitar-wielding Anglo-Indian dance-music singer Bishi.
It was, in a word, where you wanted to be if you had enough of a résumé Flynn was a retired lieutenant general, and a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and wanted to trade your credibility in for a little bit of power in a putative Trump Administration, or for an insider aura to market.
This feature of quantum mechanics allows one to manipulate the information stored in unmeasured qubits with quantum gates, and is one of the sources for the putative power of quantum computers.
Notwithstanding the excitement around the discovery of Shor's algorithm, and apart from the almost insurmountable problem of practically realizing and implementing a large scale quantum computer, a crucial theoretical question remains open, namely, what physical resources are responsible for the putative power of quantum computing?
But the productivity of capitalist nations proved greater than the putative power of the Soviet Union.
