Even so, the 15-member council has held eight meetings on Ukraine, as Western powers strive to keep up the pressure on Moscow.
Genetic traits that help males compete for access to females -- such as power striving -- will be passed on to their sons.
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.
On the other hand, "conari" is also cognate with a perfectly good Spinozistic word, "conatus", which is his term in the Ethics for an individual's inherent power of striving to persevere in its being (IIp6).
And, above all, China, which views itself as having been historically kicked around and bullied by other Great Powers, must strive not to succumb to the very understandable temptation – especially as it grows stronger — to put the shoe on the other foot and exercise dominance over lesser powers.
"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.
