That has made him a passionate believer in the EU's power to spread peace and stability.
U.S. influence faces a challenge from China, which is using its newfound commercial power to spread influence in Southeast Asia, and to extend the reach of its navy throughout the South China Sea.
But, Mr. Fukuyama said, he retained his neoconservative principles -- a belief in the universal aspiration for democracy and the use of American power to spread democracy in the world.
I predict a boil wash and a litre of Vanish will do the trick but, by God, two open wounds have the power to spread a lot of pain.
The idea of a European Treasury that would enforce fiscal discipline on wayward countries, while also having the power to spread European Union wealth from healthier countries to ones struggling to pay their debts, is fiercely unpopular among voters in many countries.
My point, though, is that due to the rise of the blogosphere, should anyone take an interest in you, they have the power to spread their thoughts about you more rapidly, with fewer sanctions, to a wider audience, than at any previous time in history.
The image, it turns out, is a representation of geometric Kufic script, an angular 13th-century style of Arabic writing used by the scribes who were the rock stars of early Islamic arts because of their power to spread the word of God.
AIs are pervasive, and are creating the power to spread good and bad.
And the NYT writes that it was shared more than 15,000 times on Facebook — "an illustration of the site's power to spread racist sentiment".
Coupled with this commitment to popularity, was a pedagogic zeal to do everything in his power to spread the message of popular Enlightenment whether in its materialist, its neo-Leibnizian, its skeptical, its Kantian, its Fichtean, its Bardilian, or its distinctively "Reinholdian" form as widely and as effectively as possible.
