Representative Billy Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said giving the federal government authority to settle power line disputes would encourage needed investment in transmission systems.
He had other problems, not the least of which was the fact that his adopted Shia faith was the doctrine not of settled power but of permanent argument; at its heart was a distrust of all secular government; Abbas needed loyalty.
By the 5th century, however, the settled powers needed their hinterlands enough to foster client states: the Byzantines oversaw the Ghassānid kingdom; the Persians oversaw the Lakhmid; and the Yemenis (prior to the Abyssinian invasion) had Kindah.
Energy regulators approved a $110 million payment by the Kroger Company, the largest supermarket chain in the country, to Dynegy Inc. to settle power-supply contracts agreed during California's energy crisis in early 2001.
Mr Rajapaksa had ruled since 2005 and, along with his family, several members of which occupied the country's most powerful posts, had given the impression of settling into power for eternity.
While Britain enjoys its May bank holiday weekend, Team Boris will be settling into power.
If you're settling with power at fifty feet, you're going to hit the ground".
If you're settling with power at two thousand feet, you've got plenty of time to recover.
Settling with power, also known as vortex ring state, occurs when a helicopter settles into the wash produced by its own rotor system.
Marine Corps officials said that while the investigation was not yet complete, the helicopter most likely lost aerodynamic lift in a phenomenon known as "settling with power".
