The French example was not enough; swollen with power and self-confidence, we had to learn the lesson ourselves, at a terrible cost.
The significance of the "smoking gun" Enron memos that came to light a few days ago is that they show exactly how swell those power executives really were.
Yet today the superpowers, their nuclear arsenals swollen with the destructive power of a million Hiroshimas, have lost much of their strength and influence in world affairs.
At the meeting, Mr. Xi and the other leaders vowed a more determined and concerted effort to act on promises of a bigger role for markets after a decade in which state power has swollen.
"His rich, flexible baritone soared and swelled with enormous power," Time magazine wrote.
When those four voices swell into full power, it's overwhelming – a stirring, sock-it-to-me soul.
The propagation characteristics of swell energy are important for applications such as swell wave power generation, ocean wave forecasting, disaster prevention and reduction, etc.
(1) empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis and 6-hourly zonaveragesges of swell wave power density (WPD) show that the Indian Ocean swell energy has an obvious but fluctuating northeastward propagation.
Who could give up even the quotidian luxury of choosing, that small swell of power: to walk or to drive?
The hulking members of the Power Team veins budged, muscles swollen, eyes lit from radiant fire within knew this.
