Its military forces are designed, in part, to maintain its influence with America and its place at the international top table: powerful enough to be taken seriously and ready to fight on "day one" of a war alongside America.
The article offers interesting insights into what makes the man tipped to be a strong contender for India's top job powerful, and what stands in his way of changing India as we know it.
If all sides of the nation's debates don't know the facts, the president argued, then "democracy breaks down," extreme voices rise to the top, and "powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence".
Over a two-day feature, listing the top 100 powerful Brits, called the Brollywood 100, Working Title Film's co-chairmen were placed at number one, over perhaps the more familiar names of Hugh Grant (number 12), Jude Law (9) and Kate Winslet (7).
We've moved on to caring about what's built on top of powerful devices: software.
A smug, amoral response from the people at the top of powerful tech companies isn't what we need.
Tech industries suffer from a noticeable lack of strong female leadership at the top, while powerful women have mostly flocked to traditional industries.
Take Brian Williams, the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News in the US or Jeremy Clarkson, the now former co-presenter of the BBC show Top Gear — powerful and charismatic people who have brought creativity and recognition to their organisation.
Nilsen is described as having a "strong artistic presence" and a voice which has a "large register", which is "comfortably clear" with a "steady top and powerful down".
In homage to Golden Age Hollywood's favorite see-and-be-seen eatery, 1600 VINE has for the last four years been the sponsor and served as the setting of a bi-annual honors program in which top stars, powerful movie-town unions and organizations and the Los Angeles City Council join in an effort to get Hollywood to come home to Hollywood.
