When the United States intervened on behalf of Libya's rebels, skeptics worried that we could end up splitting the country in two, empowering Islamic radicals and creating a bigger humanitarian disaster than the one we hoped to forestall.
"But there was no one empowered in any process in Occupy Wall Street to engage in that dialogue".
It was as if, said Gabriella Sonam, a massage therapist who had biked up from the East Village, no one empowered in these places with electricity even knew a national emergency was going on just across the street.
Will the next front-page celebrity story cover Justin Bieber's amazing, thought-provoking, empowerinewnew haircut?
When a parent relates to a child, or a self-confident and well-adjusted adolescent to a depressed and distraught friend, for example, they do not relate as two business persons do during a contract negotiation, but as two, differentially empowered people, trying to resolve an issue of mutual concern.
In the cases of Modi and Trump, two recently empowered strongmen presiding over relatively robust democratic systems, the question is whether their populism and authoritarian instincts will allow them to alter the laws of democratic accountability.
Despite protests that the presence of two candidates empowered with the authority to prohibit politicians from rival parties to run in the elections constituted a clash of interests, the court nevertheless accepted their recommendations.
When one reaches "the age of consent" one is empowered to make certain sorts of binding agreements contracts.
On account of the unacceptably high fertility and mortality indicators, the eight Empowered Action Group (EAG) states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh) and Assam are designated as 'High Focus States' by the Government of India.
One newly empowered school board, in the mainly black Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, dismissed a group of teachers, many of whom were Jewish.
