What underpins power - all kinds of power - is economic strength, and in this respect the US is the subject of both a short-term crisis - the twin deficits - and a longer-term constraint, namely the fact that it accounts for a declining share of global GDP.
But the failure to also pursue political corruption and money laundering underpinning cartel power has left the state weaker than it was beforehand, Buscaglia said.
Underpinning the power structure of the Risen Empire, which rules untold billions of people on 80 far-flung planets, is a technology -- the "Lazarus symbiant" -- that offers immortality to a selected few.
To quote my exchange with Julian Baggini once again, there's a paradox underpinning the power of even the most intricate technological manipulations: that "the methods used to manipulate us are more sophisticated than ever, but precisely because knowledge of how to do this has grown, we are more able to defend ourselves".
A recent publication demonstrated that the angiotensin MasR axis controls similar or even identical signals in both cirrhotic rats and patients [ 218], again underpinning the power of animal experimentation.
The extra twist of a personal family drama underpinning a political power struggle lent the Labour Party leadership plot Shakespearian intensity.
Concentrated solar thermal is unique in that it can provide large-scale reliable base load renewable power, underpinning and assisting the operation of the electricity grid.
Yet, as Sheller makes clear, aluminum was important not only in twentieth-century technology, innovation, architecture, and design but also in underpinning global military power, uneven development, and crucial environmental and health concerns.
They have gradually dropped away from being obvious, but the logic underpinning them still powers the way we think about search engines.
When enough neutrons produce further fissions rather than escaping, bouncing off or being absorbed by atoms that do not split the process becomes self-sustaining.The technology underpinning civilian nuclear power-generation has not progressed much since the 1950s when a small number of prototype commercial reactors were first brought online.
