America s national interests thus dictate a change of policy. But there is also another powerful rationale for doing so treating fairly those who are poorer and less powerful is the morally right thing to do.

A personal experience, when I was at MIT computer taking up about the size of this room, less powerful than the computer in your cell phone.

Business elites were not any less politically powerful back then. But they used their influence to advance an agenda that was broadly in the national interest.

Soaring oil and gas prices have made Russia more powerful, less co operative, and less interested in joining the West. Today, Europeans cannot even agree on the nature of the Russian regime, let alone what policy to adopt towards it.

On the one hand, many participants expressed reservations about the notion of international responsibility to protect civilians threatened by genocide or other extreme violations of human rights, fearing that it would be used by powerful States as a pretext for intervention in less powerful ones.

And that's a very powerful thing. Progression is powerful.

And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo was less than a year ago. Indeed, Russia s powerful have at their disposal assets that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak s regime lacked.

That's a very powerful idea, and it's a very powerful reality.

Essentially, community radio provides that crucial balance to the powerful media conglomerates that operate on the principle that there is less profit in media productions that promote and protect the interests of the people.

Now this is obviously a powerful, some might say dangerously powerful, insight.

Pretty powerful.

I'm powerful.

Very powerful.

Very powerful.

The solution is to focus less on women and more on elevating the value of care and expanding the roles and choices open to men. Electing and appointing more women to powerful roles remains essential.

Some economists point out that high tax rates in Europe make work less rewarding and thus leisure more attractive. Other economists see Europe s powerful labor unions as an important determinant in European attitudes towards work.

Guinean women are among the poorest of the poor they are not only poor in the economic sense but they are also less powerful, if we consider their relative position in the decision making process.

Really powerful dynamic.

This is powerful.

Very, very powerful.

Story is powerful.

And it's very powerful.

It's very powerful work.

Mexico s Powerful Energy Reforms

North Korea s Powerful Weakness

Macroeconomic policies interact with on the ground microeconomic realities in subtle but powerful, rarely remarked upon ways. Simply put, Europe s microeconomic structure makes the same growth based macroeconomic policies less effective in the European Union than in the US.

So actually we are getting less from more for less and less people.

Less meat, less junk, more plants.

Women feel chronically less powerful than men, so this is not surprising. But the other thing I noticed is that it also seemed to be related to the extent to which the students were participating, and how well they were participating.

First, rigid rules that wipe out shareholders and penalize long term creditors are a clear deterrent from bankers point of view. Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of powerful domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.

It's more with less and less again.

Fiona's letters gradually came less and less.

These are very powerful technologies.

So this is very powerful.

So this evidence is powerful.

This is actually very powerful.

The Powerlessness of the Powerful

Their arsenal is very powerful.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

I say, less and less the human touch.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Fiona's letters were becoming less and less frequent.

Letters from Fiona came gradually less and less.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

But it is difficult to believe that when a wrong has been done, a sincere apology will not have some restorative impact. In public, as in private life, honest apologies are a powerful tool, and should be used less nervously and more often.