Four factors, none of them new but each destabilizing on its own, are compounding one another lack of hope, dangerous governmental policies, a regional power vacuum, and the absence of active external mediation.

The Poisons Act 1984 regulates the importation, possession, manufacturing, compounding, storage, transport and sale of poisons.

Compounding that, the material of choice, laminate, that I was trying to highlight, only bends in two dimensions.

Compounding these challenges is our heavy dependence on the natural environment to support our tourism industry, the lifeblood of the economies of our nations.

Moreover, Israel, the occupying Power, has tightened its comprehensive siege on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, in violation of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the entire Palestinian population. The siege has isolated the Palestinian population in their towns, further compounding their socio economic hardships.

Compounding the problem, no one truly understands the precise connections among Russian and European institutions and markets. The collapse of LTCM in 1998 was completely unexpected.

Compounding the economic impact already described is the desire of the United States Government to impede academic, scientific, cultural and sporting exchanges between the two peoples

For us to be unaware of what is being adopted here would mean compounding the lack of general awareness about decisions with an impact on vital areas of people's lives.

Rapid urbanization in most developing countries has caused deterioration in shelter conditions for the urban poor while conflicts and disasters are compounding the daunting task of creating sustainable human settlements.

Complexity is the problem that any theory of biology has to solve, and you can't solve it by postulating an agent that is even more complex, thereby simply compounding the problem.

Compounding the problem is the general lack of technical and professional expertise in Liberia to replace those who may be removed from office after the elections in the context of a new political climate.

However, as I pointed out in last month's briefing, we are concerned by reports of a slow but steady increase in violent incidents, compounding a corresponding deterioration in trust and confidence between the two sides.

At the same time, it is clear that the root causes and compounding factors of these more serious humanitarian crises, whether they occur in Africa or elsewhere, do not lend themselves to an easy solution.

That's the power of visual storytelling, that's the power of dance, that's the power of music the power of not knowing.

Compounding developments in the energy markets, output growth in two important sources of external demand in the region, the United States of America and Japan, slowed somewhat in the former and showed signs of a recession in the latter in the second half of 2004.

Local power, central power, now, people power.

The power plant of tomorrow is no power plant.

I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

Domestic supply disruptions are now fueling inflation and compounding the problems of a subsidy laden national budget. They have also aggravated the weakness of external finances, contributing to a sharp drop in international reserves that has been contained only by exceptional loans and deposits from abroad.

It is a classic public goods problem in principle, it is in individual countries self interest not to take action, while the rest of the world does. Compounding the challenge further is the fact that the benefits of actions taken today accrue in the distant future.

In past decades, owing to historical and other reasons, developing countries have not been able to overcome their financial difficulties. Compounding that is the shortage of domestic financial resources and the unfulfilled international financial aid commitments. As a result, a development deficit has persisted.

And if we're going to deal with these two great power shifts that I've described, the power shift represented by transition among states, the power shift represented by diffusion of power away from all states, we're going to have to develop a new narrative of power in which we combine hard and soft power into strategies of smart power.

One is power transition, which is change of power amongst states.

Compounding the problem, the diversity in banks capital ratios also indicates a dramatic distortion of the international playing field, as increasingly competitive conditions in financial markets have led to national discretion in applying the rules. Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to impose.

Oil prices have fallen from above 78 per barrel in mid July to less than 60 in early October. The drop due in no small measure to an easing of tensions over Iran s nuclear program is costing the Iranian government money, compounding the regime s domestic problems.

It ties together all this into the power of expectation and the power of belief.

The positions recruited by the Representative Office of Power Construction Corporation of China include company clerk, power plant site management, and power plant construction engineers.

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Some countries hit by the tsunamis experienced the problem of internal displacement for the first time, while in others, the tsunamis struck areas of ongoing armed conflict and internal displacement, exacerbating pre existing humanitarian crises and forcing many persons previously displaced by violence to flee once again, further compounding their plight.

Traditionally, the way people thought about power was primarily in terms of military power.

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Likewise, food scarcity is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand. At the same time, rising incomes are altering people s diets, which now include more animal based proteins, further compounding Asia s food challenges.

For me the policing stood for power to correct, power to prevent and power to detect.

The globalization of power we talk about the globalization of markets, but actually it's the globalization of real power.

The result of the invention of the steam engine was that human power was replaced by mechanical power.

Well unfortunately, power corrupts, and so people will do lots of things to get power and to stay in power, including doing bad things to elections.

But recently, any annual report of a power company doesn't have a power station on it.

And we could also produce power cables, to transfer enormous amounts of current between power stations.

And it was a world of, as I say, not local power, but now central power.

Free and fair elections bring power to people, thus eliminating the power of cleptocratic pseudo elites.

It's the power of focus.

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