power

valta

voima

teho

antaa energiaa, antaa tehoa puhekieltä ability Ability to coercion coerce, influence or control.
puhekieltä ability Ability to affect or influence.
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.

Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.(..)The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.

Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. ... We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.

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