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a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.

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From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.
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And the fact that satire unnerves the intolerant is evidence of its positive power.
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Would the Democrats rescind those rights if they were to return to power?
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What it endangers is a narrow conception of Russian power, understood through the eyes of its dictatorial leader.
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For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
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Wharton smiled at this littleness in so great a man, but determined that he should feel the power he despised.
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He brings out all their power, brilliancy and careering wildness, and makes the greatest sensation of them.
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She knew that she alone of all human beings was gifted with the power to understand and fully sympathize with him.
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We live in an age that is at best about a century and a half old—the age of machinery and power.
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