Mr Jobs was said by an engineer in the early years of Apple to emit a "reality distortion?（扭曲）field", such were his powers of persuasion.

Psychological research shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers.

Small wonder that an Indian legend described Devils Tower as being formed by supernatural powers.

Such findings, he says, suggest that "this network can be called on to process and store the kind of information taught in school—potentially giving students access to a range of untapped mental powers".

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention.

I don't know how many people would have done that; they would have listened to their agents or the studio powers.

The studio powers didn't like his agent.

They are potential powers we possess: energy, skill, sound judgment, creative ideas — even physical strength greater than most of US realize.

It is stuck because the euro zone's dominant powers, France and Germany, agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone, but disagree about what to harmonies.

On the overturned provisions the majority held Congress had deliberately "occupied the field" and Arizona had thus intruded on the federal's privileged powers.

Some powers do belong exclusively to the federal government, and control of citizenship and the borders is among them.

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.