The parliament reserves the power to make all laws.

Africa s natural gas reserves amount to about 8 of global reserves.

Second, countries with large accumulations of dollar reserves will be shifting substantial fractions of those reserves into euros.

It has 10 of global oil reserves.

In 2007, the discovery of massive offshore oil reserves promised to make Brazil a significant power in the energy arena as well.

Covering this drop in reserves more than half of gas reserves and a fifth of oil reserves have been consumed with imports implies an annual cost of more than 300 billion.

We have rich reserves of gas and coal.

Selling 2 trillion of reserves will take years.

The country has significant reserves of natural gas.

Iran, it is often claimed, has no need for nuclear power, given its abundant oil and natural gas reserves.

Call In the Reserves

Africa is a continent rich in energy, holding two thirds of the world s reserves of hydro electric power trillions of kilowatt hours representing about half of total world resources.

But Saudi soft power extends beyond custodianship of Mecca and Medina, for Saudi diplomacy is also backed by the largest oil reserves in the world.

Another new dimension of the energy security problem is the manner in which high prices and increased reserves have transferred power to energy producing countries.

Reserves are like savings accounts.

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

But a different assertion of democratic and parliamentary power, this time in the Gulf sheikdom of Kuwait, which possesses 10 of world oil reserves, may prove to be equally important.

The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out trillions of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth.

Certainly, oil reserves are not infinite.

Parks and nature reserves make up 12 of Amsterdam's land area.

Consolidation of power.

Instead, China s reserves mostly underwrite America s debt.

The problem is not a lack of reserves, but Gazprom s investment strategy.

Could something similar be in store for today s holders of large reserves?

But, while the buildup of reserves currently around 7.6 trillion in emerging and developing economies protected them, money going into reserves was money not spent.

The reserves of Jana Arkalyk deposit are estimated at 6 million tons of lead.

The Future of Power

The power of Babel .

Two types of power shifts are occurring in this century power transition and power diffusion.

Abuse of power is evil, but power itself is not.

Now there will be no more freebies for citizens of the country with the world's fourth biggest gas reserves, behind only Qatar in reserves per capita.

Aron exaggerated the power of reason, while Sartre inflated the power of action.

The IMF also has the unique advantage of being the only depositary of international reserves.

It was based on a sort of victory fever and an underestimation of Soviet reserves.

But almost all of the reserves sit idle on commercial banks balance sheets.

Dependency on coffee or cocoa exports requires a build up of precautionary reserves.

Another new dimension of the energy security problem is the manner in which high prices and increased reserves have transferred power to energy producing countries. State owned companies now control far more oil and gas reserves than do the traditional private energy companies once known as the seven sisters.

For Global Growth and Stability, Mobilize the Reserves

Foreign exchange reserves are an immense 1.9 trillion.

Yes, China does pile up reserves in dollars.

Money put into reserves is income not spent.

We'll have to fall back on our reserves.

The creation of America as a major economic power, after all, was made possible by giant steel mills, integrated railway systems, and the mobilization of enormous energy reserves through such ventures as Standard Oil.

In the first four months of this year, China added 44.3 billion of US Treasury securities to its reserves, meaning that such debt now accounts for 38 of China s total foreign exchange reserves.

Local power, central power, now, people power.