Directly controls city's 110 high schools, with power to choose principals and decide admissions policies.

Unfortunately, the major powers decided what was best for the indigenous population without consulting it.

"I think that wealth and power have always decided matters."

However, the two powers decided instead to turn to negotiations.

"A revolution like this would not happen if the power had not decided to leave."

Finally, a higher power decided that I could "tour" around town in the company of four armed policemen.

"They have all the power to decide about your career, about promotion and so on," she said.

A higher power decides to give them what they ask for:

Judges hold the power to decide how long, and under what conditions, patients may be held against their will.

The powers that be back in Trapani had decided otherwise, though, and here he was.