Powers being exercised

observable influences of something or someone

a. allowing, authorizing, chartering; b. forbidding, restricting, enforcing; c.helping, funding, advising; d. hindering, obstructing, encumbering; e. encouraging, stimulating, rewarding; f. discouraging, suppressing, penalizing; g. forcing, initiating, insisting; h. forbearing, being patient, waiting. 

Energies being expended 

observable exertions of something or someone

a. struggling, striving, stressed, teetering; b. messaging, signaling, signifying, tacitly coordinating; c. mobilizing, preparing, pending; d. concentrating, gathering, persisting, strategically positioning; e, changing position, rate or direction; f. changing status or form; g.changing its composition or constituents; h. beginning or ending. 

Potentialities being exploited 

observable actions of something or someone responding to latent possibilities that are or could become available such as 

a. enhancements or extensions or deteriorations or shrinkages; b. shifts in the equilibrium or internal distribution; c. something becoming decisive; d. development of irregularities, exceptions, oddities, glitches; e. out of-the-blue arrivals; f. concealments or exposures; g. meetings or joinings or missings or separatings; h. complexifications or simplifications.