William M. Tweed, known as " Boss " Tweed, ran an efficient and corrupt political machine based on political patronage | patronage and Graft ( politics ) | graft.

* Graft ( politics )

( 1999 – 2000 ) for DC's imprint Homage ), including relatively little known titles and one-shots such as Skin Graft, The Last One, The Heart of the Beast ( 1994 ), Mobfire, Terminal City, Menz Insana, The Girl Who Would Be Death, Heavy Liquid, Pulp Fantastic and Accelerate.

Graft patency is dependent on a number of factors, including the type of graft used ( internal thoracic artery, radial artery, or great saphenous vein ), the size or the coronary artery that the graft is anastomosed with, and, of course, the skill of the surgeon ( s ) performing the procedure.

She co-authored Oklahoma ’ s Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Legalized Robbery ( 1923 ), an influential pamphlet, with Charles H. Fabens of the American Indian Defense Association and Matthew K. Sniffen of the Indian Rights Association.

: See mumps ( parotiditis epidemica ), Sjögren's syndrome, Mucocele, Graft versus host disease and Salivary gland neoplasm.

* Graft ( Netherlands ), a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp

* Graft ( 1915 serial ), a 1915 film serial

* Graft ( 1931 film ), a 1931 film featuring Boris Karloff

This lenition is now often absent due to influence from other dialects, for example, the name of Santa Claus, Santiglaus, is now often pronounced with or, as is the word Graft ( Standard German Kraft ), which traditionally has a lenis sound, now also and.

The quartet at Disneyland as of 2010 normally consists of Jon Schoenherz ( lead ), Drew Tablak ( tenor ), Eulis Kay ( baritone ) and Jim Campbell ( bass ) with substitutions by Frank Romeo ( bass ), Isaac James ( lead ), Jim Graft ( bass ), Gabriel Oliva ( bass-lead ), Joe Sark, John Helms ( lead ), Mark Donahue ( lead ), Jason Currie ( baritone ), Allen Everman ( baritone ), Nathan Shrake ( tenor ), Matt Sanchez ( tenor ), Jeremy Kocal ( tenor ), David Marchesano ( lead ), Manuel Rodriguez-Ruiz ( bass ).

Joseph Coleman de Graft, known as Joe de Graft ( 2 April 1924 – 1 November 1978 ), was a prominent Ghanaian writer, playwright and dramatist who was appointed the first director of the Ghana Drama Studio in 1962.

Graft is a form of political corruption that can be defined as an unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain.

Graft and corruption charges permeated Harding's Department of Justice ; bootleggers confiscated tens of thousands cases of whiskey through bribery and kickbacks.

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

Much of the story line revolves around various parties attacking or repairing ansibles, and around the internal politics of ISC ( InterStellar Communications ), which holds a monopoly on the ansible technology.

Though respected for their contributions to various academic disciplines ( respectively mathematics, linguistics, and literature ), the three men became known to the general public only by making often-controversial and disputed pronouncements on politics and public policy that would not be regarded as noteworthy if offered by a medical doctor or skilled tradesman.

* Base ( politics ), a group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates

The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev ( who was not a communist himself, but a member of the elitarian political organization " Zveno ", working together with the communists ), took full control of domestic politics in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is that " War is the continuation of Politik by other means " ( Politik being variously translated as ' policy ' or ' politics ,' terms with very different implications ), a description that has won wide acceptance.

* Deposition ( politics ), the removal of a person of authority from political power

Mesnager ( 1717 ), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy ( 1718 ), a satire on European politics and religion, professedly written by a Muslim in Paris.

The subject addresses such matters as tax incidence ( who really pays a particular tax ), cost-benefit analysis of government programs, effects on economic efficiency and income distribution of different kinds of spending and taxes, and fiscal politics.

Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom has been a significant element in British politics since the inception of the European Economic Community ( EEC ), the predecessor to the EU.

* Fusionism ( politics ), the combination of libertarianism and various types of conservatives

Futurism that was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who founded the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.

The Fujiwara was one of the four great families that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian Period ( 794-1185 ), and the most important of them at that time.

His book Homage to Catalonia ( 1938 ), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, is widely acclaimed, as are his numerous essays on politics, literature, language and culture.

In an earlier work from 1793 dealing with the ideals and politics of the French Revolution, Beiträge zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums über die Französische Revolution ( Contributions to the Correction of the Public's Judgment concerning the French Revolution ), he called Jews a " state within a state " that could " undermine " the German nation.

After negotiations, the Saarland Greens rejected the option of a left-wing ' red-red-green ' coalition with the SPD and The Left ( Die Linke ) in order to form a centre-right state government with the CDU and Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), a historical first time that a Jamaica coalition has formed in German politics.

Aelia Galla Placidia ( 392 – November 27, 450 ), daughter of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, was the Regent for Emperor Valentinian III from 423 until his majority in 437, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.

In 1952 he began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University, then at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, where he taught philosophy and politics, and finally ( by then he was past the usual retirement age ), at the University of California, San Diego.

His grandson, also named Henry ( 1770 – 1846 ), had a long career in politics.

Prewar ' epistemic communities ,' such as the International Association for Labour Legislation ( IALL ), founded in 1900, and political networks, such as the Socialist Second International, were a decisive factor in the institutionalization of international labour politics.

For Arthur Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the most free that the pure intellect can be from the dictates of will ; here we contemplate perfection of form without any kind of worldly agenda, and thus any intrusion of utility or politics would ruin the point of the beauty.

Lewontin, Gould and Eldredge were thus more interested in dialectical materialism as a heuristic, than a dogmatic form of ' truth ' or a statement of their politics.

They are generally seen as tied to the " young guard " of Fatah politics, organizing young members on the street level, but it is not clear that they form a faction in themselves inside Fatah politics ; rather, different Brigades units may be tied to different Fatah factional leaders.

and since then, freedom as a form of political action has been neglected, even though, as she says, freedom is " the raison d ' être of politics.

Some observers suggest Islamism's tenets are less strict, and can be defined as a form of identity politics or " support for identity, authenticity, broader regionalism, revivalism, revitalization of the community ".

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why ( or even if ) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

The politics of Puerto Rico take place in the framework of a republican democratic form of government that is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States of America as an organized unincorporated territory.

Menzies transferred to federal politics in 1934, representing the United Australia Party ( UAP — the Nationalists had merged with other non-Labor groups to form the UAP during his tenure as a state parliamentarian ) in the upper-class Melbourne electorate of Kooyong.

The politics of Singapore takes the form of a parliamentary representative democratic republic whereby the President of Singapore is the head of state, the Prime Minister of Singapore is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

At this point, politics entered into the formation of nuclear strategy in the form of President Harry S. Truman.

Despite ideological differences and holding territorial claims on the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler admired Stalin and his politics and believed that Stalin was in effect transforming Soviet Bolshevism into a form of Nazism.

Barro argues in favor of adopting some form of " monetary constitution " that will provide stability to monetary policy rather than allowing decisions about monetary policy to be made on the basis of politics, but suggests that what form this constitution takes — for example, a gold standard, some other commodity-based standard, or a fiat currency with fixed rules for determining the quantity of money — is considerably less important.

I said that I'm nominating a dear friend, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no place for politics in any art form.

The Four Pillars of the Green Party are a foundational statement of Green politics and form the basis of many worldwide Green parties.

Dittmer and Chen argue that the emphasis on politics made language a very effective form of propaganda, but “ also transformed it into a jargon of stereotypes — pompous, repetitive, and boring .” To distance itself from the era, Deng Xiaoping's government cut back heavily on the use of political slogans.

Philosopher Peter Hallward argues that they are an aristocratic form of politics.

The philosopher Peter Hallward argues that they are an aristocratic form of politics.

Both Foucault and the revolutionaries were highly critical of modernity and sought a new form of politics, they both also looked up to those who risked their lives for ideals ; and both looked to the past for inspiration.

Later on when Foucault went to Iran “ to be there at the birth of a new form of ideas ,” he wrote that the new “ Muslim ” style of politics could signal the beginning of a new form of “ political spirituality ,” not just for the Middle East, but also for Europe, which had adopted the practice of secular politics ever since the French Revolution.