In many societies, what we regard as corruption, favoritism, and personal influence are so accepted as consistent with the mores of officialdom and so integral a part of routine administrative practice that any attempt to force their elimination will be regarded by the local leadership as not only unwarranted but unfriendly.

But due to the many applicants on file, would he co-operate and write a personal letter giving them his son's motivation, interests and his qualifications for leadership??

An attempted surprise attack against the crusader camp failed despite the Emperor's personal leadership.

One of his main reasons for staying on as leader was to frustrate the leadership ambitions of Herbert Morrison, whom Attlee disliked for political and personal reasons.

Through these work projects, Corps Members develop a strong work ethic, strengthen their leadership skills, and learn how to take personal responsibility for their actions.

At this congress, Zamenhof officially resigned his leadership of the Esperanto movement, as he did not want personal prejudice against himself ( or anti-Semitism ) to hinder the progress of the language.

Campbell labeled job-specific task proficiency and non-job-specific task proficiency as in-role dimensions, while written and oral communication, demonstrating effort, maintaining personal discipline, facilitating peer and team performance, supervision and leadership and management and administration are labeled as extra-role dimensions.

It also teaches that everyone is entitled to personal revelation with respect to his or her stewardship ( leadership responsibility ).

The women's sons gained their status from their mother's families ; they were part of hereditary leadership lines who exercised power and accumulated personal wealth in their changing Native American societies.

Interpersonal communication and public speaking have several components that embrace such things as motivational speaking, leadership / personal development, business, customer service, large group communication, and mass communication.

Under his personal leadership, his forces defeated the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin, leading the way to his re-capture of Palestine, which had been seized from the Fatimid Egyptians by the Crusaders 88 years earlier.

It seems that the resources available to the contras was squandered, abused, and used for the personal gain of the leadership.

His leadership style was however, quite different than that of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in that he signed his letters to the Bahá ' ís as " your true brother ", and he did not refer to his own personal role, but instead to the institution of the guardianship.

The Whigs, under Lord Shaftesbury's leadership, wished to exclude the Duke of York ( who later became King James II ) from the throne due to his personal character, his Catholicism, his favouring of monarchical absolutism, his connections to France and the effects of the Popish Plot.

Despite the moderate tone of Peng's letter, Mao took it as a personal attack against his leadership.

Individual capital, the economic view of talent, comprises inalienable or personal traits of persons, tied to their bodies and available only through their own free will, such as skill, creativity, enterprise, courage, capacity for moral example, non-communicable wisdom, invention or empathy, non-transferable personal trust and leadership.

Lysenko proved himself very useful to the Soviet leadership by reengaging peasants to return to work, helping to secure from them a personal stake in the overall success of the Soviet revolutionary experiment.

* The USSR Committee for State Security ( KGB ), responsible for the political police, CI, intelligence, personal protection ( of the leadership ), and confidential communications.

From the Gramsci analysis derived the political science denotation of hegemony as leadership ; thus, the historical example of Prussia as the militarily and culturally predominant province of the German Empire ( Second Reich 1871 – 1918 ); and the personal and intellectual predominance of Napoleon Bonaparte upon the French Consulate ( 1799 – 1804 ).

* The Castle Rock Foundation, an American foundation which seeks to promote free enterprise, limited government, individual rights, and personal responsibility and leadership

Most of the extant verses show him writing in the role of a political activist determined to assert personal authority and leadership and they have been described by the German classicist Wilamowitz as a " versified harangue " ( Eine Volksrede in Versen ).

Under Robespierre ’ s leadership, members of various revolutionary factions and groups were executed including the Hébertists and the Dantonists, many of whom had been Robespierre ’ s personal friends.

These are designed to instill character, citizenship, personal fitness, and leadership in boys through a structured program of outdoor activities.

Among measures in anticipation of crisis are plans to inject into the turmoil as assistants of key decision makers qualified persons who are cognizant of the corrosive effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are also able to raise calm and realistic voices when overburdened leaders near the limit of self-control.

Hearst hopped into a private railroad car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal canvass for delegates in the western and southern states, always wearing a frock coat, listening intently to local politicians, and generally making a good impression.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.

As they move through the college years our young men and women are `` socialized '' into a broadly similar culture, at the level of personal behavior.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

Among other things, besides the nature of your house and how much heat finds its way into its various rooms from the outside, it will depend upon your personal habits and the makeup of your family.

Do patriots everywhere know enough about how the persecution of the Jews in Germany and later in the occupied countries contributed to terrorizing the populations, splitting apart individuals and groups, arousing the meanest and most dishonest impulses, pulverizing trust and personal dignity, and finally forcing people to follow their masters into the abyss by making them partners in unspeakable crimes??

On the other hand, many a pastor is so absorbed in ministering to the intimate, personal needs of individuals in his congregation that he does little or nothing to lead them into a sense of social responsibility and world mission.

You can receive God into your heart and life by a step of personal faith.

Individuals possessing unusual gifts and great personal power were transmuted at death into awesome spirits ; ;

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Another interesting insight into Athenian democracy comes from the law that excluded from decisions of war those citizens who had property close to the city walls-on the basis that they had a personal interest in the outcome of such debates because the practice of an invading army at the time was to destroy the land outside the walls.

Further, proponents of the necessity of the personal apostolic succession of bishops within the Church point to the universal practice of the undivided early Church ( up to AD 431 ), before being divided into the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

Her journals, which span several decades, provide a deeply explorative insight into her personal life and relationships.

She sends out a personal invitation ; its receipt sends the women into a frenzy, imagining " A Weekend in the Country ".

Many of these works have been translated into English by his close personal friend, now deceased, Yehuda Hanegbi.

") He was determined not to fight until he thought there had been sufficient preparation for a decisive victory, and put into action his beliefs with the gathering of resources, detailed planning, the training of troops — especially in clearing minefields and fighting at night — and in the use of 252 of the latest American-built Sherman tanks, 90 M7 Priest self-propelled howitzers, and making a personal visit to every unit involved in the offensive.

But I find it increasingly difficult to take into account the personal aspect of their convictions.

And it is a rule of universal application that no one, having such duties to discharge, shall be allowed to enter into engagements in which he has, or can have, a personal interest conflicting or which possibly may conflict, with the interests of those whom he is bound to protect ...

Indeed, he tries to reinvent these notions from a personal point of view and to introduce them into human relationships.

In particular the replacement of the inaccurate musket with the rifle made personal concealment in battle into a survival skill.

Charlotte believed that art was most convincing when based on personal experience ; in Jane Eyre she transformed this experience into a novel with universal appeal.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

The use of personal names as rhymes continued into the late 20th century, for example " Tony Blairs " meaning " flares ", as in trousers with a wide bottom ( previously this was " Lionel Blairs " and this change illustrates the ongoing mutation of the forms of expression ) and " Britney Spears ", meaning " beers ".