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power and community
The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.
As the play unfolds, however, the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community.
If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.
It is the spirit which is the source of a community's drawing power by means of which others are drawn into it from the world outside so that the community grows and prospers.
But as conversation goes on, particularly among the realtors themselves, another image emerges, that of considerable power and influence in the community.
However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.
People acquired power through persuasion, exerted both publicly and privately, public debate, force of will ( often via aggressive flames ), garnering authority and respect by spending much time and effort contributing to the community ( by being a maintainer of a FAQ, for example ; see also Kibo, etc.
Organizing often means building a widely accessible power structure, often with the end goal of distributing power equally throughout the community.
Psychotherapist and professor Andrew Samuels stated that this constitutes " a coup, a power play by a community that has suddenly found itself on the brink of corralling an enormous amount of money ... Everyone has been seduced by CBT's apparent cheapness.
Historically, the international community would have targeted weak states for territorial absorption or colonial domination or, alternatively, such states would fragment into pieces small enough to be effectively administered and secured by a local power.
Since it would be impossible for the Bahá ' í Faith to unite the world if it were itself disunited, the role of the covenant as the guarantor of the unity of the Bahá ' í community becomes inextricably linked with the goal of world unity: " It is evident that the axis of oneness of the world of humanity is the power of the Covenant and nothing else.
Also in the 1970s, the development of Scheme ( a partly functional dialect of Lisp ), as described in the influential Lambda Papers and the 1985 textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, brought awareness of the power of functional programming to the wider programming-languages community.
" he Gospel of Matthew addresses a deviant group within the Jewish community in greater Syria, a reformist Jewish sect seeking influence and power ( relatively unsuccessfully ) within the Jewish community as a whole.
The United States was particularly apprehensive about the role of the German community in Haiti ( approximately 200 in 1910 ), who wielded a disproportionate amount of economic power.
Overall foreign assistance levels have declined since FY 1995, the year elected government was restored to power under a UN mandate, when the international community provided over $ 600 million in aid.
When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, the Jewish community in Kolberg comprised 200 people, and the antisemitic repression by Germany's ruling party led several of them to flee the country.
Orlando Bridgman, who upon his submission to Cromwell had been permitted to practice the law in a private manner, and under that colour had served both as spy and agent for his master, was entrusted with the principal management of this tragic scene ; and in his charge to the Grand Jury, had the assurance to tell them ' That no authority, no single person, or community of men ; not the people collectively or representatively, had any coercive power over the King of England.
This system suffered quite a lot of evolution and eventually passed into a state where wizards took back the power they'd passed into the hands of the people, but still maintain the ballot system as a way for the community to express its opinions.
However, in a popular uprising in 2009 the last elected president Marc Ravalomanana was made to resign and presidential power was transferred in March 2009 to Andry Rajoelina in a move widely viewed by the international community as a coup d ' état.
This new domination was based on the great economic and military power wielded by the organized community of city-dwellers (" citizens ").
Following the relative success in 1964-5 of student organizing as opposed to the failure of community organizing, in 1966 the New Left began to overturn the traditional Marxist focus on the proletariat, arguing that the Left should answer the needs of students and tap student power.
The British activist Peter Tatchell says " The lesbian and gay community has a right to defend itself against public figures who abuse their power and influence to support policies which inflict suffering on homosexuals.
" To this end " ( to achieve the previously specified goal ), he wrote, " it is that men give up all their natural power to the society they enter into, and the community put the legislative power into such hands as they think fit, with this trust, that they shall be governed by declared laws, or else their peace, quiet, and property will still be at the same uncertainty as it was in the state of nature.

power and governance
In keeping with the evolution of the Westminster system of governance, Barbados has evolved into a Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy, meaning that all real power rests with the Parliament.
Foucault's interpretation of governance is also very important in constructing theories of transnational power structure.
Regardless, both parties viewed the episcopacy as bearing the apostolic function of oversight, which both includes, and derives from the power of ordination, and is normative for the governance of the church.
The term government may further mean the process of exercising power in any sort of group scenario, in which case it is synonymous with governance.
As Australia shares its monarch equally with fifteen other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and the sovereign lives predominantly outside New South Wales ' borders, the governor's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on his or her behalf, acting within the principles of parliamentary democracy and responsible government as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and as a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power.
After originally rising to power through a military coup d ' etat in 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's governance of Libya became increasingly centric on the teachings of his Green Book, which he published in the mid-1970s chapter by chapter as a foundation for a new form of government.
Political scientists study matters concerning the allocation and transfer of power in decision making, the roles and systems of governance including governments and international organizations, political behavior and public policies.
* Patrimonialism, a form of governance in which all power, both public and private, flows directly from the leader
Since coming to power, a disproportionate number of leading positions have been awarded to members of the Alawi sect in a move akin to Saddam Hussein's Ba ' ath Party governance in neighbouring Iraq between 1968 and 2003 when persons from Saddam's home town of Tikrit were appointed in prominent roles.
Poster " Study the great path of the Lenin-Stalin Party " Simultaneously, however, many people who profess Marxism or Leninism view Stalinism as a perversion of their ideas ; Trotskyists, in particular, are virulently anti-Stalinist, considering Stalinism a counter-revolutionary style of governance that used vaguely Marxist-sounding rhetoric to achieve power.
As Canada shares its monarch equally with fifteen other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and the sovereign lives predominantly outside Canada's borders, the governor general's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on his or her behalf, acting within the principles of parliamentary democracy and responsible government as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and as a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power.
* China's modern power house, BBC article discussing the role of Guanxi in the modern governance of China.
Additionally, the Roman model of governance inspired many political thinkers over the centuries, and today's modern representative democracies imitate more the Roman than the Greek models because it was a state in which supreme power was held by the people and their elected representatives, and which had an elected or nominated a leader .. Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives as opposed to a direct democracy, a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly.
The Crown today primarily functions as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power, the sovereign acting as a custodian of the Crown's democratic powers and a representation of the " power of the people above government and political parties.
Determined never to allow republican governance to flower again, as she felt they led to corruption and civil war, and devoted to bringing Tiberius to power and then maintaining him there, she is involved in nearly every death or disgrace in the Julio-Claudian family up to the time of her death.
Jiang's biggest aim in the economy was stability, and he believed that a stable government with highly centralised power would be a prerequisite, choosing to postpone political reform, which in many facets of governance exacerbated the on-going problems.
He divided political life of his ideal for China into two sets of ' powers ': the power of politics and the power of governance.
The power of governance ( 治權, zhìquán ) are the powers of administration.
Marcos, now free from day-to-day governance which was left mostly to Enrile using his power to settle scores against old rivals, such as the Lopezes, who were always opposed to the Marcos administration.
While exploiting the authority and resources of the state, totalitarianism gains its dynamic by combining with other forms of power, such as evangelical religions, and most notably by encouraging a symbiotic relationship between traditional government and the system of " private " governance represented by the modern business corporation.
Home rule is the power of a constituent part ( administrative division ) of a state to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been deputed to it by the central government.
For Guderian it was a personal triumph but in the vicious power struggle of Nazi governance and management even Guderian found his power limited.

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