Word: consent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken refuge from invading U.S. troops on Christmas Eve. "We wouldn't do it for Noriega the man," said a Cuban diplomat. "This would be our way of standing up for nonintervention and, frankly, sticking it to the gringos." Officials in Washington, however, swore they would not consent to a transfer of Noriega unless he went much farther away than Cuba, to a country where he would have no chance to continue meddling in Panama...
Gorbachev also appears to have learned, or sensed instinctively, what Plato and Maimonides knew: the greatest statesmen are therapists. A ruler becomes a leader and governs legitimately only when he encourages people to face the truth about themselves and therefore causes them to consent freely to their governance...
...Eastern Europe sent their leaders and the world when they filled the streets with powerful yet peaceful protests. Governments, even ones as ruthless as the now toppled Rumanian regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, realized that they cannot ignore the voices of their citizens. They must now think seriously about the consent of the governed and, mirabile dictu, about getting elected...