Word: governability
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...Gasperi's coalition needs better than 50% of the vote to win enough parliamentary seats to govern Italy effectively. The betting is that he will narrowly make...
...Right has not completely forgotten traditions, but it distrusts the people. Neither Right nor Left can govern. When they try to do it together, they only succeed in neutralizing each other...
...speeches offer a classic contrast between politics and statesmanship. The very qualities that made them historically significant severly limited their vote-getting appeal. Stevenson did not talk down to the voters. If anything, he was too humble. The voters, unprepared to govern themselves, wanted a strong figure to whom they might entrust their futures in an hour of national crisis. His speeches showed him to be shy, modest, sensitive. His only charisma was that of the mind...
those who are cold and are not clothed." "This," said Eisenhower, "is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Five Precepts. As a contrast to Russian conduct, Eisenhower restated "a few clear precepts" which govern U.S. foreign policy : "First: No people on earth can be held - as a people - to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice...
...imperial bureaucrat. Ever since the 16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...