Word: governments
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According to the Nature article written by Struhl, the occurrence of a similar fragment in vertebrates could play a role in tracing human develompment, materializing general principles may govern both insect and vertebrate development...
From the start, Botha's hosts went to some effort to keep a discreet distance be tween themselves and their guest. "I'm here because I was invited by different governments," Botha declared upon arrival in Lisbon, though most of the govern ments concerned were saying that he had invited himself. When asked about the demonstrations that threatened to interrupt his travels, Botha bristled, "We live in a free world. It is everyone's right to demonstrate, even to make fools of themselves...
...discovery should be no surprise, even to those inured to the pandering platitudes proffered by Hart. Mondale, and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Cuomo's credo is defiantly traditional and defiantly conventional. He states in the regal third-person: "...HE WILL [govern] ON THE BASIS OF TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, WHICH HE HAS CONVERTED INTO SPECIFIC IDEAS THAT ARE TRADITIONAL AND DEMOCRATIC." Cuomo's vision shines brightly because it is so forthright--government can and should help those who can't help themselves--and so innocent, unsullied by the ravages wrought by deficit spending and the gimmicky neo-liberalism developed...
More broadly, the end of the war permanently altered the imperial relations that had governed much of the world for about four centuries. Churchill, who once said he had not become Prime Minister to oversee the liquidation of the British Empire, lived to see it liquidated by others. India, Malaya, Kenya and other imperial outposts demanded and won the right to govern themselves. France's General De Gaulle, who had simply been notified of D-day rather than invited to help lead the attack, imperiously reasserted French claims to rule Lebanon, West Africa and Indochina. The Dutch vainly tried...
...face of reality or public reaction. As Culture Minister Jack Lang privately told a Paris publisher, "We had big ideas in the beginning, dreams from all those years in the opposition, but then we were confronted by realities, and we came to understand how difficult it is to govern...