Word: praetorianism
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...blantantly rigged election, the reformers prepared to take a more active part in the efforts to topple him. By this time they had won the support of some of his closest security forces. Says one reformist: "I don't think the President thought that so many of his praetorian guards would turn against him. He thought money could buy loyalty. He underestimated the basic decency of Filipinos...
...protect the president and visiting dignitaries - such as Secretary Rice herself - and to guard the crossings into the Palestinian territory of Gaza at Rafah and Karni. But some Western envoys fear that strengthening Abbas' forces could help unravel the unity government. International observers and Palestinians claim that Abbas' Praetorian guard was hardly neutral during the recent civil conflict that wracked the Palestinian territories as gunmen from Fatah and Hamas traded fire for days on end: The president's forces laid siege to the Islamic University in Gaza, which has many Hamas sympathizers among its students, destroying classrooms, libraries...
...Kohl, Bitburg; and for American vets, perhaps a sonorous speech. The picture now contains all the right elements. But the elements do not sit well on the canvas. They mock one another. What can it mean to honor the murdered if one also honors the murderers and their Praetorian Guard? This is photo opportunity morality, and so transparent that it will convince no one, offend everyone...
...high school-level exams at nine. Two years later, she won a scholarship at St. Hugh's College, scoring first in a field of 530 candidates on the university's entrance examination. Harry moved her into an off-campus rented flat, which he shares as academic coach and Praetorian Guard...
Indeed, the populus have the legal forms to bring down their masters, even their renowned leader, Narcissus. He himself, unlike our own dear Imperator, is compelled to debate and argue his rights and responsibilities with the masses, who hold his future in their hands. Narcissus has no Praetorian Guard to protect him, merely a collection of sophists who toil day and night to coin the arguments, often specious, for him to make before the city’s courts...