Word: rigidly
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...crisis, the Roman senate possessed an admirable means of securing both continuity and decisive action. The powerful and populous Senate (think the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) would let consuls (think Core Committee) elect a dictator (think successful administrator) with a specific agenda (think Core reform) and a rigid timetable. Paradoxically, in order to preserve the Republic’s freedom, the republican principles of plural collegiality and responsibility needed to be abandoned. By most accounts, the system succeeded in saving the Republic from external invaders and internal rebellions alike. According to legend, Cincinnatus was plowing his field when called...
...political party in India; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi-revered for his advocacy of civil rights-for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...heart attack; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi--revered for his advocacy of civil rights--for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...phrase in Macbeth properly summarizes Latin America’s difficulties with democracy: “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” and clouds leaders’ minds when annoying electoral results or too rigid constitutions come between them and power. And just like Macbeth, Latin America’s patriarchs lose sight of their humanity through equivocating terms and definitions...
...also a preternaturally diligent and committed worker who sticks to a rigid timetable that divides his day into five-minute blocks, according to The Times of London...