Word: rulers
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...merging the administrations was to prevent abuses created by individuals within each party. "The aim was to have some constitutional institutions in the country so that the PUK and the KDP and together with the other parties could become civil society parties, so that law will be the ruler in this country, so that there will be transparency in the region...
...that was routed by a small Mughal force in 1526) up to the gorgeous Safdarjang's Tomb (built for a Prime Minister who started a civil war during which Delhi was plundered by invaders), and continue along the even-posher Prithviraj Road (named after the city's last Hindu ruler, who lost his kingdom in 1192). Delhi's kings lost their thrones and heads with remarkable regularity, a phenomenon that is still repeated every few years during India's general elections, when modern India's Prime Ministers discover, too late, just how little protection the city's massive battlements truly...
...sisters marry into uppermost Renaissance Italian society. Plain, naive Beatrice gets the ruler of Milan, while precocious (and luscious) Isabella winds up with a lesser man. In this gold brocade world, where every gesture echoes in quadruple?as politics, family, sex and art?only the virtuosos survive, and leading the dance is the greatest virtuoso of them all, Da Vinci...
...also have a different culture, a different way of doing things. The individual is not the building block. It's the family, the extended family, the clan and the state. The five crucial relationships are: you and the prince or the ruler, you and your wife, you and your children, you and your parents, you and your friends. If those relationships are right, everything will work out well in society...
...Narnia. Lewis wrote that it was only when the character Aslan “came bounding in” to “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” that the story and subsequent series began to make sense. The self-sacrificing lion is the ultimate ruler of Narnia who returns to rescue it from the oppression of the White Witch.Aslan is Narnia’s savior. Jacobs appears to attribute a similar, if not quite as extensive, power to Lewis himself. His description of Lewis as larger-than-life, deeply kind and perennially jovial strays eerily...