The Powerlessness of the Powerful

The strong will survive and the weak will die.

Power was transferred to the people, i.e.

Uganda is a strong proponent of multilateralism.

The Philippines is not a country used to seeing powerful people punished.

Index funds are an example of such powerful investors.

Rather, it would enable the powerful to exploit the weak.

Let us avoid creating a new legal order that protects the strong and condemns the weak.

So will a failed Peace of the Strong be followed by a successful Peace of the Weak ?

Such behavior is unacceptable whether it is carried out by the powerful or the weak.

But, in contemporary Islam, the powerful have always managed to eliminate would be reformers.

There was general understanding that ambiguities could provide a possible basis or excuse for manipulation by the powerful.

So the monetary authorities, they argue, must be in the pockets of powerful bankers.

Hence, the import of Chinese labor into a continent not lacking in able bodied workers.

Its leader, Don Luigi Sturzo, wanted it to appeal to tutti i liberi e forti all free and strong men.

A French historian said, two centuries later, Seldom has so mighty an intellect submitted with such humility to the authority of Jesus Christ.

As a result, Nicaragua s people, not its strongmen, may yet choose the next president.

However, as recent history has shown, toppling strongmen is only the beginning of the democratization process.

When the Soviet Union was still there, the rich and the powerful, they needed the people, because they feared them.

True, in the endgame of the talks, the US caved in to its wealthy and powerful agribusiness lobby.

Some may still call it the rule of law, but it would not be a rule of law that protects the weak against the powerful.

The combination of powerful leaders with authoritarian bent and intellectual idealists often results in bad policies.

As such the honorific title of the States General collectively was Hoogmogende Heren (mightiest, or very mighty, lords).

Although the powerful pretend not to believe it, the poor have the right to development and will continue to fight for it.

We must let our thinking and our actions mature, free of all haste and fear in the face of the claims of the powerful.

CAMBRIDGE The most widely held theory of politics is also the simplest the powerful get what they want.

The United States, too, went though a period of robber baron industrialization in the 1870 s and 1880 s.

One problem with the cultural argument is that it is often used to defend or excuse the behavior of the powerful against the weak.

Further exacerbating the Bank s financial woes, its powerful creditors have opted to pull back its lending in order to protect its resources.

Unfortunately, strong vested interests have spent millions of dollars on spreading misinformation about climate change.

This challenge is not a new one, as powerful World Bank shareholders have been trying to sink the project since its inception in 2002.

Some of the changes proposed in the report would risk creating a far more insecure and unjust system that would be subject to manipulation by the powerful.

It will actually happen by the powerful coming together and making treaty based systems, treaty based agreements, to govern that global space.

Russia s robber baron capitalism lacks the kind of effective regulation that creates trust in market relationships.

This suggests that governing principles and sturdy political institutions, not powerful individuals, have become the bedrock of Mexican governance.

Who, precisely, were these powerful enemies? The intellectuals didn't identify them, but the fascist political party Pamyat (Memory) did not hesitate.

Poland had disappeared as an independent nation, the victim of its powerful neighbors greed Spain was a country that no longer mattered.

But strongmen who rely on the secret police and a controlled media to maintain their rule will be quaking in their shoes.

Politicians saw little need to vote for further reforms, especially those that would upset powerful vested interests.

Set up to protect the weak against the strong, labor unions had become, by the 1970 s, enemies of economic progress, a massive force of social conservatism.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

Of course, one special group today comprises the children of officials, from powerful national party leaders to local satraps who use their family connections to their advantage.

By selecting his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, as his Secretary of State, and reaching across party lines to retain Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, he showed openness to strong subordinates.

For this reason, politicians and powerful businessmen often cajole the press, the credit rating agencies, and even the analysts to portray their actions in a positive light.

They preferred less competition in credit markets not out of concern for the unwitting farmers, but in order to defend powerful lenders profits.