Japan has long been the paragon of rich country agricultural protectionism. Its electoral system heavily favors rural voters.

So Correa s record is not exactly a paragon of support for the collaborative, critical, and open journalism promoted by WikiLeaks.

The performance was cancelled, and their first concert was held in Thailand instead, at the Royal Paragon Hall on April 14, 2008.

The truth is that many European and G 20 countries have lived far beyond their means including Germany, despite its reputation as a paragon of fiscal rectitude.

So I went about my business Paragon Space Development Corporation, a little firm I started with people while I was in the Biosphere, because I had nothing else to do.

Far from appearing a paragon of political solidarity, however, the German government s support for Greece was marked by reluctance and reprimands, which quickly sparked fears of a member state exiting the eurozone.

At a time when there is so much preaching about democratic principles, it is truly regrettable that an Organization that should be a world paragon of democratic practice should be setting such a sorry and sad example of complete refutation of democratic procedure.

While the United States claimed to be a paragon of the rule of law and had declared war on terrorism, it nevertheless sheltered known terrorists, such as Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, financing scandalous Presidential pardons for such terrorists and preventing them from being brought to justice.