Nor has the old regime disappeared. Yushchenko has gained a majority in Parliament because many adherents of the old regime switched their allegiance out of convenience.

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After this, Uusimaa became the Province of Uusimaa Nyland of the old lääni system.

The alternative model to British constitutionalism was ancien régime France.

So one of the books recently read by some of the incoming members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the country s top decision making body, may come as a surprise Alexis de Tocqueville s The Old Regime and the Revolution.

The ancien regime s supporters call it a populist revolution.

Indeed, the political turmoil caused by the crisis has broken the back of the old two party system.

True revolutions occur only when the old repressive system is thoroughly dismantled and purged.

But it is only now, after the war, that successor justice is being aimed at refining and consolidating the message of delegitimation and regime change.

Under the old regime, boys and girls could not even sit together once they turned seven years of age.

This may be why Alexis de Tocqueville s The Old Regime and the Revolution is widely read today in Beijing.

In Tocqueville s imagination, at least, the old order s subjects had been eager to protect their particular liberties and jealous of their spheres of independence.

Finally, the Obama administration should bear in mind that in some countries, the old order will be replaced quickly.

Famously in France s Ancien Régime, the judges collectively acted as a close knit, self contained social class.

The New Right, typified by the Bush Cheney administration, is really old corporatism in a new guise.

General tax deductions are now paid out directly to the dependent partner instead of as under the old system to the breadwinner.

The old Cold War world order was based on the nuclear arms race between the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.

The idea of reforming or adapting the old system without decisive change must be rejected before the process begins.

France in the ancien régime repeatedly imposed semi default on its creditors by reducing interest rates and extending maturities.

Surprisingly, Kan, who entered politics to dismantle the old system, now has switched to the mandarins side.

BERLIN When the democratic revolt in Tunisia successfully ousted the old regime, the world reacted with amazement.

The panic about bread that swept France in 1789, and the inability of the government to guarantee supplies, destroyed the ancien regime.

He has waived America s long standing demand that Iran stop uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations, and he has sworn off any idea of regime change.

Europe s old political order was based on competition, mistrust, power rivalries, and, ultimately, war among sovereign states.

Now in the old consumer system, our reputation didn't matter so much, because our credit history was far more important that any kind of peer to peer review.

As in Iran in 1979, demonstrators united in opposition to the old regime have wildly differing goals.

However as of 2012 hundreds of TV stations have begun to air due to the collapse of censorship from the old regime and the initiation of free media .

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The happy transitions across much of Central Europe following the end of the Cold War were made easier by the fact that the old communist order more or less died on its feet and surrendered power peacefully.

But the principle of the inviolability of the persons of diplomatic agents and the premises of diplomatic missions is one of the very foundations of this long established regime, to the evolution of which the traditions of Islam made a substantial contribution.

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Only a few years ago, a young journalist, Georgi Gongadze, seeking to inform the public about our old regime s corruption, was brutalized and beheaded by that regime s thugs.

Democratic elections brought out new and savvier politicians, often from among those who were part of the old regime.

The old order, which Nasser al Din Shah Qajar had struggled for so long to sustain, finally died, to be replaced by new institutions, new forms of expression, and a new social and political order.

It may be preferable for the United Nations to focus on the creation of a new, credible and effective electoral management body, rather than try to build capacity of the old regime election commission.

Worse still, it seems that only the same system in which siloviki (secret policemen) are in charge appears capable of holding together such a ramshackle economic empire.

And that's what it was in the early days.

We want to hold on to our ancient way of life.

The old Lideta Airport in the western Old Airport district is used mostly by small craft and military planes and helicopters.

This could be addressed promptly while eliminating inefficiencies and re orienting institutions that were co opted by the old system to serve the few rather than the many would increase potential output significantly.

Its problems should not be seen as a test of family capitalism, but rather of the dangers that come from the temptation to break out of the old order.