The same way they can pull us away from the general interest and the common good, like today.

However, there is no ultimate guarantee against the abuse of power, especially if that power is democratically gained.

In the West Bank the organs of jurisdiction operate in a completely different way.

Democracy, mutual respect and the fair distribution of power all need time.

The defeated candidate gave up power and made way for Ghana to move into a new democratic cycle.

President Abbas assured us that the Palestinian Authority would cooperate fully in preparations for the withdrawal.

In other words, a state monopoly that has the use of violence well under control.

In recent weeks and months, the Palestinian Authority continued to take specific steps towards reforming the structure of the security services.

The research by the FSP should also go toward understand men's mentality and use of power as a weapon to suppress women.

As leading Russian military expert Alexander Golts argues, the problem in Russia is not a lack of central power, but of power exercised incompetently and without individual initiative.

This refers to two different types of power, which are possession of power and exercising power.

It voted the grand coalition out of office with a bang, consigning the Social Democrats to the political abyss. Only ruins remain of the once proud Gerhard Schröder s SPD.

It is crucial that corruption and abuse of power be addressed in a manner that affirms the commitment of the system to fairness and the rule of law.

Presentations and discussion under this thematic area highlighted that trends towards democratization, decentralization and devolution were continuing.

In fact, during the short time that we have been in power, we have made progress towards nearly every Goal.

The peace agreements envisage a new concept of national defence and public security which represents significant progress towards establishing the supremacy of civilian authority.

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So, while US states compete with the center for power, in Europe they increasingly compete with each other.

Likewise, Abulhassan Banisadr, the Islamic Republic s first president, fell out with Khomeini over the division of authority.

Power and decision making society should grow towards the equal representation of men and women in influential positions.

The buildings were thus passed unexpectedly to the Palestinian Authority, which was not in a position to protect them.

3. Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to accelerate the release of all Palestinians arbitrarily detained or imprisoned

The separation of the judiciary from the executive branch is under way.

We can jabber, if it has no effect, it's allowed.

Moreover, there have, unfortunately, not been any significant moves by the Palestinian Authority to freeze terrorist organizations' assets, prosecute their members or police them in any way.

Democracy, even in its initial and most incomplete forms, is organized in such a way that individuals may take part, directly or indirectly, in the exercise of power.

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Likewise, the Egyptian army s hold on power, beginning in the 1950 s, resulted in a decades long military dictatorship.

As a result, government expenditures and household incomes are up substantially since Saddam Hussein s last years in power.

Challenges to established political authority have been chilled, fairly effectively, by means of state sponsored patriotism.

China s leaders approach power in a very different way than do political leaders in, say, the United States.

The judiciary is independent of the legislative and the executive.

Hollywood gathers around power tables, and the Valley gathers around power tables.

If the next president comes to power by means of a free and fair election, Russia will have a real chance at a decent future.

The point of openness is to make those in power behave better and to make us trust them more.

In France, it is considered to be the watershed moment when a conservative moral ideal (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) shifted towards a more liberal moral ideal (secularism, individualism, sexual revolution).

In the development of Imperial rule from Principate to Dominate, the role of the Senate was increasingly marginalised and military loyalty became the key to Imperial authority.

The Government is moving on the devolution of authority to the local level to realign centralized structures of the past with European standards of local self government.

And it was a world of, as I say, not local power, but now central power.