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The irony, of course, is that a government, elected in large measure because of its promised fidelity to democratic principles, demonstrates even less restraint in the use of ordinances than its undemocratic predecessor.

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Licinia fully understands now why her predecessor was buried alive.

Here's the Architecture Machine Group, the predecessor of the Media Lab, in 1981.

And when I first came across it in the early '90s, I thought my predecessor, Malcolm Dyson and Bob Wright, had really taken leave of their senses, and I’ll explain to you why this was the case.

He did not, happily, follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, and tell us to just go shopping.

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