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A powerful and wealthy feudal elite that has maintained power for two centuries through a mix of authoritarianism and religious sentiment now feels embattled following its loss of power in Abuja and, with it, the means to dispense patronage to formerly obsequious followers.

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He maintained a calm insouciance.

It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained.

And to understand why, we must look at how, through the ages, military technologies have maintained or destroyed world peace.

However, there is a close, permanently maintained bond between the body regulating parts of my brain and my own body.

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