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This stance characterizes populist governments, often sustained mainly by gas and oil, that practice autocratic democracy, ignoring any formal constitutional division of powers and running roughshod over independent institutions and the press.

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We know from our formal model that the brain structure at the receiving end of the Critic's commentary is the Actor.

Humanitarian organizations mostly focused on the formal settlement in rural areas, and there was nothing in place for us.

Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language.

Or listening to the same MP3 as 3,000 other people and dancing silently in a park, or bursting into song in a grocery store as part of a spontaneous musical, or diving into the ocean in Coney Island wearing formal attire.

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