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In the US, Congress and the executive branch are locked in a stalemate.
Indeed, Hong Kong enjoys many freedoms that the rest of China lacks, including a judiciary system that is guided by British common law and independent from the executive branch.
Partisan polarization in Congress has also undermined the executive branch, unduly blocking government appointments – including routine and essentially uncontroversial ones – and placing unwarranted obstacles in the way of implementing even the most sensible and seemingly bipartisan legislative proposals.
When a colonel recently asked NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel-Jalil why he has not moved to merge the militias into a national army, Abdel-Jalil replied, “I head the legislative branch.
The judicial system has seen root and branch change.
Today, factories have to be closed down all over, because usually there are too many in the same branch, and specialization is too limited.
And yet the number of bank branch jobs actually increased over time as costs fell.
What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.
Consider the al-Nusra Front, a former branch of al-Qaeda and one of the most powerful jihadist groups in Syria.
The contempt conviction in May left the legislature and the government’s executive branch with very little room for maneuver.
The PYD is the Syrian branch of the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been waging a guerrilla-style war against Turkey’s government since 1984.
Then the Federal Service Bureau, formerly the KGB, celebrated the anniversary of the founding of its foreign service branch - ie, the spies - a reverie attended by a certain former employee named Putin.
Back then, the illusion of costless progress prevented the root and branch reform Colombia so desperately needed.
He and his supporters also have taken aim at the fundamental institutions upon which American democracy is based, including the courts, the legislative branch, the independent media, and more.
But can they manage an executive branch employing millions?
Barack Obama has experience living overseas and working as a community organizer in Chicago, but not in the executive branch.
Arafat never grew beyond the man who appeared at the United Nations decades ago with both an olive branch and a gun.
According to a 2017 survey by the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po, 64% of French adults believe their local mayor is working harder than the executive branch to solve everyday problems.
And there have been conspicuous cases of industrial espionage that allegedly involve Chinese companies (or perhaps some branch of the Chinese government) stealing trade secrets from firms with operations in the US.
The judicial branch, however, has resisted Trump’s bullying.
These arrangements apply both to parliament and the executive branch.
In the executive branch, the council of ministers is balanced among Christians and Muslims in order to encourage, indeed force, cooperation and to avoid the risk of domination the fear of oppression by one group.
And major institutions such as New York University and the University of Nottingham are creating branch campuses in the Middle East and Asia.
Like the newly independent US, the EU today lacks an empowered and effective executive branch capable of confronting the current economic crisis.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s understandable desire to discipline the spendthrifts entails sawing away at the last remaining branch on which Germany’s bankers and taxpayers are perched.
Some state institutions dislike the idea of delivering more powers to the executive branch; magistrates, for example, fear a loss of judges’ extensive and unchecked powers.
Government privatized some 1,100 branch institutes, making their finances somebody else's problem.
BRUSSELS – With the final allocation of portfolios within its executive branch, the European Commission, the European Union has completed its change of guard.
Most experienced veterans of the executive branch weren’t drawn to work for Trump, and he and his circle of advisers blackballed anyone who had opposed him during the 2016 election.
America’s allies, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, were interested in replacing Assad’s Alawite regime in Syria with a Sunni-led regime (Alawites are a branch of Shia Islam).
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