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We may admire leaders who make efforts to increase their followers’ sense of moral duties beyond borders; but it does little good to hold leaders to an impossible standard that would undercut their capacity to remain leaders.
But even when making these graduated choices, a leader also owes his followers a duty of prudence – of remembering the Hippocratic oath to first of all, do no harm.
Party leaders select family members and other loyal followers as candidates for elections, with absolutely no consideration of their abilities to fulfill ministerial responsibilities, resulting in cabinets that are simply not capable of managing the problems confronting the country’s national and state governments.
Common Sense’s followers often refer to Antonio Gramsci’s theory of “cultural war” – according to which values are inherently in conflict and must be fought over – overlooking the irony of invoking an Italian Marxist to defend Catholicism.
Is there any sense in trying to turn the human mind to the heavens when such a turn would only aggravate the conflicts on earth among the followers of our various deities?
Supported by local police and 10,000 followers, the rebellion ended only after a government crackdown.
Germany had its turn at the head when hard money was the issue of the day; today it is trailing because the restructuring mode does not accord well with its traditions of pay without work and disciplined followers without courageous leadership.
The time horizons of development policy are out of line with the time horizons of counter-terrorism, but terrorist groups are often led by well-off deviants who (like Osama bin Laden) recruit followers by pointing out the world's injustices.
He and his followers knew that as long as they remained in Mecca, they would be despised by non-Muslims; their very lives were in danger.
Will the party, chastened by its electoral defeat, recognize that its responsibility is to the American people, and not only to its members and followers?
A Canadian psychology professor, Jordan Peterson, has attracted countless young male followers by telling them to stand up straight, fight the liberal softies, reassert their male authority, and restore the old social hierarchies that he believes are forces of nature.
Inside the Placebo EffectBOSTON – For many medical researchers and followers of science, few things are more unsettling than the placebo effect.
The low point came last May, when Trump warned his followers that, “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country.
The Islamic world, which stretches over 15,000 kilometers, dozens of countries, and more than 1 billion followers of the faith, is similarly subject to widespread cultural variation.
Orban used this strong position to alter the constitution, appoint loyal followers to democratic institutions that otherwise would have checked his power, and manipulate election laws to cement his rule.
For the key audience for this meeting of Muslim king and Roman Catholic Pontiff was not their followers, but another conservative leader, President George W. Bush.
But Trump has one of his own: for all but his most devoted followers, he finally went too far.
In fact, the policy of separating families was threatening to drive a wedge between Trump and even his evangelical followers.
By contrast, every regime that has rejected capitalism in the name of Marxism has failed – and not by coincidence or as a result of some unfortunate doctrinal misunderstanding on the part of Marx’s followers.
Instead, he will try to regain his power, both in Venezuela and the region, and most likely by upping the ante – that is, hardening his rhetoric and policies so that his followers’ unity is not splintered by his defeat.
His followers, unsurprisingly, cling to his parting promise to return to Liberia.
Though the Tea Party’s followers – a group that one early opinion poll identified as 89% white and just 1% black – claim to oppose government spending above all else, they accept government help for themselves.
A day later, the government found a face-saving formula to send the preacher-politician – and, more important, his followers – home, promising that the Election Commission will be given the time to determine candidates’ eligibility under the relevant constitutional provisions.
It claims that followers of Fethullah Gulen – the influential US-based spiritual leader – have effectively wrested control of the national police and large parts of the judiciary.
More than a hundred followers of Ayad Allawi, Al Sadr, and others have joined their ranks.
Adam Smith and his followers decisively won the intellectual battle between these two models of capitalism.
Oratory and inspirational rhetoric, however, are not the only forms of communication with which leaders frame issues and create meaning for their followers.
Organizational skills – the ability to attract and inspire an effective inner circle of followers – can compensate for rhetorical deficiencies, just as effective public rhetoric can partly compensate for low organizational skills.
The need for a political steering wheel in the hands of elected politicians was highlighted in 1993, when two major political figures bolted from the LDP with their followers.
As for those bracelets, well…But does any of this matter to Santorum’s followers?
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