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The Dalai Lama and his followers are given a respected place but told not to conduct “political activities” on Indian soil.
Ruthless leaders mobilize disoriented followers.
Intellectuals like the late Edward Said gave voice to it, but it has many followers in the United States and Europe.
Trump went much further during his campaign, when he encouraged followers at his mass rallies to attack the press verbally as “scum.”
He now regularly denounces journalists as “enemies of the people,” and tells his followers to stop “fake news” from standing in his – and, by implication, their – way.
Observers interpret al-Khatib's comments as a reference to the passage of vast amounts of luxury goods through Jordan into Iraq, one of the means by which Saddam has been able to reward his followers.
On the opposite side, followers of the Austrian School of economic thought, especially the ideas of Friedrich Hayek, assert that limited government and free enterprise form the only viable path to liberty and prosperity.
Ricardo’s orthodox followers took no notice of it, assuming it to be a rare lapse by the Master.
Let’s be realistic: people like Buffett and Bill Gates have very few followers even among the very rich in the US.
The thirst for detailed knowledge and complex discussion seems to have been almost fully supplanted by a far more powerful thirst for memes, likes, and followers.
According to the followers of Knut Wicksell, the central bank must keep the market rate of interest near the natural rate of interest.
No, said the followers of John Maynard Keynes, it must offset swings in business animal spirits in order to stabilize aggregate demand.
On the contrary, said the followers of Milton Friedman, it must keep the velocity-adjusted rate of growth of the money stock stable.
One thing that unites many of Trump’s followers, as well as right-wing populists in other countries, including Israel, is a shared grievance against Muslims and the liberal urban elites who are often accused of coddling them.
Long before Trump, that party – and its cheerleaders in the right-wing media – had started to demonize its opponents and effectively told its followers that they could never opt for “European-style socialists” and other un-American abominations under any circumstances.
They fear democracy spreading to within the Church, which is composed of believers who are to be followers, not citizens.
The Shia/Sunni schism is so deep that each side condemns followers of the other as apostates, kafir.
The belief that the other’s religion is not Islam, and its followers not Muslim, has underpinned internecine wars in which millions have died – and continue to die.
Fans of firearms refer to it as the big bazooka; followers of Colin Powell advocate deploying overwhelming force; pyrophobes call it a firewall; sailors like to tie themselves to the mast.
Leading international marketplaces are dominated by institutional investors, a growing share of which are passive index followers that lack incentives to invest in governance oversight.
That means one begins to avoid tough subjects, like the repression of Falun Gong and its followers.
His followers are the largely illiterate, poorest, and most violent Shias of the slums of Baghdad and beyond, whose “Mahdi militia” fought American troops in 2004, even while the Americans were protecting Shias from Sunni attackers.
Similarly, he reminds his followers that the El Hakims, who head the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and their “Badr” militia were subsidized exiles in Iran – many fighting for Iran in the long and bitter Iran-Iraq war – until the Americans “brought them back.”
The Sunnis are only likely to win in two provinces, but if Sadr orders his followers in Baghdad’s slums to vote “no” alongside local Sunnis, that would probably flip the capital to the constitution’s opponents, ensuring its defeat.
Three years later, with Emperor Tewodros still refusing to release them, the British dispatched an expeditionary force of 13,000 troops, 26,000 camp followers, and 44 elephants.
His followers have circulated fake polls suggesting that he would win in the first round with 53% – clear evidence that Wade’s clan does not seriously envisage any scenario other than a first-round victory.
A leader with transformational objectives faces better odds, and an inspirational style is more likely to find responsive followers and to make their role more relevant.
Leaders of this type not only adapt their style to the situation and to their followers’ needs; they also create flows of information that “educate their hunches.”
In particular, contextual intelligence requires an understanding of groups’ cultures; the distribution of power resources; followers’ needs and demands; information flows; and timing.
Global income equalization, for example, is not a credible obligation for a national political leader; but such a leader could rally followers by saying that more should be done to reduce poverty and disease worldwide.
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