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They must perform household chores and are subject to beating if they do not carry out orders issued by male family members.
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.
Kissinger’s hope is that these countries and rising powers like India and presumably Brazil (he leaves Latin America out of his account of world orders) will be able to forge agreement on a set of rules that all will regard as legitimate, thereby maintaining a stable global balance of power.
But collapsing orders are both a cause and an effect of their traditional and potential guardians’ increasing reluctance.
As orders crumble and become harder to maintain or manage, traditional and potential leaders increasingly consider the challenge too great, or they rely heavily on quick fixes and stop-gap measures, further fueling unpredictability and instability.
European military effectiveness is also curbed by different procurement policies, as those countries that produce military hardware prefer to keep orders at home.
Thus, humans (or mammals) have significantly smaller (ten or more orders of magnitude) populations than bacteria.
So the city’s government blunders away, stirring up trouble, clearly on the orders of the government in Beijing.
It was a crime, she said, without trace (no written orders; no official directive, ever, anywhere); without graves (her father, brother, and mother became smoke and ash, with no marker but her own memory and, later, her autobiography); without ruins (Auschwitz, when she returns to it years later, is becalmed, neutralized, cleansed); without exit (Sarajevans, Rwandans, and Cambodians could, at least in theory, flee, whereas the hallmark of the Holocaust is that the world itself was a trap); and, finally, without reason (given the choice of expediting a troop train headed for the front or a train carrying Jews to the ovens, the Nazis always chose the latter).
On the demand side, the ongoing economic slowdown in China is starting to affect companies’ orders and revenues, adding to the challenges stemming from the persistently sluggish US economy.
She was assuredly not for turning, but she also was not for taking orders or settling for the restricted life that her society seemed to hold in store for her.
This statement itself was unlawful because, according to Russia's constitution, dismissals of duly elected officials should occur only by virtue of court orders.
For example, cronies are entitled to buy assets from state companies at discretionary prices and fill government procurement orders with no competition.
In other words, Putin expects members of his team to be loyal, follow orders like soldiers, and efficiently relay the will of the sovereign down the chain of command.
What he does need are his slightly younger “liaison officers,” who will carry out his orders without asking questions.
Although the Internet appears to be renewing Islamic pluralism, today’s online fatwas are non-negotiable orders, not a call for fresh creativity.
We are seeing the emergence of regional orders – or, most pronounced in the Middle East, disorders – each with its own characteristics.
Fortunately, the political backlash against the quarantine orders quickly prompted some state governors to ease them.
This limitation on external influence may be healthy: the legitimacy of the political and social orders that emerge from the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere will largely depend on their being perceived as the outcome of authentic domestic processes.
Two air-force pilots diverted to Malta, followed by a navy warship – all in defiance of Qaddafi’s orders to bomb the eastern city of Benghazi.
This should lead to better trade agreements, which presuppose the eventual development of orders of magnitude more social insurance to protect people within a country during the transition to a more just global economy.
But efforts to support the world’s poorest must not be put on hold while the international community awaits new marching orders.
We believe in a religion that orders us to kill the converts.
Nothing personal, he told them, he was under orders.
The word had come down: a lie under orders is not a lie, it is just following orders.
Likewise, his recent executive orders will minimize the financial costs of US businesses’ carbon footprint, by changing how the “social cost of carbon” is calculated.
Countries circulating these orders include Azerbaijan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
For example, court orders against employers who had dismissed workers for engaging in union activities were not enforced.
Whereas the main distinction in Nineteen Eighty-Four is between rulers and ruled, in Brave New World, people are divided into different social orders defined by disparate tastes and lifestyles.
Chinese airlines have delayed orders to purchase European aircraft.
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