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The Kuchma regime’s vast wealth, stolen from ordinary Ukrainians, suggested that the reign of thuggery and deceit could go on forever.
Those who disconnect themselves from the fate of others, who act without conscience or a sense of right and wrong, and who spurn ordinary human decency have no place running organizations or sitting on company boards.
The perpetrators of the Madrid and London bombings were prosecuted in ordinary criminal trials.
One plotter in the attack of September 11, 2001, appeared before ordinary courts in Germany.
Indeed, the Chad-Cameroon pipeline – the biggest such project yet realized in sub-Saharan Africa, covering a 1,070-kilometer trajectory from Doba to Cameroon’s Atlantic port of Kribi – was launched amid considerable controversy regarding its benefits for ordinary citizens.
The next day, he said things that completely contradicted what he had just told Obama – stunning the US government and ordinary Japanese alike.
If ordinary people are to observe this historic event, buses will have to transport them.
The real issue is that the US Congress – like many countries’ legislatures – lives by rules that are very different from those imposed on ordinary citizens.
For a government such as that now ruling China, one which does not derive legitimacy from the will of the people, the deeply rooted cultural presumption of ordinary people that the cosmic forces of heaven no longer shine on it, could deal a devastating psychological blow.
Since the Arab Spring began, four long-established regimes have been removed, while others are under increasing pressure, giving ordinary Arabs hope that their demands will no longer be ignored, and that those who govern will be mindful of citizens’ needs.
The Lucifer EffectWhy do good, ordinary people sometimes become perpetrators of evil?
Over the past three decades, my research and that of my colleagues has demonstrated the relative ease with which ordinary people can be led to behave in ways that qualify as evil.
Although much of The Lucifer Effect examines how easy it is for ordinary people to be seduced into engaging in evil deeds, or to be passively indifferent to the suffering of others, the deeper message is a positive one.
After all, most heroes are ordinary people who engage in extra-ordinary moral actions.
Ordinary Armenians were thus deprived of their leaders, and soon after were massacred, with many burned alive.
Ordinary bullets often consist of lead, tank-buster missiles contain uranium, and explosives are organic nitrogen compounds, sometimes containing mercury.
But competition is one principle that ought to command broad political support, because of the benefits that it tends to deliver for ordinary people.
One reason big business was considered a threat at that time was its monopoly power over assets that were crucial to many ordinary Americans.
Unlike a century ago, when access to physical capital was the most obvious way to boost a worker’s productivity and income, ordinary workers’ most important asset nowadays is education.
By accepting this, progressives could forge a consensus with centrists and help to deliver better results for a core constituency: ordinary workers.
Thus, even without explicitly talking about politics, ordinary Algerians are mobilizing in growing numbers against the government.
Even ordinary citizens, despite largely recognizing that the system is dysfunctional, often resist change, for fear of losing whatever they do have.
All were portrayed as representatives of another world, with no relationship to the lives of ordinary British people.
Ordinary Nigerians hold the "Khaki Boys," as army officers are derisively called, responsible for today's wrecked economy and social malaise.
Ordinary Nigerians, brutalized by a dizzying succession of corrupt and inept military juntas, have, like a drowning man, clutched at "democracy" as their lifeline.
And, for nearly a decade, China has been urged to undertake reforms to redress these economic patterns, which have undermined the welfare of ordinary Chinese and strained the global trading system.
Throughout this process, ASEAN’s leaders must bear in mind a crucial lesson of the EU: high-level agreements that lack the consent of ordinary people have limited effectiveness and longevity.
There is a growing danger that the open platform we all cherish will increasingly be colonized by corporate greed, criminal activity, and conflict between states – with ordinary citizens the ultimate victims.
This is a version of the fallacy that taxing companies (“capital”) spares ordinary people (“workers”).
After all, why should ordinary people bear the burden of fat cats who are laughing all the way to the bank?
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