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Then the storm will come, battering ordinary citizens, while today’s leaders remain high and dry, drawing pensions.
So widespread is it in my country that almost every state initiative seems tainted by corruption, with the result that the implementation of some governmental programs is now highly suspect in the minds of many ordinary people.
Rather, it is a sad and troubling reflection of the wealth and power of lobbies relative to ordinary citizens in US politics.
All political parties, including the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), condemned the coup attempt, as did the vast majority of ordinary people, regardless of their political orientation.
It is the history of freedom, encompassing the stories and memories of ordinary people, dissidents, and independent thinkers.
Anyone who disagrees is dismissed as an elitist “Remoaner” showing contempt for ordinary voters.
Unlike most other party leaders, he was good at talking to ordinary people, a skill that helped him win support and then power later, but he also showed no sign of questioning the Marxist-Leninist gobbledygook that he was required to recite at public events.
Thus, continuing pain seems likely for ordinary Japanese, whose thrift and productivity ensured that the country rose like a phoenix from its wartime destruction.
The power of the transatlantic axis that used to run the world is slipping away, and the sense of losing control is being felt by these countries’ political elites and ordinary citizens alike.
This year, however, the British electorate must navigate more than the ordinary amount of election-time dissimulation.
Once the gas is liberated from the frozen water, it can be collected in wells and put into pipelines, just like ordinary natural gas.
How can the government expect to mobilize domestic investment as long as ordinary Russians keep their savings--$50 billion, according to most estimates--at home?
Eurocrats must learn that Euroskepticism is fundamentally healthy, because it invites closer examination of the policy options open to Europe, and thus increases the involvement of ordinary people in the EU’s policymaking process.
For at least a year prior to the August 2009 elections, NATO officials recognized that ordinary Afghans' disgust with their government's massive corruption was among the Taliban's most effective recruitment tools.
The media crackdown has created a culture of fear among journalists, academics, and ordinary citizens, making them reluctant to criticize policies and politicians.
But the relationship between Turkey and the EU should not be limited to accession talks among leaders, diplomats, and bureaucrats; the process should involve ordinary people on both sides of the discussion.
Second, ordinary people are also gaining greater influence.
Today, the international community should look for a World Bank president who is attuned to ordinary people’s growing refusal to tolerate glaring global inequalities, and who understands that development is more than GDP growth.
We live in an era in which globalization expands the market for ultra-talented individuals but competes away the income of ordinary employees.
Researchers from Stanley Milgram to Phillip Zimbardo have shown that atrocities can be committed more easily when ordinary subjects (that is, not sociopaths) become desensitized in various ways.
For example, ordinary citizens could be allowed zero-interest-transactions balances (up to a limit).
Of course, the actual payment will be made in ordinary currency at the contemporaneous exchange rate, based on the consumer price index, between baskets and the currency.
In reality, in far too many countries, ordinary citizens do not benefit from any of this money; in fact, they must bear the brunt of the environmental and social costs imposed by mining and drilling operations.
First, it relied – once again – on trickle-down economics: somehow, throwing enough money at Wall Street would trickle down to Main Street, helping ordinary workers and homeowners.
But turning them over to the government at market value doesn’t improve banks’ balance sheet; to do that requires overpaying for the assets, a transfer of wealth from ordinary taxpayers to the banks..
The country is now riveted on the fate of ordinary citizens like sales assistant Lina Joy and former religious teacher Kamariah Ali, who are trying to change their religious affiliation through the legal system.
At the other end of the spectrum, rape, adultery, early child bearing, and abortion have become ordinary matters.
Such self-reinforcing financial feedback is much more powerful in transmitting global economic contagion than ordinary commercial or trade exposures, as the world learned in 2008-2009.
The “no” vote not only forestalled attempts by President Mwai Kibaki and his inner circle to tighten their grip on power, but it also confirmed to ordinary Kenyans the power of the ballot box.
But ordinary people rejected Kibaki’s power play, reclaiming their nation’s path through the ballot box – an idea that is still almost unheard of in the Kenyan context.
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