He remained, though, a power in politics, in the manner of the deposed Kakuei Tanaka, deciding who should rule.
Then the horror sets in when you realize that even as utterly ignorant as you are, you know more and have thought about this issue more deeply than just about anyone in a position of power in politics or business.
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After two years in prison, he returned to politics and was swept to power in a 1998 election.
"Social instability is always a good excuse for the military to re-establish its centrality in politics and power, " said Maung Zarni, a Myanmar academic and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam had been creating "Let's Love" -- the latest in a series of works on gender politics -- when the politics of people power brought her work to a halt as she immersed herself in the demonstrations.
The constitution, scripted during a drawn-out and farcical process overseen by the army, will give its chiefs the power to continue intervening in politics at will, if and when there is a nominally civilian government.
When the Liberals won power in September 1993, he was given the job of finance minister, considered a graveyard in recent Canadian politics.
But in strict military terms, the U.S. is withdrawing while the Taliban think they're winning the war, and the Afghans are reorganizing their politics in expectation of a Taliban greater power.
Kipling came to prominence after the adventurers and privateers who had built the British empire (he himself never heard a shot fired in anger) and before the naked power-politics of the mid-20th century (he hated Nazism).
Mr Cannonier, a relative newcomer to Bermudan politics, was propelled into power in December 2012 when his One Bermuda Alliance ousted the government of Premier Paula Cox and ended 14 years of rule by the Progressive Labour Party (PLP).
In Chicago politics, Aldermen have a lot of power over real estate ventures.
Once seen as pliant and politically influenced, the body gained more power and independence from party politics through a constitutional amendment passed in April 2010.
If this is the situation nationally, it's even worse in local politics, where one family often has a complete monopoly on power - passing posts around their relatives so they effectively rule the whole area.
He also had a deft appreciation of the mischievous power of gesture politics, sending "humanitarian aid" in the form of discounted fuel to one of the most deprived areas of New York's Bronx in 2005, and signing a gas deal with London in 2007 that funded cut-price bus fares for a quarter of a million of the British capital's poorest residents.
Like his San Franciscan counterparts, Hellman was able to parlay his financial power into political influence, making him a major behind-the-scenes player in state politics.
After taking power in 1980, the army moved fairly soon to restart multiparty politics and launch a free-market experiment.
Paramilitary violence continues at a low level in Northern Ireland, but is being gradually displaced by the process of power-sharing politics, drawing in paramilitary figures who support ceasefires.
Accusations fly about special banking deals for supporters of the ruling Democrats - Tarrin is a key party fundraiser - although such charges are routinely hurled at anyone in power, so closely are politics and business entwined in Thailand.
Although the U.S State Department subsequently implemented a special immigrant visa program for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, the creation of this class of refugees is a testament to the power of language politics, and an example of the fallout from American insufficiencies in this area.
And in the daily world of politics, he knew and practiced a second truth: In government, money is power.
Mali got a shoutout or two, but the role of Africa in the world and in great-power politics slipped away in the night.
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Whether Russia's weekend cutoff of gas supplies to Ukraine was politically motivated--as Ukranian leaders charged--or a clarion call for market pricing, the dispute dramatically underlined the role that energy supplies can play in power politics.
They're affiliated with a coalition that's been on the offensive in American national politics for many years when they get to power.
During the past year, Li demonstrated not only an unparalleled power to dominate markets -- and influence politics -- in Hong Kong and abroad, but also a pacesetting ability to capitalize on the global high-technology revolution.
He frames them incisively, ruefully, and nostalgically, as he aims lightheartedly at a darker purpose: connecting love and power, he suggests the virtue of exerting principled authority, whether in business, in politics, or in art and shows the risks that come with the pleasures and responsibilities of doing so.
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