One is that they express the frustration of an underclass that feels increasingly marginalised.
Will the town and its tribes such as Gaddafi's own now form an underclass in Libya?
His proposal for an underclass of immigrant workers, who would not participate in Social Security, is disappointingly lacking.
Land of the Dead has parallels with a post-Sept. 11 world, as an underclass rises up against corporate overlords.
But he took to the idea of writing something of value to an underclass doomed to grow up illiterate.
Of those groups, 29 are considered to make up an underclass that is hostile or at best ambivalent towards the regime.
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It seems that sanctioning an underclass of women who live in fear is a small price to pay for approval ratings at home.
Unlike much of the Arab world, where Shia have traditionally constituted an underclass, the community in Pakistan began with a seat at the head table of power.
The Bishop of Chester, the Right Reverend Peter Forster, said that unsatisfactory remuneration could damage social cohesion, arguing that "the greater the inequality, the greater the chance of creating more of an underclass".
Governments thus face a choice between banning the use of test results and destroying the industry, or allowing their use and creating an underclass of people who are either uninsurable or cannot afford to insure themselves.
Though rising immigration has provoked tensions elsewhere in Britain too, that episode demonstrated that the Troubles have left behind in Northern Ireland an inarticulate underclass that all too readily resorts to violence.
He was a highly successful mayor of New York, precisely because he grabbed hold of a monument to liberalism-gone-wild with a bloated bureaucracy, an institutionalised underclass and a soaring crime rate and reformed it by applying solidly conservative principles.
The tentative conclusion is that North Korea has not only managed to cut itself off from the world, but also created an internally isolated underclass, mostly in the east, that is left to fend for itself.
Whether the criminal "underclass" is an identifiable and stable group may be questionable, but BBC analysis of people charged in relation to the disorder in Manchester does suggest a clear correlation with deprivation.
Mr Meles is said to be pondering the idea of promoting private property rights, but the conventional wisdom among his officials is that, if peasants could sell their land, they would do so immediately, drink the proceeds and head for the cities, where they would become an unsightly and potentially disruptive underclass.
Egypt was an autocracy with a tiny elite and a huge underclass.
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This, again, does not apply to everybody, but anyone who goes into an inner city school today is going to find the same underclass culture that conservatives have long worried about when it comes to blacks.
In an extreme version of this, the rich feel that they have become the new, vilified underclass.
Remember that ridiculous New York Times piece we wrote about last month that suggested poverty, illiteracy and racial disparity could be wiped out if only an army of "nurses, mentors, therapists and social workers" could be mobilized to teach underclass mothers how to talk to their children?
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