The authors' argument, first laid out in the Atlantic a year ago, is that America's big banks act as an oligarchy, a group that has gained political power because of its economic power and then uses that political power for its own benefit.
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Many Egyptian politicians and analysts, accustomed to attributing moves by the SCAF to efforts to extend its own political power or block Islamists, struggled to divine a clear political motive for the disqualifications.
The Marcos clan is rebuilding its political and business power base too.
As the use of social media accelerates, it's incumbent upon everyone involved in the political process to make sure its power is used to harness everything good about the American political system, rather than to hasten political trends that are hurting our republic.
The defeat shows the degree to which the LDP is losing its power as a political force.
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This is also reflected in its federal political system, whereby power is shared between the central government and 28 states.
However the distancing of the institution from political power has its uses, since politics is divisive and coalitions are inherently unstable.
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Hence, any attempt to restructure the NNPC will affect the country to its core, impacting entrenched political power bases as well as average Nigerians who are growing ever more dependent on gasoline and electricity for living a modern life.
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But it is not particularly true of his big opponents -- including the left-wing Democratic Party, which has its own scandals, its own selfish interests and, during the election campaign, its own evidence of the abuse of political power in the case of Italy's third-largest (and oldest) bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, whose business was allegedly run and distorted in the interests of local Democratic Party politicians in that area.
On Monday, Stremor Corp launched Unpartial.com, a political website to demonstrate the power of its Language Heuristics Engine.
"I want to see legislators make correct appraisals, not emotional responses, " said Richard Feldman, who was regional political director for the NRA during its rise to power in the 1980s and is president of a gun rights group called the Independent Firearm Owners Association.
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In recent decades the country has seen a relentless growth in the numbers, power and political self-confidence of its ultra-Orthodox citizens.
If the African-American community also sees the power of the ballot to overcome other historical obstacles such as entrenched poverty, widening wealth, education gaps and safer streets where it's not as easy for a criminal to get a gun as it is to buy a cigarette, then this expansion of its voting power will be a more permanent fixture on the political scene.
America has a choice either to be increasingly rendered a mere bystander, letting political correctness usurp progress or to emerge from the shadows of its super-power status and take a firm stand in the international energy arena.
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Malawi guarantees gender equality in its constitution, but disparities remain in almost all aspects including education, employment and political power, according to human rights groups.
Russia would also wield more political power over those countries than it would the major advanced economies and its big emerging market partners in the south.
Its premises are that markets and shareholder capitalism do not disperse economic power, and that political bodies do not concentrate economic power.
While bashing Wall Street is easy, popular, and profitable, the Academy appears uninterested in using the power of film to pursue social justices that might offend the political sensibilities of its members.
In Ireland's political system, with its perpetual coalitions, that could mean that Sinn Fein holds the balance of power.
Once liberated from its associations with certain fundamentally political commitments, however, religion, unlike those other grounds, will probably greatly increase its appeal and power.
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Remember one thing - regardless of the political changes in the county council elections - local government still faces a 30% cut in its spending power.
Since the military handed power to a parliamentary government last year, Myanmar has released hundreds of political prisoners, legalized its main opposition party and loosened restrictions on the media.
As I have written before, the political and economic reality is East Asia is that China has become the dominant local power, and its relative dominance grows by the year.
But, for another other camp, involving Europe's left (and more or less the entire French political class), the point of Europe is to keep globalisation at bay, or at least curb its power.
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