In the Arab world it is customary for poets to praise those in power.

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Mr Bomann-Larsen was fulsome in his praise of the prime minister last year and predicted that he could remain in power for decades.

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The article also goes on to note the power of hacker culture in creating wikis, providing a great deal of praise for the collaborative ethos that has created Wikipedia.

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You co-own it with your customers who wield enormous power in how they talk about you, rate you, rail against you, or praise you to their friends.

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Liberals praise diversity but generally urge courts to permissively construe the Constitution in order to validate federal power to impose continental uniformities.

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