But even among the countries that uniformly support equality, men remain the ruling class.
An interesting little insight into how the ruling class works over here inside the European Union.
He accuses the ruling class of purposely spending the US into insolvency.
He could not wait to see if he would succeed Buffett in order to become a member of the ruling class in America.
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Independence came, or was won as in Algeria, and the ruling class in the Muslim world made a bid to establish political order and engage with tasks that Smith described.
The ruling class in Angola is another promising market.
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Nearly three years of a government of national unity has blunted the opposition's edge - the MDC has seamlessly become part of the ruling class, in their official vehicles and trappings of power.
Codevilla predicts that a clash between the ruling class and the ruled in the US is just a matter of time, although he makes scant predictions or recommendations for how that clash will play itself out.
His replacement of the traditional ruling class with a foreign aristocracy also caused much resentment among the English nobility.
Given that most Americans support a strong Israel and view Israel as a vital US ally in the Middle East, they would be hard-pressed to maintain their failed and unpopular policies if they weren't amply assisted by their counterparts in the Israeli ruling class.
From this vantage point, Codevilla was able to get a close look not only at the international relations elite, but at the entire American ruling class, from which the former are overwhelmingly drawn.
Ned Kelly, a Robin-Hood-like folk hero, represented the struggle between poor rural Irish Australians and the repressive British ruling class during and after transportation.
Though the latter were never entirely comfortable with the emerging Democratic ruling class, their big business constituency pressed them to be their advocate to it.
In its 20-page appeals petition, the big investor group argues that Judge Pauley made a mistake in ruling that the Class Action Fairness Act gives his federal court jurisdiction over the settlement proceeding.
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Ever since the Mexican revolution of 1910, the attitude of the country's ruling class towards Indians has been contradictory.
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His prime example of a ruling class Republican is the first president George Bush.
An initial version of the law presented to the parliament, known as the General National Congress, would have been an entire ruling class from politics, even figures who had minor posts or left the government decades before the uprising against Gadhafi began in early 2011.
In the late Heian era (893-1185), when the book is set, the ruling Fujiwara clan of upper-class commoners (to which Murasaki belonged) would send their daughters to court at Kyoto, hoping that one would give birth to a crown prince and ensure their control of the imperial power.
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Evans's restorations, while intended to preserve the Minoans' unique architecture, also reflected his imaginative theories about the luxurious lifestyle of Crete's prehistoric ruling class.
In that suit, the Kings County Superior Court judge denied the request for class-action status, ruling that Microsoft had taken sufficient care to ensure its product worked as advertised, and threw the suit out of court, Murray said.
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The best the retailer can hope for is another appealable ruling from the trial court, perhaps on whether former employees can join the class.
In June, I wrote that the ruling had led to the dismissal of 75 pending class action cases.
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Mr Guriev suggests that the reason Russia has failed to modernise is that its ruling class can pocket rents from things as they are.
When Britain, the colonial power, left Nigeria, it handed authority not to traditional rulers, who were viewed as having some legitimacy, but to doctors, lawyers and the horde of literate hustlers who did well in the British bureaucracy and the British army and now make up Nigeria's ruling class.
Two years after the bill was signed into law, lawyers and judicial experts are taking stock of the legislation, particularly as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in on the Wal-Mart sex discrimination class-action case, ruling that several current and former employees can represent all women taking action against the company.
They asked whether an arbitrator could be impartial when his fee would be greatly magnified by ruling in favor of a lengthy class action, instead of merely deciding the individual case in front of him.
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The likes of Baker, Scowcroft, Brzezinski and Hamilton and their students comprise a permanent Middle East policy ruling class that endures regardless of who is in power and what their actual views about Middle Eastern realities happen to be.
Similarly, the Arab Spring seems to have been triggered by another series of radical changes in society, from technology and iPhones to food shortages to the beginnings of the rise of a middle class in these societies, that have coalesced into widespread revolt and dissatisfaction with ruling governments.
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Just last week we read at the Point of Law blog and elsewhere about a Third Circuit ruling which rejected an absurd cy presdistribution in an antitrust class action settlement.
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Putin has now lost the support of much of the urban middle class and young people -- a group that always polled highly for Putin -- and his ruling party's brand is in shambles.
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