At worst, they do far more harm to the ordinary people of a country than to its leader.
This natural wealth could bring many benefits to the ordinary people of the Congo, but instead it is funding armed conflict and horrific abuses.
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Thus, apart from the direct ethics of suffering, justice and equality, there is another reason to support all reasonable means of poverty reduction: this is the only way to secure the ability of ordinary people to participate in debates about culture within their own communities.
He has called for the Roman Catholic Church to be closer to ordinary people, especially the poor and disadvantaged.
The new pontiff, the first from Latin America, has called for the Roman Catholic Church to be closer to ordinary people, especially the poor and disadvantaged.
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Some 85% of the annual budget is spent on work of this nature, making a practical difference to the lives of ordinary people in troubled areas hardly the work of a mere talking shop.
Union leaders deny any intention of bringing it or the country to its knees, but many see Wednesday's stoppage as the first step in a campaign to draw attention to the problems of ordinary people.
"The American people overwhelmingly voted last year for a change in our national priorities to put the interests of ordinary people ahead of the greed of Wall Street and the wealthy few, " Sanders said then, explaining his action.
For several hours that day and on the day of the elections, we talked to ordinary people in the streets.
Yet Mr Moynihan never forgot about the Democratic Party's mission to improve the lot of ordinary people.
He has been a brilliant, coaxing, insatiably curious listener to the tales of ordinary people.
"I want to make the genomics revolution meaningful to ordinary people, " Venter says.
He said he had carried out the attack because the government was deaf to the concerns of ordinary people.
But for any conservative party to find itself in the position of having to insist it is the party of ordinary people, not just the rich, is pretty poor.
Seaside historian Kathryn Ferry said the Illuminations' success needed to be understood by looking at the time in which they were created, when ordinary working people headed to the seaside in their thousands.
The debacle of Iraq and now the failure to do more to secure an immediate end to the attacks on civilians in the Middle East not only increases the risk to ordinary people in that region, it is also ammunition to extremists who threaten us all.
The government of President Asif Ali Zardari, the main opposition party led by Nawaz Sharif and the armed forces have all done little to educate ordinary people about the Pakistani Taliban.
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As MPs continued committee stage scrutiny on 4 May 2011 of the Finance Bill, which enacts measures in March's Budget, she said the coalition failed to understand the lives of ordinary British people.
Many of these rules were developed based on the incredible abuses committed by the mortgage and securities industries, and others are based on laws intended to protect the privacy of ordinary people.
It's the story of firefighters and police officers who rushed to those burning towers, and ordinary people who rushed to the aid of a flooded American city.
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The militants are striking hard in their attempts to demoralise ordinary people and the security agencies.
The White House historically extends invitations to ordinary people to join the first lady in the public gallery of the House chamber during the speech, believing they can help put a human face on an issue or proposal the president will discuss during his annual address.
But there is widespread expectation that Francis will soon name a new master of liturgical ceremonies more in line with his priorities of bringing the church and its message of love and service to ordinary people without the "high church" trappings of his predecessor.
So, the museum set out to look at ordinary people complicit in the killing and persecution of millions of Jews through greed, peer pressure, a desire for career advancement or other factors beyond hatred or anti-Semitism.
They were employed by Mass-Observation, a social research organization founded in 1937 to study the everyday lives of ordinary people, who were also invited to participate in surveys and keep diaries.
But sources say that a part of his speech to top government officials a section not reported by the state media demanded radical measures to improve the living standards of ordinary people.
And we're not suddenly saying that the way to do this is to eliminate programs that help ordinary people and give more tax cuts to the wealthy.
But now he needs to do something else: deliver the fruits of independence to ordinary people.
His successor should not be a visionary: he ought rather to be able to run a complex bureaucracy and take up the challenge of reconnecting the European project to ordinary people.
This progress has been achieved by using Venezuela's vast oil revenues to transform the lives of ordinary people.
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