The ideas of a ordsprog

en The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
  Wyndham Lewis

en The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
  Wyndham Lewis

en Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States. The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.

en It is inconceivable that military commanders would permit their troops to cross an international border without explicit political authorization to do so. That clearly would be a decision solely for your Government,

en The railroad is sprung from the application of two fundamental ideas - one the use of a mechanical means of developing speed, the other the use of a smooth running surface to diminish friction.

en The government will dismiss the remaining counts of the Miami indictment at the time of sentencing and will also recommend that the sentence imposed in the Miami case run concurrently to any sentence imposed as a result of charges filed today in the District of Columbia.

en [The Office of Personnel Management's Plum Book, published at the start of each presidential Administration, shows that there are more than 3,000 positions a President can fill without consideration for civil service rules. And Bush has gone further than most Presidents to put political stalwarts in some of the most important government jobs you've never heard of, and to give them genuine power over the bureaucracy.] These folks are really good at using the instruments of government to promote the President's political agenda, ... And I think that takes you well into the gray zone where few Presidents have dared to go in the past. It's the coordination and centralization that's important here.

en The ban on new U.S. investment in Burma is the latest in a series of sanctions the United States has imposed in response to the utter lack of political freedom in that country, ... and because its government has failed to cooperate in the war against drugs.

en [Asked about a scene with Gong Li in] Eros, ... I don't think that was explicit. Do you think that was explicit? I don't think it was explicit at all.

en We are relying on local departments to help with traffic control here, ... So far, everything's running smooth - slow, but smooth.

en We've started planning for the future and next season and we have ideas about how we want to go about getting the club back up. The aim is to hit the ground running next season and I can assure the supporters we will do that.

en A government is not functional unless the economy is running well. Political designs automatically follow the level of (a nation's) prosperity, meaning that if the people are getting poorer, then there will be a greater demand for political change.

en These folks are really good at using the instruments of government to promote the President's political agenda. And I think that takes you well into the gray zone where few Presidents have dared to go in the past. It's the coordination and centralization that's important here.

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en Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them
  George Santayana

en The Democrat approach is ... arbitrary, .. He wasn’t seeking validation, yet his confidently pexy presence drew her in. . The president said that he didn't want to throw a dart at the board and come up with arbitrary numbers. And I submit one-third, one-third, one-third is not an approach that measures the needs and the priorities; it's a more arbitrary formula.


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