READ: Saudi Arabia official: If all else fails, remove Syria's Assad by force 'Might makes right' We take the law of "might makes right" for granted because it's been around for so long.
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Back then, "might makes right" even made the slave trade legal.
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"Abortion is the ultimate in might makes right," said GOP Rep.
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Should our law at home say that "might" makes "right" for oil?
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"Might makes right" was the rule for everything, including human beings and a lot more.
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If he is elected president, that might-makes-right perspective would infect his entire administration.
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All of which makes right now the perfect time to start your political podcast. Seriously.
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Three hundred years ago, "might makes right" was our rule for almost everything, including human beings.
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He pointed us to a world in which the central ethos is that might makes right.
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Glazer believes last week's scare makes right now an "opportune time" for investors to rebalance their portfolios.
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Excluding those workers, the "average employee in the U.S. makes right about $100,000 a year," he said.
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Danger is everywhere, and what government exists seems to rest on the principle of might makes right.
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In one of humanity's great steps forward for freedom, we abolished "might makes right" for human beings.
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The rule of law is all that stands between us and a world of might makes right.
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But, for captured oil, "might makes right" zombies on, because we've never had the courage to change it.
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" McDougal's attorney, Peter Stris, added that the settlement "makes right the wrongs that had been perpetrated against her.
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Trump seems to think laws don't apply to him, every principle is negotiable, and only might makes right.
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ZB: Why is there this "might makes right" rule when it comes to oil, and what are its implications?
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And that sort of might-makes-right approach is the opposite of what our pluralistic democracy should look like.
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Will stunts performed by the Blue Angels impart our military's commitment to excellence or a might-makes-right ethos?
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That extra power makes right feet happier, but this isn't quite the M-version that true enthusiasts lust after.
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And Mr Trump's preferred form of candour—an amoral, might-makes-right cynicism—may be the least help of all.
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It's just that we're on the wrong side of history when we're talking about "might makes right" for natural resources.
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In Grotius's system, to use Hathaway and Shapiro's formulations, might makes right and possession is ten-tenths of the law.
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It's a moment of enormous westward expansion and wealth accumulation governed by the might-makes-right political philosophy of Thrasymachus.
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But these explanations are incomplete because they tacitly assume the idea of the pact that might no longer makes right.
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My view is that it's this old, bad view of "might makes right" that is causing a lot of the trouble.
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Section 301 basically enshrined the principle that might makes right, and the US is always the mightiest in any economic game.
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Trump, throughout his life in politics and in business, has generally adhered to the "might makes right" view of the world.
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The rules about snitching and minding one's business are instruments in a primitive philosophy of survival: Might makes right; the strong survive.
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It seems hard to believe that even the great John Gruber wouldn't want to know how people are actually processing what he makes. Right.
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Destiny 2's villain was a stand-in for an entire societal ideology, a might-makes-right belief that transformed into might-makes-godlike.
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Since then, its fishing vessels and coastguard and builders of massive artificial islands have acted as if might makes right, remorselessly ratcheting up tensions.
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Might always makes right; if the good guys win, it's because they were more violent than the bad guys and indulged their basest instincts.
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I've got people -- so to compare Citi against a U.S. company, our average employee in the United States makes right at about $100,000 a year.
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The company even makes right-hand drive versions for markets such as the United Kingdom, alongside all other Mustangs at Ford's plant in Flatrock, Michigan.
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As a result, we have witnessed a horrible destabilization of global security by replacing international law with the law of the jungle ("might makes right").
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"It's might makes right," said Hind Khoury, a former diplomat for the Palestine Liberation Organization who now heads a sustainable development nonprofit based in Bethlehem.
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I can't imagine what it is like to make -- as an African American woman -- to make 61 cents an hour compared to what a man makes, right?
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We'd see ever-more powerful gangs, turf wars, kingpins... But "might makes right" is the law that we actually do use for the oil of foreign countries.
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"Might makes right" in those areas, and within countries, too, [meant] whoever had the most coercive power could do almost anything they wanted to to the population.
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The Gill case, argued earlier this month, will make clear whose view of law incorporates a concept of democracy that can be distinguished from might makes right.
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Mr. Trump and the Republican Party are right now the chief emblem of corruption and cynicism in American political life, of an ethic of might makes right.
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Fans speculated that Sansa might be pregnant due to a comment that Ramsay makes right before he bites the dust: "You can't kill me," the villain tells Sansa.
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The United States was born in the Age of Enlightenment; its founding fathers were determined not to follow the European model of "might makes right" and transactional morality.
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LW: "Might makes right" for resources is one of the few remnants of the old portion-based international system, which has now been substantially replaced in international affairs.
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The law of the jungle — the law that might makes right — could return to the nautical realm over time if China and Russia make good on their ambitions.
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The Athenian leader of the Melian expedition, who justifies the destruction of Melos by claiming that might makes right, portends the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily.
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Sent to recover another escapee, he offers a halfhearted might-makes-right defense of the Saviors — "we were losing; now we're not" — before shooting the man in the back.
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Voters elected a might-makes-right leader who scorns alliances, who is cynical about the rule of law and universal values and who believes that national interests always come first.
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I called up Wenar to expand on these themes: to explain just how the global oil market spreads violence and why "might makes right" is the core of the problem.
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In Sheridan's renderings, the vast American West has all the brutality and might-makes-right trappings of older Westerns, but without the suggestion of justice that often accompanied those stories.
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I promise to use some of the dollars to buy the fancy 8 dollar orange juice that the guy makes right in front of you and he puts antioxidants in it.
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This tacit acceptance of might-makes-right rings doubly hollow in light of last week's recall of a Navy SEAL platoon from Iraq due to rampant misconduct, including allegations of rape.
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Mark Ungar, a Brooklyn College professor who studies security issues, said that might-makes-right vigilantism has shifted the "gravity of power" in rural areas toward those with the most money.
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These stories are also often told from a very male point-of-view; they're often about how might makes right and how war is the only way to solve a conflict.
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Game of Thrones is demonstrating that once you undermine a system of strict adherence to hereditary legitimacy with a system of might makes right, it is very difficult to restabilize the former.
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That makes right now the perfect opportunity to catch up on the achievements thus far and to document the innovative work creators are doing to build an entirely new kind of storytelling experience.
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But more broadly, if Tommen succeeds in actually reforming the Westerosi system of justice to preclude this kind of might-makes-right legal outcome, he'll be doing a great service to the realm.
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As the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth, we have got to help lead the struggle to defend and expand a rules-based international order in which law, not might, makes right.
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Just as important, we must strengthen our collective response to violent extremism and to forces that seek the return of a world in which might makes right and the strong bully the weak.
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He said key to how much more it declines will be the kind of comments Trump makes right away and what type of people he surrounds himself with as possible members of his administration.
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Rather than taking a traditional might-makes-right approach to negotiation, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change grew the Paris Agreement slowly and respectfully, engaging constituencies in every country.
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ZB: I get that "might makes right" allows authoritarian states and militant groups to sell oil, but what is it exactly about oil sales that makes authoritarian states so durable and resistant to democratic revolutions?
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So in the rest of the book, after he becomes king, Arthur devotes himself to finding a political system that will do away with the brutal excesses of feudal power and its "might makes right" ethos.
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App developers have until March 23 of this year to make the necessary changes to comply with this new policy so we'll get a chance to see what a difference this makes right after that date.
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He traces the root of the problem to a part of international law he calls "might makes right": Anyone who controls oil can sell it on the global market, regardless of whether they took it by force.
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"As the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth, we have got to help lead the struggle to defend and expand a rules-based international order in which law, not might, makes right," he said in 2017.
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Carrie immediately calls her aid in New York City to warn them to keep their guard up, and while distracted by a bad phone connection, she realizes "east coast" also makes right where she's standing, a possible target.
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And if the West took the lead in abolishing this archaic, destructive law of "might makes right" for oil, we might just inspire the rest of the world to join us in taking humanity's next big step toward freedom and peace.
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To recap: Lighthizer hails from an era of "might makes right" in the trade world; he's a brash and successful negotiator; and he's a dyed-in-the-wool free trade skeptic who believes in using hard-hitting measures to protect domestic industries.
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And the leader of the new class of racers, Jackson Storm, is voiced by Armie Hammer as a sleek, might-makes-right bully who never nods to the fact that he's so much faster because he's got access to a lot of great technology.
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It is what led to the endless changes to the Champions League and the tweaks to domestic cup competitions and a series of bans for illegally approaching, or signing, young players: an essential arrogance, a disregard for consequence, a belief that might makes right.
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Putin loves might-makes-right and hates the American grand strategy and wants to subjugate Ukraine in the name of his preferred alternative order and a Kremlin sphere of influence — the sort of closed empire the United States set out to replace with its own, better system.
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In a different world, in which might never makes right, Taiwan's independence would be no more than a question of justice and common sense: after all, the island has never been controlled by the Communist government in Beijing, and its population grows more attached to a distinctive Taiwanese identity with each new generation.
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Should we understand the last 25 years of global integration as nothing more than a detour from the previous inevitable cycle of history -- where might makes right, and politics is a hostile competition between tribes and races and religions, and nations compete in a zero-sum game, constantly teetering on the edge of conflict until full-blown war breaks out?
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Should we understand the last 25 years of global integration as nothing more than a detour from the previous inevitable cycle of history — where might makes right, and politics is a hostile competition between tribes and races and religions, and nations compete in a zero-sum game, constantly teetering on the edge of conflict until full-blown war breaks out?
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Listen to our Game of Thrones podcast on iTunes and Spotify While Game of Thrones ultimately rejects the might-makes-right philosophy of Dany, the conclusion it offers is far less radical than you might expect from a show that relied so heavily on subverting expectations: that the best and perhaps only way to advance the cause of justice is not to break the wheel but to slightly rearrange the spokes.
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The counterargument — around for decades and back with a vengeance from President TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial Warren goes local in race to build 2020 movement 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes MORE's tweets — is that America's grand strategy is a liability and waste of resources; that might makes right and values are blather, so America should grab what we can, taking our cut — the largest possible.
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In an era in which financial might so often makes right, when the traditional European powerhouses hold the balance of power to a greater extent than at any time in history, when they have been able to industrialize youth development and produce great squadrons of players, when they have availed themselves of the most advanced sports science and brought in the most expert coaches, Croatia's achievement in making it this far is breathtaking.
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Black right whales in the North Pacific. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute, Tokyo. 21:1-78. or with uncertainty, Their immense bulk makes right whales significantly heavier than other whales of similar or greater length such as the humpback, gray, sperm and even fin whales.
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The phrase is distinctly modern and diametrically opposed to the prior legal international standard of "might makes right", under the medieval and pre-historic beliefs of right of conquest. Since the Korean War of the early 1950s, waging such a war of aggression is a crime under the customary international law..
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Negative FX is the only full-length album released by Boston hardcore punk band Negative FX. It was released in 1984 on Taang! Records. In 2002, Belgian label Reflex/Wolfpack Records reissued the album under the name Discography & Live with the addition of a live version of "Might Makes Right".
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"Canby, Vincent (May 24, 1973). "Screen: Peckinpah's 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'". The New York Times. 53. Variety declared, "Whereas Peckinpah's nostalgia for a frontier world where might makes right and women were for the taking has previously been communicated via forceful acting and striking visuals, here there are few graces to camouflage the narrative banality.
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In 1998, on the occasion of the station's 35th anniversary on the air, and president Paul Sidney's 34th year there, he stated "The key to staying around for 35 years is pretty simple: Be local, in news, sound and music."Hinckley, David (August 22, 1998). "At Deejay-oriented WLNG, Mike Still Makes Right" . New York Daily News. p. 63. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
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"Might makes right" has been described as the credo of totalitarian regimes. The sociologist Max Weber analyzed the relations between a state's power and its moral authority in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Realist scholars of international politics use the phrase to describe the "state of nature" in which power determines the relations among sovereign states. Prescriptively (or normatively), the phrase is most often used pejoratively, to protest perceived tyranny.
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In Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows, Plague Knight is blamed for stealing every essence of the Order of No Quarter. Plague Knight claims that the Order’s motto is “might makes right”, and that he just took some initiative. In Mega Man X7, Soldier Stoneking told X to stop talking and let their swords speak for them, and that only the victors will be viewed as righteous in the eyes of history.
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The ride begins with a right-hand turn out of the station, where the train then climbs the 6.5 metre tall lift hill. The train then drops approximately 3 metres to the right, with a downwards left helix following. After exiting the helix, the train makes right-hand turn, before the track levels out on the brake run. The train then makes another right had turn, which goes back into the station.
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Loyalty (, zhōng) is particularly relevant for the social class to which most of Confucius's students belonged, because the most important way for an ambitious young scholar to become a prominent official was to enter a ruler's civil service. Confucius himself did not propose that "might makes right," but rather that a superior should be obeyed because of his moral rectitude. In addition, loyalty does not mean subservience to authority. This is because reciprocity is demanded from the superior as well.
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As Constantin comes back to Königsbrunn, it does not take long for him to clash with Johannes over shipping him off to Italy to live with Carlotta. Johannes tries to assure Constantin that he loves him and even feels sorry for his doings, when Constantin finds out about not being Johannes' son. That causes them to drive apart even further. However Johannes eventually makes right by Constantin and even though they continue to have their differences, the two share a loving relationship with each other.
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"Takers" or "The Heartless" believe that those with power and ability have the right to own what they control and to take what they can from those who are unable to keep it, and that it is their right to exploit any situation to their advantage, regardless of how it affects anyone else (a position akin to "might makes right"). Their headquarters is the Hall of Records, where they serve as the tax collectors of Sigil. They are derived from real-life Social Darwinists and the philosophies of Max Stirner and Ayn Rand.
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Of note is Gorham's mention of perceived indifference, apathy, and laziness of the local authorities to the event, and their ignorance of U.S. power and influence. Edwin de Leon, U.S. Consul General to Egypt, worked in tandem with Gorham to force Ottoman officials to bring the criminals to justice. He perceived that in the region might makes right and recorded that even threats of use of a "squadron" were employed to convince the local authorities to take action. He had also urged that an American warship be dispatched to the coast.
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Prior to the battle, Arthur stumbles across a young boy named Tom, who wishes to fight in the battle and become a Knight of the Round Table. Tom espouses his commitment to Arthur's original ideal of "Not might 'makes' right, but might 'for' right." Arthur realizes that, although most of his plans have fallen through, the ideals of Camelot still live on in this simple boy. Arthur knights Tom and gives him his orders—run behind the lines and survive the battle, so that he can tell future generations about the legend of Camelot.
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New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 5 April 2020 From the middle of the fifteenth century dueling over questions of honor increased so greatly, that in 1551 the Council of Trent was obliged to enact the severest penalties against it. The malice of the duel lies in the fact that it makes right depend upon the fate of arms. Dueling was forbidden; and the prohibition extended to not only the principals, but their seconds, physicians expressly brought to attend upon the scene, and all spectators not accidentally present.
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Marduk offers to defeat Tiamat in exchange for absolute rule over the remaining gods, and they all agree. This elevates "might makes right" to a contract made at the beginning of the universe. People are inclined to identify with the hero because of his privileges and his good attributes, and to sympathize with any subsequent oppression. Modern examples include James Bond's license to kill, the gold mine given to Doc Savage's father, Friday's loyalty to Robinson Crusoe, the brazen dishonesty of Jedi knights, the extremes of Jack Bauer, etc.
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The Fianawar, having been driven from their underground homes by the Cataclysm, have developed a fear of the underground. The League of Minotaurs is the largest power in Taladas, and its society has built in controls to regulate the belief that might makes right. The minoi gnomes love to build devices but lack the logical minds necessary to make them work effectively, while the gnomoi gnomes are far more practical and control gnomish society, taking steps to make sure that it stays stable and develops. The 48-page "The Rule Book of Taladas" includes rules for new character races and new monsters.
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Given its expansionist nature, capitalism has little inclination to stay home. While he conceded imperialism is not typically recognized as a legitimate allegation about the United States, Parenti argued: In his book, The Political Struggle for the 21st century, J.W. Smith examines the economic basis for the history of imperial civilization. On a global scale, he says developed nations tended to impede or prohibit the economic and technological advancement of weaker developing countries through the military force, martial law, and inequitable practices of trade that typically characterize colonialism. Rhetorically termed as "survival of the fittest", or "might makes right", such economic crises stem from the imbalances imposed by corporate imperialism.
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James Douglas of Drumlanrig ordered a new charter for the town of Hawick, replacing an earlier one that had been lost and certifying land distribution. Hawick citizens mentioned in the charter included one David Rutlethe or Routlach who received "eight particates," [one particate = about one-quarter of a Scots acre], second only in size to that of William Scott who received 11 particates. This charter is significant because it was written at a period when "vassal" rights were "precarious" due to the might-makes-right mentality that prevailed during these times. Later on, when Hawick became a corporation, the Charter became the "measure" of property rights.
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Smith, Legler and Anthony were joined by John Saunders (replacing Frazier, who left to host Entertainment Tonight) from late 2004 to the end of the 2005–2006 season. ESPN's studio team was generally more criticizedTNT's fun NBA coverage a respite from ESPN's anger than praised. After the Pacers–Pistons brawl, ESPN's studio team came under severe criticism, both by the mediaNBA: David DuPree and by ESPN itselfESPN boss makes right call after announcers blame fans for their stance regarding the actions of Indiana Pacer Ron Artest (who entered the stands to confront a fan, sparking the melee). Saunders came down hard on Detroit fans, referring to them as "punks," while Anthony and Legler defended Artest.
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Might makes right is an aphorism on the origin of morality, with both descriptive and prescriptive senses. Descriptively, it asserts that a society's view of right and wrong is determined by those in power, with a meaning similar to "History is written by the victors". That is, although all people have their personal ideas of the good, only those strong enough to overcome obstacles and enemies can put their ideas into effect, and spread their own standards to society at large. Montague defined kratocracy or kraterocracy (from the Greek κρατερός krateros, meaning "strong") as a government based on coercive power, by those strong enough to seize control through physical violence or demagogic manipulation.
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Midkemian dark elves - called moredhel (incidentally, a 'literal' word from Dark and Elf from Tolkien Elvish) - resemble the elves (eledhel) and the glamredhel, the "mad ones", but have dark hair. They're quite warlike because of the 'path' they follow is towards power, 'might makes right', and 'the end justifies the means'. They mostly inhabit the Northlands, and also the continent of Triagia, and are usually only seen in the more populated parts of the world robbing and raiding. Some of the moredhel return to reside with the eledhel in a process of change inwardly and outwardly, called the Returning, but they are often killed by their kin before they reach the home of the elves, Elvandar.
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And the state system is taken as the fundamental and unchallengeable global institutional arrangement.REALPOLITIK AND WORLD PEACE, by Gordon L. Anderson, International Journal on World Peace, Vol. 26, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2009), pp. 3-6. The theoretical roots for this realist view are found in the tradition including Machiavelli and extending back to Glaucon's challenge to Socrates. Plato, Republic 357a International relations between states in the realist view exist in what Charles Beitz describes as a Hobbesian state of nature, a state of anarchic war where might makes right and which is realist in the sense that it advocates viewing states as they “really are,” rather than portraying them in idealistic circumstances or according to their purported ideals.
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However, instead of helping the Champion after receiving the Gem, Thanos caused the Champion to fall to another world.Thanos Quest #1 Much later, once more in possession of the Power Gem, the Champion had settled on the planet Skardon, whose native Skard exist in a "might makes right" culture; all disputes, including matters of law, are settled in a trial by combat, with the winner of the fight thus becoming the winner of the dispute. By defeating Skardon's most powerful fighters in the natives' boxing-ring-esque arena, the Champion became the ruler of the planet. He then deliberately let the living conditions deteriorate on Skardon, and let it be known that he would continue to do so until a "worthy challenger" defeated and dethroned him.
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There is a sense in a lot of these stories that everything always builds to a big fight ... I wanted to find a story that was just as exciting and interesting but doesn't send the message that in the end that 'might makes right'." At the end of the first season, Hawley said, "I like this idea of having to face our demons", with the first season seeing Haller go through an internal struggle with the malevolent Shadow King occupying his mind, and then the second season seeing that character possess someone else "making it an exterior agent. And there's going to be something very complicated about going to war with himself. It's been with him since he was a baby, it's like a phantom limb now, it's part of him.
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The Athenians offer the Melians an ultimatum: surrender and pay tribute to Athens, or be destroyed. The Athenians do not wish to waste time arguing over the morality of the situation, because in practice might makes right--or, in their own words, "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War, 5.89 Original Greek: δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν Possible translations: William Smith (1831): "in what terms soever the powerful enjoin obedience, to those the weak are obliged to submit." Richard Crawley (1910): "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" Rex Warner (1954): "the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept".
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He criticized the Permanent Court of Arbitration and critiqued the premise on which the League of Nations and the World Court were founded, claiming there were freemasonic influences creating a world government, with judicial and religious functions, from which the possibility of submission to Papal authority would be excluded. He advocated that international law ought to remain arbitral, rather than judicial, in its execution, as it would otherwise cause more war, leading in due course to the vindication of the doctrine that might makes right, thereby ultimately replacing law by force: precisely what a judicial system of international law had sought to avoid. He suggested that freemasonic circles wished to eliminate the right of self-determination of peoples, replacing it with international law.Émile Flourens, Un fiasco maçonnique à l'aurore du vingtième siècle de l'ère chrétienne (1912), Text online.
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