It is also typical of a kind of monarchical tradition.
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But unlike the more monarchical owners, coaches are within our grasp.
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The monarchical conceit wears thin—but the wider observations are acute.
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The presidency is a hybrid position, having both democratic and monarchical features.
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He is entrenching, through long-lasting legal changes, a deep monarchical state.
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It's a monarchical order, not a democratic system where issues can be raised.
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He briefly advocated a return to monarchical rule and heads the Constitutional Monarchy Movement.
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Under the current monarchical hierarchy, the top Knights are required to have noble lineage.
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Persian Gulf organized into a nation-state ruled by a family in a monarchical
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In this sense the American Constitution actually pushed back against Europe's anti-monarchical movement.
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He challenged the kingdom's monarchical tradition, introduced an insurgency and questioned the Wakandan religion.
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Macron, often criticized for a monarchical manner, is to launch a national debate on Jan.
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Republican domestic politics might be a bit more lively than what happens in monarchical systems.
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Mr. Macron, as soon as he was elected, reverted to a quasi-monarchical presidential role.
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From there, it is but a short step to making that monarchical sobriquet perfectly fitting.
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It is simply an unfounded assertion that the president has what amount to monarchical powers.
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Given the history of British monarchical marriages, that Prince Harry is marrying Markle is quite remarkable.
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Our Constitution does not grant monarchical legislative prerogative, cloaked as executive orders, in the executive branch.
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But the shy Thomas Jefferson decided to end the tradition, which he felt was too monarchical.
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From the beginning of his term in 2017, President Trump has asserted broad, even monarchical, powers.
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If Congress will not fulfil its duty to check monarchical ambitions, America can expect more errant presidents.
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The haughty Mr. Mitterrand, like his predecessors, sought to preserve the monarchical style of the French presidency.
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The death of Mr. Chávez was followed by the anointment (in a monarchical style) of his successor.
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The increasingly monarchical trappings of the presidency are some distance from the founders' ideal of republican simplicity.
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The edits are peppered with royal terms such as "sovereign" and "reign," nodding toward a monarchical perspective.
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That's not a problem within the monarchical Vatican City, where the authorities are arms of the Catholic Church.
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Donald Trump's hostility toward congressional oversight is leading some of his critics to describe him in monarchical terms.
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Bran's fall opened the show, and his rise ended it: one was physical, the other almost spiritual, monarchical.
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This effectively meant Iran had transitioned from a pro-Western puppet monarchical state to an anti-Western theocracy.
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President Donald Trump revels in pomp, protocol and monarchical chats with fellow leaders, which should play into China's hands.
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America did not go through a revolution to recreate in the new world the monarchical diktat of the old.
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In the 19th century, the United States appointed itself the guardian of the New World against the monarchical Old.
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They saw it as an element of aristocratic and monarchical rule, which confused public functions (officeholders) with private personages (nobility).
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It would be the easiest way to end the cycle of monarchical violence that has torn Westeros apart for decades.
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"In Lebanon, things happen though elections, not pledges of allegiances," he said, in a jab at Saudi Arabia's monarchical system.
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One Revolution-era document they highlight lays out what it meant to be part of this new, post-monarchical France.
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The sense of entitlement, and indeed nepotism, is an inheritance of the country's monarchical culture, political experts and historians say.
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But it is almost as if the author could see into the future and recognize the family's special monarchical fitness.
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Ibrahim Sharif, a prominent Bahraini opposition figure, was sentenced to a year in prison for insulting the Gulf state's monarchical system.
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"There's a [neopatrimonial] dimension to the current president, a kind of monarchical instinct," Van de Walle tells me in an interview.
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Other Gulf leaders arriving for the regional summit got a monarchical welcome, as, recently, did the leaders of Egypt and Turkey.
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But Thomas Jefferson, clearly wary of the similarities to a monarchical allocution from the throne, simply put the address in writing.
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It doesn't require them to have a casual familiarity with centuries of fake monarchical successions or jump through multiple tangled timelines.
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Dershowitz took the question and ran with it, outlining a view of executive power that hovers somewhere between authoritarian and monarchical.
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This air of monarchical impunity has colored many of Mr. Trump's actions as president, but especially in the last several days.
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A New York Times correspondent who visited in 2012 found that Swazis accepted the monarchical tradition but desired more political openness.
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An alternative to monarchical rule was domination by the military; generals derived their authority from their uniforms as well as their guns.
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Presidents who bypass constitutional governance act more like kings with monarchical legislative prerogative rather than presidents limited and constrained by the Constitution.
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This explains why, over the past few months, Trump and his lawyers offered views of executive power that veer toward the monarchical.
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Weaving accounts by ordinary colonists into the sweep of events, Taylor undercuts the narrative of noble patriots standing up to monarchical tyranny.
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Riyadh didn't like the vote's outcome, mostly because it believes the Muslim Brotherhood proved an existential threat to Riyadh's monarchical, authoritarian rule.
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Not a single crowned head attended the ceremony, a collective snubbing that underscored the dynasty's lowly reputation among its would-be monarchical allies.
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The presidency is a quasi-monarchical institution, and so citizens are taught to respect the commander in chief, no matter what the party.
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With places to go and people to see, there's protocol galore — and who better to impart centuries of monarchical wisdom than Her Majesty?
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While this sounds a tad monarchical, many Democratic lawmakers, including Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, overwhelmingly supported Obama in defying Congress.
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In England, the broad diffusion of printing presses and mirrors led to the bloody and ultimately failed anti-monarchical revolution led by Oliver Cromwell.
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China abolished monarchical rule in 1912 when the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, Pu Yi, was overthrown to establish the Republic of China.
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The Trump executive order should be seen more as a mission statement, and less as a monarchical edict that can instantly change the law.
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He may have been sitting beneath crystal chandeliers, but the ornate desk and monarchical manner had gone, and his seat was a modern white chair.
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While some elements of this international intrigue remain in "A Nation Under Our Feet," Coates legitimizes at least some of the voices decrying monarchical rule.
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Th country's first post-monarchical constitution calls for "proportional inclusion" of women in all government departments and also equal property rights to be given to daughters.
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With no monarchical crown to adorn his head, wearing a top hat in the ceremonial procession used to be conventional for the about-to-be-president.
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The distribution of largesse to coincide with changes in the succession is common in monarchical systems to cement loyalty to the ruler and the chosen heir.
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Nadler said in his interview Wednesday that Trump's efforts to block his party's investigations demonstrate the President's "absolutely lawless attitude" and said the actions were monarchical.
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Foy plays the queen's calculations between how much of a person she can be, and how much of a monarchical symbol, almost entirely in her eyes.
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However, when you talk about monarchical power, or corporate power, or patriarchal power, or homophobic power, then that's power from above being imposed on those below.
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Democrats were equally eager to blast his claims of the authority to pardon himself, comparing his Twitter pronouncements to the monarchical origins of the American Revolution.
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He was eating ice cream while wearing very un-monarchical jeans and a crop top, his bare midriff displaying what seemed to be elaborate temporary tattoos.
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He has clearly taken charge, doing so in a way that implicitly affirms both obedience to authority and a kind of above-the-law monarchical privilege.
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Well, that's a way of neutering Congress, of making sure that Congress can't do its job, of turning the country into a dictatorship of a monarchical president.
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The British comedy troupe's feature length string of somewhat connected sketches does snipe at thousands of years of monarchical rule and religion ingrained in their country's culture.
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But popular perceptions of an arrogant president whose monarchical style leaves him detached from the daily realities of most French people triggered street unrest in late 2018.
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At an earlier time, such monarchical behavior from a president would have been met with bipartisan insistence on accountability to Congress and thus to the American people.
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The growing tensions between Turkey and Saudi Arabia after the murder of the Saudi journalist in Istanbul remind us of an older conflict between monarchical and republican Islam.
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"There is a monarchical culture in France," Mr. Plenel, who was once editor in chief of Le Monde, said in an interview on Tuesday, explaining his strategy Sunday.
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David has invented a wholly new iconography for a modern ruler, bereft of the old monarchical symbols, in which authority derives not from divine right but from valor.
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Sharing oil wealth in exchange for popular submission to absolute monarchical rule has always been central to the social contract between the ruling Al Saud and the kingdom's population.
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The most benign account, from Mr Trump's defenders, is that he takes a monarchical view of geopolitics, seeking respectful relations with leaders who impress him, even as underlings scrap.
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Disgusted Anguillans voted 1,813 to 5 against the proposed federation, although their formal declaration of independence bore little resemblance to the anti-monarchical one adopted in Philadelphia in 1776.
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By choosing a British luxury car, the royal couple symbolically aligned itself with Monaco's monarchical cousin, rather than with neighboring France or Italy, both in possession of healthy auto industries.
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But such a radical makeover of France's monarchical presidential residence did not go down well and under a later leader, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, all but the dining room was destroyed.
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His country received a $10 billion investment in 2015 as well as its first monarchical visit from the kingdom, when King Salman, Prince Mohammed's father, went to Moscow this month.
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The third president, Thomas Jefferson, rejected that custom as too monarchical, and for the next 112 years presidents followed his example of sending to the legislature a written annual message.
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When he brought the Senate and Parliament together at the Versailles palace and spoke to them about his ambitions for the presidency, many in France bristled at the monarchical overtones.
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At one point Macron, who has been criticized by opposition politicians for having a vertical, monarchical way of governing, was asked whether he didn't have a "puerile sense of omnipotence".
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Creed, a fragrance house that serves the royal family, shares a similar monarchical tradition with its most famous customers: The house has been transferred from father to son for seven generations.
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These rich-but-not-imminently-monarchical royals tend to provide a more unfiltered look at their lifestyle (okay, fine, maybe with a hint of "Valencia") and it's so addicting to watch.
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"In a confederacy founded on republican principles, and composed of republican members, the superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or [monarchical] innovations," he wrote.
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Around 1744, a tribal chieftain, Muhammad ibn Saud, formed an alliance with an ultraconservative preacher named Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and created the first monarchical state on the Arabian Peninsula.
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The battle between monarchical and republican Islam goes back to the Cold War, when Arab monarchies backed by Western powers saw secular and sometimes socialist Muslim states as their main rivals.
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Chandra left the village to fight with the anti-monarchical Maoist rebels in the civil war that lasted from 1996 to 2006 and ended with the authoritarian king removed from power.
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The Thai military government has always used a mandatory reverence for the monarchy as a tool of political control, and has carefully cultivated a very monarchical image for the new king.
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" It also criticized the president for refusing "to release any administration documents or allow any administration officials to testify" and "asserting a form of monarchical immunity that Congress cannot let stand.
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Impeachment traces its origins to monarchical England, but the framers of the Constitution confined its use on presidents to rare occasions, when their actions corrupted the public interest for personal ones.
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She transformed a childish fascination with traditional Westerosi monarchical society — as well as the immense trauma it inflicted upon her —into political leadership that may, however, call her moral standing into question.
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Macron's in contrast came after less than two years in power and sought to begin healing relations with a public angry at the 41-year-old's liberal economic reforms and monarchical manner.
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His eye on the April referendum to establish a monarchical presidential system, Mr. Erdogan made an unmistakable choice to blow up, rebrand and capitalize on the collective anxiety instead of soothing it.
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Thomas Jefferson insinuated that the first and second presidents harboured monarchical ambitions and then, when he held the office himself, concluded a deal doubling the territory of the republic without first asking Congress.
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When arguing over "how democratic" the parties' nominating processes are, and should be, it is always instructive to remember that the Framers feared direct democracy every bit as much as they did monarchical tyranny.
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Two centuries on, President Emmanuel Macron, often criticized for a monarchical manner, is also calling a national debate to mollify "yellow vest" protesters whose nine week uprising has set Paris ablaze and shaken his administration.
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Anne's father, King James II, was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, but the film is concerned less with the grand cycle of monarchical succession than with who gets to rub the monarch's limbs.
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This cruel model gives nearly monarchical privileges to just 1% of the population, a group of millionaires and billionaires (11 of whom are on Forbes' 2019 Billionaires List), who own nearly 30% of our riches.
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This D.C. press' longing for Trump to uphold the dignity of the office reflects poorly on the practice of journalism, but makes some sense given the nature of the presidency itself: It's a monarchical position, essentially.
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The nation's founders, chary of British central monarchical power, made no mention in the Constitution of allowing the executive or Congress to declare states of emergency, even in the trying times of war, insurrection or disaster.
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While the Founding Fathers were wary of an executive assuming monarchical powers, they saw a pardon power as an important check on the justice system and a channel to extend clemency to those deserving of mercy.
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In addition to Xbox One, the title is also set for release on PS4 and the PC. Supernatural powers and monarchical kingdoms abound, making this pretty standard fare from the A Song of Ice and Fire writer.
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British diplomats have known from their monarchical history since the Magna Carta proclamation 800 years ago what a mess can be made of government when you put an unelected chief executive on top of an elected assembly.
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That 1789 document, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, laid out a radically new way of understanding what it meant to be French — or, at least, French in a newly democratic, post-monarchical society.
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Including Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony on this series ventured close to cliché: In an oft-told story, Beethoven, flush with anti-monarchical fervor, dedicated the symphony to Napoleon, only to void that gesture after Napoleon declared himself emperor.
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Thomas Jefferson thought the gathering of Congress to listen to him was a bit too monarchical in appearance, a criticism that many have made with the increasing pomp and circumstance surrounding modern State of the Union speeches.
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The gap has appeared, this argument goes, because France's most recent presidents have not been up to the job, and because the French don't want to be ruled anymore in a way that can feel quasi-monarchical.
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As they closed their case, the seven Democratic House managers who prosecuted it warned that Mr. Trump would emerge only emboldened in his monarchical tendencies and that those who appeased him would be judged harshly by history.
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De Gaulle's unwavering belief in his ability to embody the nation, and his modelling of a constitution topped with a near-monarchical presidency, also shaped the heavy expectations—and the disappointments—that have surrounded his successors ever since.
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What makes Mr. Grasso's lush film more than a promotional reel is its absent protagonist: François Hollande, who won the 2012 French election with promises to be "normal" and to abjure the monarchical airs of previous French presidents.
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However, he and other Gulf Arab politicians speaking at the forum also said they were in favor of controls to prevent anonymous posting and of punishing users who broke taboos by criticizing religion or calling to end monarchical rule.
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It also serves Saudi Arabia, giving the rich but sparsely populated kingdom a powerful protector against its more populous foreign enemies and a useful friend in maintaining monarchical rule long after most royal families had given up or fallen from power.
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" For insights on how the monarchical status of the president influences practical politics, Novak cited a 1967 memo by Richard Nixon advisor Ray Price, who wrote, "People identify with a President in a way they do with no other public figure.
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Obama should explain to voters that no president should ever treat immigrant children like criminals in cages as a matter of policy, or shamefully assert their cases should be decided by monarchical edict without due process or the rule of law.
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Trump cannot spend one penny of appropriated money without approval from Pelosi and House Democrats, though Senate Republicans are now considering whether they should submit to Trump asserting monarchical power to destroy the constitutional responsibilities of the Senate and House.
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For Macron, whose monarchical governing style early on prompted accusations of arrogance among voters and contributed to a sharp drop in his popularity, his first news conference at the Elysee palace will be crucial to regain lost ground with voters.
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If he contributed to our republic's deformation he did not act alone, and what he delivered was, in some sense, what both the political class and the public increasingly desire from their government: not republican deliberation but quasi-monarchical action.
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OLC Assistant Attorney General Karl R. Thompson's reinterpretation of section 85033A(a)(h)(3) describes a super-doctrine of executive discretion whereby the outgoing president could claim almost monarchical powers to issue work permits as well as amnesty en masse.
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Outsized personalities abound: the "dangerously monarchical" George Washington; the profligate, "sexy" Arnold, whose ego exceeded his status; the dissolute British general William Howe; the duplicitous commander and statesman Joseph Reed, whose zealous pursuit of Arnold may have precipitated his treachery.
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As her attempts to free Slaver's Bay by ruling through the same old monarchical system failed, they advise she abandon the "wheel" of Houses altogether, and instead capitalize on a common theme rising throughout the saga: the smallfolk's disenchantment with the ruling class.
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With the NFL embroiled in various controversies—from the monarchical ruling of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, to a ratings slump, to the political backlash to police brutality protests—It seems like the XFL is taking advantage of the political climate surrounding football.
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A year ago, this Reddit thread suggested that we're actually watching an allegorical tale about how dictatorships transition into democracy; that its characters will ultimately shun the uncomfortable Iron Throne, that it will end with the wheel of monarchical misrule finally broken.
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" The author of the piece, the Times's Jennifer Schuessler, comments: "It's an odd moment for the public to embrace an unabashed elitist who liked big banks, mistrusted the masses and at one point called for a monarchical presidency and a Senate that served for life.
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All of them are drawn from old fairy tales and legends, but Lion King feels the most archetypal: The animals fit into types, and the film on the whole vibes with a pro-monarchical view of leadership, laced with a historical anti-colonialist critique.
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Instead, it was a scandal surrounding his security chief, Alexandre Benalla, who was caught on video beating up a May Day protester — and Mr. Macron's refusal to answer questions about it from reporters — that once again underscored what his critics deride as his monarchical management style.
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A believer in perpetual motion in office, he is set on returning the presidency to its quasi-monarchical status—or perhaps even more, given that he once compared the occupant of the Élysée Palace to Jupiter (he has subsequently denied that he sees himself as the god of gods).
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It has become, for good reasons and bad ones, a seat of semi-monarchical political power, a fixed place on which unimaginable pressures are daily brought to bear, and the final stopping point for decisions that can lead very swiftly to life or death for people the world over.
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That began with its 18th century emergence as a lonely, revolutionary democracy, having thrown off the shackles of monarchical rule, to its role as the post-Cold War leader with Europe of a democratic community of countries that for the first time in history made up the global majority of nations.
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The oil-rich, monarchical Gulf state of Qatar was always a dubious choice to host a World Cup, to put it mildly, but the 2022 edition of the soccer world's crown jewel is now in jeopardy after several Middle Eastern neighbors abruptly cut diplomatic ties and closed its borders to Qatar.
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Potential presidents are measured against an ideal that's a combination of leading man, God, father, hero, pope, king..." Price also noted, shrewdly, that the media was not immune to the desire for a monarchical president: "The press may be better at rationalizing their prejudices, but the basic response remains an emotional one.
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Ransacked during the revolution in an anticlerical frenzy, restored and rebuilt during the 19th century after tempers cooled, site of imperial coronation, national liberation and presidential funerals, Notre-Dame became the nation's soul, the place where France could reconcile its turbulent history, the monarchical and the republican, the religious and the secular.
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And there it is, embedded in an impossibly sloppy visual metaphor: the yearning of adults in the horse hobby, buttressed by the great American lie of class mobility, is the universal cry for self-determination—either through monarchical wealth and power, or by seeking refuge in a land that, like Sergio Leone's wild west, doesn't exist.
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Instead, it's back to a single male ruler and a predominantly male council, and despite Bran's emphasis that future rulers will now be chosen by the noble houses of Westeros rather than monarchical lines of succession, there's no sign that things have changed in a way that would challenge the established power networks of the government.
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It was the latest in a string of recent controversies — including influence-peddling accusations against a close aide, a dust-up over an expensive new dinner service, and his scolding of a student — that have fed into accusations that Mr. Macron is a monarchical "president of the rich" who is out of touch with the French people.
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Both the 1974 report and the new one trace the origins of impeachment from monarchical England, where it was developed to hold the king's ministers to account, to colonial America, where the framers of the Constitution believed it was a necessary remedy to ensure that the leaders of the new republic did not corrupt it for their personal benefit.
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It is no exaggeration to suggest that with democracy under attack in America and Europe from an aggressive Russian dictator among others, it would be an epic constitutional disaster for democracy if the Supreme Court rejects highly relevant and arguably decisive precedents of the court in historic cases, and effectively rules that a monarchical president is above the law.
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But in other times and places, the same sculpture would likely conjure different associations: ten years ago, the more immediate association would probably have been the photographs of U.S. soldiers' human rights abuses in Abu Ghraib prison; in Revolutionary France, the work would perhaps have stoked anti-monarchical sentiment; in medieval Britain, it would likely have conjured the threat of physical public shaming.
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It's no surprise that the pardon power holds so much appeal for Trump: As one of the only monarchical powers imported from the British system into the US Constitution, the pardon gives the President the chance to play "king" even as he is powerless to stop special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation that seems to be creeping closer into his inner circle.
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Three decades ago, Gordon Wood, in " The Radicalism of the American Revolution ," asked us to see the Revolution in the broadest historical scale, and to realize that, whatever its failings and brutalities and hypocrisies, it represented a decisive break with doctrines of inherited power and monarchical rule, and a move toward democracy that had scarcely been so dramatically accomplished since very ancient times.
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His vertical way of exercising power — some call it Jupiterian, others monarchical — became more and more of a problem: his being surrounded by a small team of technocrats; the contempt he seemed to hold for people not lucky enough to be as successful as he was; his lack of knowledge of the local political terrain because he had never been elected before.
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For one thing, its leadership is essentially monarchical: Kim Il Sung handed power to his son, Kim Jong Il, who gave it to his son, Kim Jong Un. It's guided by an official ideology, Juche ("self-reliance"), that positions Koreans as a pure yet vulnerable people who are building authentic socialism but can only do so with the protection of a semi-divine leader from the Kim dynasty.
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Both Bach's music and his Calov notations put powerful stress upon: (1) contempt for human reason, along with the exalting of biblical revelation as the proper arbiter of truth; (2) disparagement of notions of human autonomy and achievement, along with the exalting of dependence on God, including for one's position in the social hierarchy; (3) contempt — explicit or implicit — for Judaism, Catholicism and Islam, along with the exalting of orthodox Lutheranism; (4) disdain for foreigners, along with the exalting of German faithfulness and goodness; and (5) the emphatic exalting of monarchical power, as authorized not by the people but by God.
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