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2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.
Matt Taibbi
Government
Constitution
Safety
Half
National
Other
Security
Prompted
Direction
Name
Economy
Up
Authorities
American
National Security
American Economy
After
While
Public
Public Safety
Tear
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
Mel Brooks
Character
Made
Back
Books
Brooks
Russian
Never
He
Like
Always
His
Existed
Up
Authorities
Max
Story
Quotes
Professor
Brilliance
Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms.
Michael Ignatieff
Will
Face
Politicians
Rejection
Other
Way
System
Remains
Allow
Instant
Global
Terms
Ultimate
Governments
Dictate
Authorities
Authority
Any
Any Other Way
Transnational
Electorate
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
Michael Shermer
Best
Blindly
Control
Our
Moral
Follow
Instead
Concede
How
Provided
Authorities
Behave
Just
Communities
Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Business
Phones
Valid
Tapping
Authorities
Requisite
Grounds
Serious
A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.
Nazanin Boniadi
Election
First
Presidential
Presidential Election
Open
Support
Arrest
Opposition
Iran
Iranian
Led
July
Celebrated
Authorities
Hugely
Native
Aftermath
Which
Landed
Radar
Figure
Popular
Actress
Her
Disputed
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.
Nigel Lawson
Become
Benefit
Spending
High
Rapidly
Would
London
Give
Forced
Inevitably
Surrogate
Authorities
Poll
Tax
Should
Many
Income
Income Tax
Inner
All the time, Ukraine was an oligarch country. And all the time, oligarchs were together with the authorities. And this is the first time where we, and me as a president, undertake the serious task to limit the power of the oligarchs.
Petro Poroshenko
Time
Me
Together
Power
First
Country
President
Ukraine
First Time
Limit
Undertake
Were
Task
Authorities
Where
Serious
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
People
Social Media
Every
Local
Press
Topics
About
Online
Week
Hot
Almost
Particular
Town
Call
How
Authorities
Official
Stories
Chinese
Regional
Social
Used
Expose
Even
Village
Media
Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Legal
People
Sometimes
Political
Political Power
Social Media
Internet
Power
Thanks
Circles
Scandals
General
Having
Struggles
Taken
Longer
Major
Particular
Wrongdoing
Within
Without
Least
Accountable
Authorities
Reforms
Any
Hold
Place
Chinese
Social
Chinese People
Mechanism
Media
Now
Actual
Elite
Kept
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
Richard Attenborough
Love
War
Wonderful
Cinema
Think
About
Had
Performance
Supposed
Know
Well
Authorities
Want
Which
Sandra
Sandra Bullock
Sandy
Who
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley
Other
Those
More
Hospital
Been
Left
Than
Author
Authorities
Departing
Any
Behind
Patients
Works
Copies
We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress.
Ron Lewis
Me
Fight
Congress
State
Local
Our
Resources
Top
Ensure
Colleagues
Must
Federal
Support
Combat
Priority
Continue
Authorities
Epidemic
Many
Growing
Necessary
Here
Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.
Ron Wyden
Country
Respected
Rules
One Country
Independent
Rather
Countries
Undercut
Industries
Another
Trade
Begin
Authorities
Decide
Wars
International
Appealing
International Trade
Violate
Started
Under international law, defendants convicted in absentia have the right to a retrial, unless the prosecutors for the authorities who do finally capture them can show that the defendants knew they were under indictment.
Ronen Bergman
Law
Unless
Finally
Indictment
Knew
Prosecutors
Were
Authorities
Them
Convicted
Show
Who
International
Capture
International Law
Right
In the case of the Syrian refugees, most of them are male. Most of them are of military age, and yes, it is a significant security issue in that a background check is only as good as the authorities have information on them.
Ryan Zinke
Good
Age
Military
Background
Syrian
Significant
Security
Case
Only
Check
Most
Issue
Male
Yes
Authorities
Refugees
Information
Them
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
Stellan Skarsgard
War
Best
Director
Seen
Films
Constantly
See
Russian
Struggling
Allowed
He
Days
Named
Come
Were
His
Authorities
Did
War Movies
Movies
Themselves
Communist
Who
Express
Ever
The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne'er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider who might threaten the trade.
Susie Dent
Criminal
Indeed
Collections
Threaten
Outsider
Trade
Were
Dictionaries
Authorities
Any
Might
Means
Who
Slang
Amongst
Earliest
To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in conflict with your own people - that is truly terrible.
Svetlana Alexievich
Conflict
People
Own
One Thing
Russian
Writers
Terrible
Got
Truly
Authorities
Your
Used
Thing
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Women
People
Word
Men
Power
Point
Point Of View
Morocco
No-One
Authorities
Poor
Poor People
Asked
View
Belonged
I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
Vijay Mallya
Criminal
Hunt
Authorities
Who
Hardened
Need
The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threatens political and cultural authorities who believe in telling individuals what they can have rather than letting them choose for themselves.
Virginia Postrel
Political
Opportunities
Internet
Believe
Telling
Unparalleled
Exactly
Exactly What
Threatens
Rather
Individuals
Abundance
Goods
Cultural
Sources
Than
Authorities
Get
Authority
Tastes
Want
Information
Them
Themselves
Creates
Choose
Who
Letting
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.
Viswanathan Anand
World
Single
Positives
Record
Had
Emphasizing
Venue
Chess
Been
Authorities
Games
Largest
World Record
Number
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
Wang Jianlin
Politics
Government
More
Remain
Individuals
Deal
Close
Authorities
Means
Less
Away
The blockchain is custom-made for decentralizing trust and exchanging assets without central intermediaries. With the decentralization of trust, we will be able to exchange anything we own and challenge existing trusted authorities and custodians that typically held the keys to accessing our assets or verifying their authenticity.
William Mougayar
Trust
Challenge
Will
Blockchain
Own
Keys
Our
Able
Exchange
Exchanging
Without
Verifying
Existing
Trusted
Authenticity
Authorities
Anything
Central
Custodian
Held
Assets
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard
Work
Freedom
Dictatorship
Pure
Secretly
Slightly
Totalitarian
Write
Envied
Put
Idea
Readers
Authorities
Intense
Jail
Artists
Autocracy
Oxygen
Want
While
Interest
Interested
Them
Younger
Working
Who
Gratification
Whom
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