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I cannot separate my achievements from what can be considered as the achievements of the ruling party.
Meles Zenawi
Party
Considered
Ruling
Achievements
Cannot
Separate
The Citizens United ruling opened the door for tax-exempt social welfare organizations to spend substantial portions of their funds on campaign activities, without having to disclose where that money came from.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Money
Welfare
Disclose
Spend
Ruling
Citizens
Having
Opened
Without
Came
Campaign
Substantial
Where
Door
Social
Organizations
Social Welfare
Activities
United
Portions
Funds
A Supreme Court ruling is supposed to provide clarity to contentious legal issues, but in the case of reproductive rights, it was just the beginning of a long, heated, and grueling debate.
Mike Quigley
Rights
Legal
Debate
Long
Beginning
Ruling
Clarity
Case
Supposed
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Issues
Provide
Heated
Just
Reproductive
Grueling
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
N. T. Wright
Bible
Discipline
Sense
Ruling
Constrained
Write
Studies
New
Until
Felt
Testament
Up
New Testament
Turned
Then
Much
Theology
Elite
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.
Nick Harkaway
Memory
Collective
Power
Earth
Ruling
Imperial
Lifetime
Well
Within
Surface
Least
Stable
Human
Being
Tumultuous
Which
Span
Decline
Britain
Fraction
The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.'
Nina Easton
Invent
Unions
Spending
Corporations
Ruling
Citizens
Running
Rather
More
Directly
Ads
Advocate
Enables
Issue
Than
Behalf
Did
Candidate
Subtle
United
I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
Patricia Millett
Legal
Try
Will
Think
Ruling
Easily
Hopefully
Vivid
About
Case
Develop
Implications
Heads
Principles
Stick
How
Understood
Very
Influence
Justices
Themes
Hard
Help
Paint
Images
Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people's dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.
Paul Craig Roberts
Man
People
Wealth
Enemies
Understanding
Reputation
President
Ruling
Insight
Risk
More
Could
Had
He
Powerful
Known
Opponents
His
Trump
Than
Establishment
Acquiring
Realize
Elected
Meant
Many
Dissatisfaction
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson
Class
Peace
Drive
Minds
Danger
Ruling
Ruling Class
East
Threatened
Propaganda
Fact
Hysteria
Leaders
Stepped
Because
False
Up
American
In Fact
Them
Land
Notion
Deep
Deep Desire
Desire
Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?
Peter Bergen
Terrorism
Conservative
Political
Will
Stronger
Seen
Party
Conservative Party
Backlash
Ruling
Minister
Rival
Main
Prime
Prime Minister
Than
Labour
Labour Party
May
Against
Theresa
Whose
British
I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.
Peter Hain
Freedom
People
Prosperity
Achieve
Power
Our
Once
Ruling
Must
Strongly
Support
His
Clique
Again
Against
Sanctions
Help
European
Zimbabwe
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Pierre Corneille
Few
Pleasures
Ruling
Having
Generous
Won
Disdain
After
The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.
Richard Corliss
Great
Class
Wind
Be True
Gone
Books
Ruling
Ruling Class
Dared
Wrath
Both
True
Were
Controversial
Movies
Gone With The Wind
Themes
Turned
Viewpoint
Grapes
Novels
Two
Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.
Ron DeSantis
Class
Long
Too
Fathers
Way
Ruling
Ruling Class
Would
Restoring
Mentality
Long Way
Towards
Term
Term Limits
Limits
Go
Ethos
Congressional
Many
Display
Washington
Founding
Founding Fathers
We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.
Ron DeSantis
Class
Law
Before
Distinct
Ruling
Ruling Class
Wrong
Supposed
Equal
Separate
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
Ryan Stiles
Dark
Sit
Earth
Ruling
Someday
Chess
Refine
Taping
Room
Plans
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
You
Old
Past
Approach
Ruling
Critical
Self-Critical
Understand
Current
Lack
Incapable
Assessment
Actually
Elite
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
Saint Basil
Soul
Heart
Thought
Men
Our
Ruling
Easily
Prone
Purity
He
Part
Individually
Primary
Sin
Major
Knowing
Concern
Sins
Impulse
Intention
Ordained
Formed
Who
Therefore
Each
Element
Received
Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples.
Sarah McBride
Parenting
Rights
Marriage
Equality
First
Community
Ruling
Marriage Equality
High
Colors
He
True
Reach
Couples
Court
Opinions
Limiting
His
Denying
Same-Sex
Landmark
Certain
President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'
Scott Shane
Acceptance
Confession
Guilt
President
Ruling
Carried
Carries
Pardon
Never
He
Supreme
Supreme Court
Ford
Court
Said
Leaving
His
Years
Office
Wallet
Scrap
After
Many
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
Stephen Kinzer
Anger
Relationships
Collapse
Ruling
Tend
Leaders
Between
Deals
Popular
Based
Elites
I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.
Stuart Rose
Life
Buy
Time
Great
Business
My Life
Wish
Gone
Down
Ruling
All My Life
Out
Possibly
Would
Could
Had
Employee
Great Time
Still
Been
Different
Anyway
If I Could
Route
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
Tariq Ali
Home
Democracy
Think
Ruling
Abroad
Parties
West
Same
Decline
Wars
The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democratic than any regime run by any clique the Chinese Communist Party's ruling elite has vomited up since the days of Mao Zedong.
Terry Glavin
Party
President
Ruling
Run
More
Brutally
Since
Days
Clique
Up
Than
Any
Vicious
Regime
Chinese
Communist
Mao
Elite
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.
Tom Lantos
Generation
Wealth
Political
Will
Free
Power
Enormous
Despite
Ruling
Free Flow
Remains
Absolutely
Particularly
Undermine
Legitimacy
Information
China
Younger
Younger Generation
Petrified
Among
Elite
Flow
In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.
Tom Reiss
First
France
Top
Ruling
Carried
East
Out
Invasion
General
Directory
Instead
Napoleon
Became
West
Revolutionary
Modern
Egypt
Middle
Ordered
Middle East
Which
Plan
Organized
England
Oligarchy
Early
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