This was not in reaction to specific events, but reflected an endemic suspicion of nefarious political activities or subservience to unlawful interests.

For 25 years they thwarted the aspirations of the nation to development and progress through the intimidation and torture of the population and submission and subservience to outsiders.

These democracies face a difficult challenge to establish or restore public confidence in institutions that have often been discarded by their subservience to power, corruption and violation of human rights.

In this vast tribe, members of the female sex... rule and govern... and systematically deny equal rights to the men... made weak and puny by years of subservience... too weak to revolt.

Occasionally Blair flirts with the idea of more European cooperation on foreign policy and defense. But the past three years proved in practice that he prefers subservience to the war policy of President Bush to any sense of community with Europe.

On the other hand, existing studies (Loforte, 1996) show that in the in areas surrounding the city of Maputo Zionism and animist religions reproduce subservience relationships for women who occupy this evangelization position whereas their male counterparts occupy leadership positions.

Wedged awkwardly between China, Russia, and Japan, the Korean Peninsula has long been a bloody battleground for greater powers. Korean rulers only managed to survive by playing one foreign power off against the other, and by offering subservience, mainly to Chinese emperors, in exchange for protection.

Frustrated with a bureaucracy reluctant to implement his political vision, Qaddafi bypassed traditional institutions and claimed a direct dialogue with the country s population. The new Libyan leader created an intricate hierarchy of political organizations that were advertised as empowering citizens, but which in reality only reinforced their subservience to his autocratic regime.

In extended families, or in more or less nuclear families, in monogamies or polygamies, in the cities or in the countryside's, in all of these relationships, women occupy a position of subservience and are subject to different forms that assume the form of discrimination according to age and the degree of wealth.

Unable to overcome popular distrust, owing to its longstanding symbiosis with the bureaucrats and subservience to the US, the LDP has been incapable of holding the DPJ accountable in the legislature. Instead, the LDP, having failed to reinvigorate itself and attract allies, has occasionally taken a buck passing approach, such as permitting the DPJ to pass an unpopular but inevitable and necessary increase in the consumption tax.

This assumption not only ignored the kuru tragedy it also overlooked the hundreds of young people who had died of spongiform encephalopathy after receiving growth hormones extracted from human corpses. This mixture of hubris, ignorance, and subservience to commercial interests reached peak toxicity in 1990, when the UK s agriculture minister, John Gummer, televised his daughter eating a hamburger, declaring that British beef was safe.