Before colonization, Cameroon was a territory of diverse climatic zones populated by a variety of peoples and polities. |
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Only gradually in the course of this period were polities defined in clear terms of territory and explicit geographical sensibility. |
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In national polities, designers of constitutions have solved this problem by creating institutions for confidential consultation or deliberation. |
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What about the legitimacy of citing the decisions of constitutional courts in other polities? |
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How much control, and what sort of control, was exercised by dynasts over the coinage of polities under their sway? |
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This would continue for some time in Byzantium and in Scandinavia, in polities of strong public power or weak aristocracies. |
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Yes, the U.S. and France were both capitalist economies and republican polities. |
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Such then are the conditions of the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan and the Carthaginian polities which have all a just and high reputation. |
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One finds a multitude of nondemocratic regimes there, ranging from monarchical kingdoms to authoritarian polities. |
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Empirically, some spectacular cases of economic success under autocratic polities have weakened the economic case for democracy. |
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Meeting the challenge of achieving more equitable societies, polities and economies requires a determined effort to attack poverty. |
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The gulf between mercantile hubs and the polities in which they are lodged is not new. |
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Modern representative democracy is a compromise, made necessary by the very size and complexity of modern polities. |
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The king's mother held the most politically influential position a woman could obtain in most of the Owambo polities. |
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They blame conflict in divided polities on partisan discrimination by the state, and on manipulative demagogues. |
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But many of the ostensibly more liberal Asian polities also display the symptoms, especially where prickly nationalists are in charge. |
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Building large states or polities was difficult under those political conditions, but a number of African chiefs founded national kingdoms, including King Shaka of the Zulu. |
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In other words, in spite of the facade of the modern state, power in most African polities progresses informally, between patron and client along lines of reciprocity. |
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In the Kavango polities royal women in positions of authority were nothing exceptional. |
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The territories are not full partners in the federation, but are treated as polities in their own right for many purposes. |
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Equally important is the notion of language management, especially in the multilingual polities of Africa. |
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The seven Namibian Owambo polities are located in the north-central part of Namibia. |
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Supporting the rebuilding of societies, polities and economies riven by conflict is one of the United Nations' major responsibilities. |
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Such trends are contributing to a growing sense of apathy, disaffection, resignation, disquiet and anger among the people in democratic polities. |
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Consequently, we ask what influence Western countries exert on these polities in their role as donors. |
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Indeed, to grasp the importance of agencies within a large number of today's polities, one must first understand their inextricable link with the growth of regulatory public policies. |
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The republic leaders govern very different polities. |
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Surprisingly, in the discussion, diversity was not used in utilitarian terms as connoting a source of dynamic efficiency in modern socio-economies and polities. |
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They had a common linguistic, religious and artistic heritage that distinguished them from the culture of the surrounding polities. |
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History shows that economic crises often catalyse unhealthy trends in our societies and polities like chauvinism, racism, human rights violations and abrogation of the rule of law. |
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Perhaps what has been criminalized is polities, an industry that seems to be especially comfortable with lying. |
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Generally, federalism is held to be an appropriate model for polities in which there is a relatively high degree of preestablished local political identity, but increasingly also a wider political commonality. |
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They are fighting a lonely battle against a rich, corrupt and entrenched political class, braving occasional death threats to try to clean up one of the world's filthiest polities. |
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What we are now witnessing, these critics add, are local communities shrugging off this failing colonial legacy, remaking polities and indigenous systems of governance which better match local realities and meet local needs. |
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The borders fixed by European mapmakers created unwieldy polities that had to struggle through painful and often violent processes of nation-building. |
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Africa has young polities, and its democracy is still fragile. |
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How to govern multi-ethnic, multi-national, and multi-religious polities remains a major challenge for political leaders and policy makers throughout the world. |
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As a simple matter of law, citizenship, or nationality, is the primary category by which peoples are classified and distributed in polities across the globe. |
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Community polities can also play an important role in the prevention of diseases and the protection of public health, not just in respect of those diseases defined as diseases of civilisation, but also of mental illness. |
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Rather, it is the fruit of major transformations in modern polities and political economies. It is a signal as well as a symptom of profound changes and questioning. |
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Linked to the emergence of a new class of armed non-hereditary officials, the omalenga, was the demise of remnants of an earlier kinship-based organization in the administration of the Owambo polities. |
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Similarly, Ferguson did not believe citizens built the state, rather polities grew out of social development. |
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An important difference was the gradual loss of tax revenue by the new polities. |
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In political science, it has long been a goal to create a typology or taxonomy of polities, as typologies of political systems are not obvious. |
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The reasons for these weaknesses vary, but generally can be simplified into decentralized polities, or religious sites. |
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These polities differ from states because of their lack of a fixed, defined territory. |
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Thomas Hobbes was a highly significant figure in the conceptualisation of polities, and in particular of states. |
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In West Africa, the decline of the Atlantic slave trade in the 1820s caused dramatic economic shifts in local polities. |
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The militia in Jamestown saw constant action against the Powhatan Federation and other native polities. |
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Indigenous Berbers subsequently started to form their own polities in response in places such as Fez and Sijilmasa. |
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Different nations have different forms of polities, from provinces and states to territories and municipalities. |
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At times, different polities achieved regional dominance, such as Calakmul, Caracol, Mayapan, and Tikal. |
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The empire dissolved into petty polities, fighting among each other for war captives to sell into slavery. |
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In recent years, visions of transnational racial polities have dominated. |
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The same preferences are reflected in what the polities omit to do. |
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These preferences are reflected in what the polities do, how they behave. |
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Without good polities regarding the issuance, transfer and management of stock certificates, a business owner can lose track of the exact ownership interests in his company. |
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North Africa saw the rise of polities formed by the Berbers, such as the Marinid dynasty in Morocco, the Zayyanid dynasty in Algeria, and the Hafsid dynasty in Tunisia. |
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In some places, such as India and North America, tribes are polities that have been granted legal recognition and limited autonomy by the national states. |
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Drews suggests that the political instability that this brought to centralised states based upon maryannu chariotry caused the breakdown of these polities. |
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Elsewhere in Gaul, the Franks and Celtic Britons set up small polities. |
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The first attested Slavic polities were Serbia and Great Moravia, the latter of which emerged under the aegis of the Frankish Empire in the early 9th century. |
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Among the early Philippine polities, this arrangement fulfilled the requirements for trade with China, but did not actually translate into political or military control. |
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Highly coherent polities have higher mean durability scores than incoherent and anocratic polities, both for the whole sample and for each subsample. |
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Some polities engaged in a strategy of increasing administration, and filling administrative posts with loyal supporters rather than blood relatives. |
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Before contact with Europeans, the natives of North America were divided into many different polities, from small bands of a few families to large empires. |
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