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Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence through society can have unexpected results.
Rationalist explanations of civil conflict have emphasized the co-ordination problems faced by would-be opponents of stable governance.
It is no coincidence that thefirsttask of any would-be dictator is to seize control of all information outlets.
Another possibility is that the would-be victim is innocent in a more robust sense.Put another way, it might be the degree of institutional permeability that dictates whether a would-be entrepreneur can successfully challenge existing boundaries of institutional authority.
The sheer number and variety of food products, and complex combinations of ingredients in many processed foods, seem a major obstacle to any would-be regulator.
Based on the negative results, the would-be universality of apparent motion trajectories will then be reconsidered, reevaluating the example of kinematic geometry.
Instead, oh-prefacing becomes a resource by which a would-be troubles-teller can unaccountably and self-attentively induce a recipient to adopt the role of a troubles-recipient.
It would have been useful to have had more facts about what parents or would-be parents actually do in practice.
They were also sometimes seized and moved by rulers and would-be rulers seeking to make use of their symbolic power.
In some other ways, the linkages between the would-be incorporative national system were growing.And telling would-be learners of the diverse experiences of other learners does not tell them what they should do themselves.
But it does not follow that the state should enforce the agent-relative duties of the would-be exploiters.
On the evidence of this volume the fourteenth century was indeed not a propitious period for would-be tyrants.
Yet in what modern household could this dictionary fit, even if the would-be purchaser could afford the £1,500 to buy it?
If the would-be counselor loves us and is trustworthy, we should always listen to his advice, and often accept his judgment.
Electronic dictionaries abound, so a would-be intruder can easily respond to the password prompt with the whole lexicon.
The two tenants recalled with satisfaction the gossip that had soon spread about how the would-be visitor had been rebuffed.
But pluralism also places daunting obstacles in the way of would-be theorists. In the end the would-be assassin was himself unsure about his chances of success.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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