The AKP owns the bureaucracy, controls the media, has returned the army to barracks and marginalised the military, traditional arbiters of Turkish politics.
That unexpected decision came about after he had instructed another team of officers to sit in on the work of the officers handling the case, to act as sceptical arbiters.
They dispute the notion that the Brussels institutions are always impartial arbiters of Europe's common interests, pointing out that they have their own interest in grabbing more power for themselves.
Architects and designers, like Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, long ago tried to eliminate clutter from the home, and, along with the arbiters of taste, the high cost of housing argues against clutter.
Does their isolation from the political process make them unacceptable final arbiters in a modern democracy, the first principle of which must be majority rule?Unelected and unaccountable courts, when making law rather than applying it, do not have legitimacy and are not responsible to the democratic process.
But for anyone with energy left, here is my print column: IN MUCH of continental Europe, where over-manning is rife, two separate arbiters are needed to settle the essential Christmas question of whether children have been naughty or nice.
Such opprobrium owes much to the fact that, although they are flawed arbiters, the rating agencies can speak uncomfortable truths.
If so, he will take office on May 16th.As names of a would-be successor to Mr Demirel began to fly around last month, the generals, who still consider themselves the ultimate arbiters of Turkish politics, began to fret.
As its spokesmen pose preposterously as arbiters of the arcana of reincarnation, they just could be providing cover for such an about-face.
Algorithms and online recommendations threaten to replace them as arbiters of quality.
In previous cases when graduate students have sought to unionise in their capacity as teachers, arbiters have generally been persuaded by these points and rejected the petitions.But Peter Sung Ohr, the NLRB's regional director in Chicago, found that Northwestern's football players were athletes first and students second, and were therefore employees of the university.
