The dukes (dux) were originally the commanders of an armed retinue (drużyna) with which they broke the authority of the chieftains of the clans, thus transforming the original tribal organization into a territorial unit.
History suggests that once the story broke, the authorities' response would be an immediate muddying of the waters – lest the world assume that a Chinese citizen, who had committed a first illegal act by having a child out of wedlock, was pushed to commit a second through fear of repercussion, with the second being an offence against human conscience.
Instead of waiting for drivers to break the law, authorities can simply prevent the crime.
If people break the law, the authorities must dispassionately intervene.
"The street hasn't managed to break the bones of the authority, and the authorities haven't managed to break the bones of the street," said Louay Hussein, an opposition figure in Damascus, the capital.
The leftists also managed in important ways to break the party's authority over the big industrial unions.
City officials said Mr. Bloomberg was not slighting or snubbing the transit workers, but just standing up to a union that has threatened to break the law and the authority's budget.
Unless Siegelman filed an election contest in the courts, Pryor said, county canvassing boards throughout the state did not have the authority "to break the seals on ballots and machines under section 17-9-31" of the constitution.
Katherine E. Finkelstein (NYT) BRONX: FIREFIGHTERS CAPTURE STABBING SUSPECT A South Bronx man suspected of stabbing his wife yesterday was chased and tackled by a group of firefighters on their lunch break, the authorities said.
Taking up his office in the summer of 1633, he immediately set himself to consolidate the royal authority, break the power of the dominant clique of "new English" landowners, extend English settlement, improve methods of agriculture, increase the productivity of the land, and stimulate industry and trade.
