So did the mass societies fostered by newly robust central governments ruling over dispersed, disparate populations whose members had somehow to be convinced that they owed their principal loyalty not to parish, village or province, but to what the scholar Benedict Anderson has called the "imagined community" of a distinct and coherent people: the nation.
Golf and its metaphors are central to the ruling American cabal in the novel, which controls Eville Burnette.
The political recovery of the Russian state after the Time of Troubles was largely due to the survival of the central bureaucracy and ruling oligarchy.
There is the ruling central vertical – the dove of the Holy Spirit, hovering wings-out and head-on, placed exactly above the trickle of baptismal water, which is exactly aligned with Jesus's divided beard, praying hands, navel.
The ruling central committee yesterday removed the health minister, Zhang Wenkang, who had insisted the crisis was "under control", and the Beijing mayor, Meng Xuenong, from their Communist party positions, essentially sacking them from their government jobs.
In the clear, simple and eminently enforceable peace agreement, South Sudan was granted three crucial things: robust participation in the central government while ruling the south semi-autonomously; a 50-50 split of all oil revenues (the country's oil is largely in the south); and the ability, in 2011, to vote to secede via referendum.
The local party is vigorously opposing the central party's ruling the candidate chosen must be female.
Tension rose the night before between members of Italy's ruling central right coalition Lega Nord (North League) and members of Gianfranco Fini's opposition party FLI, when Fini mockingly stated on Italian television that the North League's leader Umberto Bossi's wife retired at the age of 39.
Central retinal artery flow can be detected via ultrasound and may be important in ruling out central retinal artery occlusion.
