Governments based on communal power sharing can be extremely damaging for national reconciliation in a country like Iraq which is recovering from civil war.
The assessment implicitly contradicted the Administration's rhetoric by declaring the violence in Iraq to be driven by a communal power struggle in which the Iraqi government was one of the main actors.
In its sympathetic portrayal of the mad boy Barnaby, and in its evocation of a turbulent London, it transcends the usual boundaries of the historical novel and becomes a complete statement of human weakness and communal power.
The words of the poet and radio personality Olga Berggolts make plain the communal power of the broadcasts that continued throughout the siege: "We transmitted for the whole city verse and news and information about the bread ration".
In a widely quoted speech given Thursday, Razaleigh Hamzah, a former finance minister, said the governing party, founded on a formula of communal power sharing, "had ossified into what appeared to be an eternal racial contract, a model replicated at every level of national life".
When devolution was renewed in 2007, the son of the first minister, Ian Paisley, who walked past Craig's statue in the grand building celebrating Protestant communal power at Stormont, was embroiled in a row over his relationship with Seymour Sweeney, a developer and member of Paisley's Democratic Unionist party.
The U.S. restricts not just the price but also the amount of solar energy an owner can sell back to the communal power grid.
He attributed part of that hopelessness to the fact that farmers have lost some of their communal power to corporate practices, namely companies staking out intellectual property claims around technologies that can help produce more or better foods.
There was something utopian about their ideas, re-investing art with a DIY communal power.
For Serge and other artists participating at the festival, it's clear the solution lies within the individual and communal power of Africans themselves.
