I was delighted when a new generation of young women took up the cudgels.
He co-wrote another, "Nudge", examining how governments can use gentle coaxing rather than legal cudgels to achieve socially desirable ends.
Perhaps the only thing that might dent the popularity she and her party enjoy would be for her to take up the cudgels on behalf of this benighted minority.
In a particularly violent part of Gómez Palacio, in the northern state of Durango, children counselled on gender equality have painted street scenes showing men carrying cudgels and verbally abusing women.
But crying foul got him little attention.No fightingThe presence of security forces across the country on election day including irregulars armed with cudgels—has so far seen off any chance of popular unrest.
The electoral commission is dominated by the MPLA and voter lists have not been audited externally.The fact that the government nonetheless feels obliged to use the crudest of cudgels points to a sense of insecurity in the face of technological change.
Comparing a millennium village with a randomly chosen one "will add surprisingly little"; the proper comparison is with a region or a country as a whole.David McKenzie of the World Bank then took up the cudgels.
It took up the cudgels of press freedom after the Soviet Union's collapse.
In the fourth century, before scholastic debate was properly formalised, zealous Christians called Circumcellions roamed north Africa braining theological opponents with cudgels.
Britain's charities took up their cudgels, arguing that reducing the tax break would diminish donations and thus their ability to do good works.
In a cruelly opportunist move, the Pakistan Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister, now a popular opposition leader, took up cudgels against the American aid bill.
