Iraq's new prime minister, Iyad Allawi, denounced power saboteurs as traitors.
Alas, politicians get elected by denouncing price increases and denouncing power plants, so any kind of marketplace solution like this is not going to occur.
It's a cliché for a candidate to denounce the power of Washington insiders and the corruption of lobbyists' wealth.
Early in this sprawling, wry, opinionated, beautifully written memoir, Edward Conlon writes that he laughs a little whenever editorials denounce police power.
Plato denounced the power that Homer's poetry held over the popular culture of the day.
In October, Miguel Patiño, the bishop of Apatzingan, a city in troubled Michoacan, released an open letter denouncing the power of drug gangs there and reportedly received death threats after speaking out.
But in a state that is growing increasingly conservative and with a history of denouncing western powers, switching tact so dramatically into alliances with Washington and London may mean that Assad will have to be careful to avoid the fate of Sadat of Egypt.
Tuesday's forced resignation of Bob Diamond, the Barclays chief executive, follows well-worn procedures for dealing with crises that potentially threaten those in power: denounce the worst offenders, let a few symbolic heads roll, set up an inquiry under a safe pair of hands, and tweak the regulations to prevent a repetition of the most egregious misdemeanours.
The army is keeping quiet for now; but its civilian backers are already denouncing the Brothers' power grab.
He set great store by ordered liberty and denounced the arbitrary power of the Jacobins who had captured the French Revolution.
