Interesting, but when you're warning that divesting powers from Westminster could lead to corruption you need to be careful these days as people will undoubtedly wave the MPs' expenses scandal in your face.
The party's immediate future looks to be one of social-democratic orthodoxy.The Conservative manifesto, meanwhile, reveals the influence of a few advisers whose zeal to make Britain's centralised state divest power is quite evangelical ("Tocquevillian Tories", one blogger calls them).
This is the travel of dismay – dismay means being divested of power or ability.
Mr. Zardari's supporters argue that by divesting his powers, Mr. Zardari is fulfilling a promise he made two years ago when he became president and that the step will deprive his enemies in politics, the military and the media of ammunition against him.
But he could not do so without the say-so of the country's army which, divested of power since an election in February, is feeling a resurgence of antipathy towards India.
He stripped the prose poem of its anecdotal, narrative, and descriptive content and used words for their evocative and associative power, divesting them of their logical or dictionary meaning.
In a statement on Tuesday, Senator Charles E. Schumer urged the commission to allow Iberdrola to acquire Energy East without divesting its wind power holdings, while keeping careful watch on whether rates increased as a result.
Well, I'm writing now, however, not in an age of Clintonian triangulation, but in an age where the notion of conservative Republicans seeing as their first duty divesting themselves of the power they have been given seems perfectly absurd.
Even the corset – a totem of clothes as a tool for turning women into sirens – was debunked at Prada, divested of its power when worn loosely-laced over a woollen coat.
