Instead we are where we are, a power in permanent decline squabbling over which political party gets to administer the next hobnailed blow to our national pride.
We shouldn't introduce legislation that mimics some suburban version of the wild west, where the neighbour who is quickest off the draw gets to administer rough justice.
Separating out the solemn from the raucous, the slaughter at Gallipoli from the cult that has grown around it, and deciding who gets to administer the rites of the Anzac faith, has become a national pastime.
"First, she's got to administer the Clean Air Act to try to accomplish something for which it was never designed, the control of carbon dioxide, a difficult regulatory challenge in itself.
You get Blue Cross Blue Shield, he has United, and the medical people have got to administer all these programs at huge cost.
Mr. Ogletree said that in the video, an officer with his gun drawn can be heard using a racial epithet with a black Pace football player who was trying to get to Mr. Henry to administer first aid.
Catalonia enjoys more privileges than many, but only the Basque country and Navarre get to collect and administer their own taxes.
Sixth, the leaders of these federal administrative proxies — governors, mayors, corrections commissioners, defense contractors, nonprofit executives — lobby incessantly to keep or grow federal programs that their organizations get paid to administer.
