I met Li in 2008, and, despite frequent arrests, he believed that China was marching steadily toward greater rule of law.
The deadly attacks on Thursday again raise a question that analysts who study China often pose: whether China needs to establish greater rule of law and enforce true accountability among officials in order to ensure stability.
The fact that Bo was willing to take them on and stand up for the authority of the party was at least a step closer to greater rule of law and predictability in society.
Silence is our private sanctuary where we, and something greater, rule the endless terrain of our own awareness.
In 2003, a group of legal scholars, including Teng Biao and Xu Zhiyong, formed the Open Constitution Initiative to advocate for greater rule of law.
But in a country whose judicial system allows for the element of surprise as the rule, and pre-trial transparency and discovery as the exception, the sanctity of the greater "rule of law" issue is questionable.
However, the Convention takes the fight for greater democracy and greater rule of law in the European Union to a new level.
The scheduling mechanism ensures that a participant progresses through the exercises in a defined order, generally moving from more simple (e.g., easy to discriminate stimulus types, less response options) exercises to more complex (e.g., greater rule complexity, greater similarity between stimuli, etc).
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He possessed the gift of contracting "the great rules of life into short sentences".
