Alawites were placed at the commanding heights of authority, and the remainder of the diverse population was politically subjugated.
Innocenti resisted the temptation to calculate an overall score, because (see UNICEF 2007, page 39): In part this is to maintain opacity and avoid leaning too hard on limited data; composite indicators...need to be as transparent as possible both to keep the process open to debate and to avoid elevating the data to heights of authority that their foundations cannot sustain.
In part this is to maintain opacity and avoid leaning too hard on limited data; composite indicators...need to be as transparent as possible both to keep the process open to debate and to avoid elevating the data to heights of authority that their foundations cannot sustain.
He was at the height of his authority and power.
They declaim, from the height of aesthetic authority: "The shoe is everything!" "She's genius!" "You're the bomb!" Because to flatter someone means that you get their look, that you're in on the signals being telegraphed.
For he fled for refuge to Admetus, king of the Molossians, who had formerly made some request to the Athenians, when Themistocles was in the height of his authority, and had been disdainfully used and insulted by him, and had let it appear plain enough, that, could he lay hold of him, he would take his revenge.
At the height of his authority, he could provoke a major story in the fashion media by cutting six inches from a hemline as a way of making a statement that the hemline needed to retreat, and he could provoke a major story by dropping the hemline to make the opposite point.
If that Mission Accomplished moment in 2003 seemed at the time to be the height of American power and authority, then so it will remain -- unquestioned, unaltered, uninflected by subsequent public events that show it quite clearly to have been nothing of the kind.
At the height of Slademania, did the education authorities really complain that song titles such as Mama Weer All Crazee Now were corrupting the nation's youth?
A Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage jihad was charged in a plot to set off hand grenades at a shopping mall at the height of the Christmas rush, the authorities said.
Even during the height of the Reagan Revolution federal authorities used RICO, normally aimed at mafia titans, to prosecute Milken.
