Can it be without milk?'"...That is, while acknowledging China's legal system as very much an instrument of rule, Xi's constitutional language goes far towards building a consensus that what China has is "law without rights" (i.e., law that may gradually have rights mixed into it) rather than law whose missing quotient is some specific Party standard of ideological righteousness (as in the past).
When it came to aggressive growth instruments, the rule of thumb was: "If it keeps you awake at night, don't do it"–as if risk tolerance were a function of your personality type.
This new concept straddles the middle ground between "rule of law" (limiting the power of the state with law) and "rule by law" (using law as an instrument to rule the people).
Both want to update RIPA and beef up the instruments of oversight: two commissioners, who rule on the legality of spy operations, and Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which takes a broader view.
It may pit the weak against the strong, the few against the many, but it also pits surprise against habit, indiscriminate attack against rules, the instruments of war against unarmed civilians.
But the Colorado Party, the creole fascist outfit that was the instrument of Stroessner's rule, remained in power.
The less you are familiar with the idea of the agent provocateur as an instrument of oppression and rule the more you will shudder at the wiles used by the Ministry of Love in Mr. Orwell's London of 1984, "chief city of Airstrip One, Oceana".
The Iranian lawyer Hirad Abtahi argues that viewing the Cylinder as merely "an instrument of legitimizing royal rule" is unjustified, as Cyrus issued the document and granted those rights when he was at the height of his power, with neither popular opposition nor visible external threat to force his hand.
Napoleon based his rule on the instruments of the French Revolution, such as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Political analysts have noted the irony that the Communists, who imprisoned thousands of clerics during their 42 years of totalitarian rule, used the instruments of democracy to try to prosecute a priest who disagreed with them.
