Far from representing a benevolent local government, the tower functions as a metaphorical big brother.
One of the characters is called Arletty, and a benevolent local detective dresses like a cop in a Melville thriller.
The record of strong basic education goes back nearly a century to benevolent local rajas, in what were the states of Travancore and Cochin, and to Christian missionaries Christians make up 20% of the population.
Legal blogger Scott Lemieux on Lawyers, Guns and Money also weighed in, on this point about Wolf's view of how US government works: "In this case, there seems to be an implicit states' "rights" assumption at work – authoritarian actions could not be the result of our benevolent local overlords but must be the work of the big bad feds".
The humanitarian effort evident on Lesbos is a far cry from the summer, when those arriving by sea were met by just a few local volunteers and benevolent tourists who would drive weary refugees to the port of Mytilene.
He told us about a local trail haunted by benevolent spirits.
(Cole gives an interesting explanation, not available in other accounts, of how the Egyptians had exploited outbreaks of plague in the years before Napoleon's arrival as a means of fending off Ottoman control of the region, and hence were well versed in the tactics of using local misery to defeat benevolent foreign occupiers).
These programs are what Councilman Benson was referring to when he talked about connecting striving families with "training opportunities [and] supportive resources such as Benevolent and local employers".
With Blues Control, a local group that alternates between somewhat benevolent atmospherics and crushing, fuzzed-out blues-rock.
Therefore, neither the close relationship between local cadres and the masses nor "benevolent" rule can account for the emergence of "good" policies.
Google could benefit from the tie-up as the benevolent rich uncle, using the local firm as a proxy for its commercial aims.
