No one knows better how destructive secrecy is for maintaining systems of justice, ethics and democracy than these self-proclaimed "open government" watchdogs.
The twenty-first century, while maintaining systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tends to prevail over the political.
Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for international development, last Thursday called for rich countries to assist poorer ones in setting up and maintaining systems of universal healthcare, to back 10-year plans for education and to help create lifelong social security systems.
54 In the Netherlands, a comprehensive and well maintained system of cycle tracks, physically protected from fast motor traffic, have helped to make cycling widespread at all ages 35 and reduce the risks of injury.
The surface accuracy maintaining system consists of a surface measuring system [77], a control system, and actuators placed on the reflector surface [78, 79].
System-level fault diagnosis has long been a subject for the purpose of maintaining system reliability.
Any acts of care cannot justify maintaining a system of suffering.
Those who enforce celibacy on the basis of sexuality are maintaining a system of oppression that brings misery and loneliness to many.
Both ask not what the origin of any given social behaviour may be but how it contributes to maintaining the system of which it is a part.
Having admitted no black students for its first 160 years, the University of Georgia has been more tenacious than most of its peers in maintaining its system of assigning bonus points to nonwhite students to increase their chances of admission.
Sofronoff said no Australian law was valid if it obstructed freedom of political speech "unless it is reasonably adapted to a proper end consistent with maintaining our system of government".
