To be clear, Mr. Brown eventually voted for the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation in 2010, but only in return for the watering down of meaningful changes, "including helping strip out a proposed $19 billion bank tax and weakening a proposal to stop commercial banks from holding large interests in hedge funds and private equity funds".
Kuwait, another small, relatively stable monarchy with a tradition of gerrymandered parliaments stripped of meaningful authority, is locked in a similar protracted crisis, albeit minus the money worries.
On the down side, it's likely that this finding has already been stripped of any meaningful scientific context by anti-drug campaigners and politicians looking to score easy points.
Stripped of all meaningful power, Poniatowski abdicated in November 1795 and spent the last years of his life in semi-captivity in Saint Petersburg.
He said the bill – which gives Michael Gove, the education secretary, 58 new powers – "stripped councils of any meaningful role".
Where are those voices now and why are they not howling down a bill that strips councils of any meaningful role?
The power of instant releases shouldn't be underestimated: by stripping critics of any meaningful role in an album's release, Beyoncé and others have allowed for a frictionless exchange of celebrity energy between fan and artist.
So many of the most meaningful "identities" of my life were stripped: son, partner, employee (and a few others).
He asserts that by concentrating on the slaveowner, historians have presented a distorted view of plantation life that "strips the slave of any meaningful and distinctive culture, family life, religion, or manhood".
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