As in the past, the 2014 European elections were a second-order event, after national elections, or even a third-order affair, after local elections.The scale of the anti-European vote had been widely expected and the EU already faced the possibility but not the certainty that Britain would pull out.
But the government, fearing violence, ordered the affair canceled.
You need to give people time to order their affairs.
"We picked our way down for two hours through this maze of poles that sometimes we couldn't see for minutes on end, but it seemed to bring some sort of calmness and order to affairs.
In judgment, Lord Tomlin backed his fellow peer: "Every man is entitled to order his affairs so that the tax attaching under the appropriate acts is less than it otherwise would be".
The heavenly bodies can order human affairs either by virtue of their difference of position in the heavens, or from the difference of the bodies among themselves.
She told me the doctors had closed the book on her, she'd ordered her affairs, the good people from hospice were in attendance.
So politics was more than regulating or ordering the affairs of the community; it was also a "school" for ordering the lives internal and external of the citizens.
There will always be a party that believes the coercive mechanisms of the state are the appropriate means for ordering societal affairs.
It seems to me that we are not ordering our affairs as efficiently as we should.
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