The Pakistani ruling bargain is set by the Pakistani Army and says: "We let you civilians pretend to rule, but we will actually call all the key shots, we will consume nearly 25 percent of the state budget and we will justify all of this as necessary for Pakistan to confront its real security challenge: India and its occupation of Kashmir.
The allure of certain hacker delusions, I believe, played a part in keeping the noble aspirations of that year from taking hold, from meaningfully confronting the powers that now pretend to rule the world.
During Saturnalia, a Roman winter celebration, participants would dance, drink and play jokes on each other; slaves pretended to rule their masters, and a mock king, the Lord of Misrule, reigned for a day.
Mr. Stiles sees both sides of Vanderbilt: "His admirers saw him as the ultimate meritocrat, the finest example of the common man rising through hard work and ability.... His critics called him grasping and ruthless, an unelected king who never pretended to rule for his people".
Ecomog, the West African peacekeeping force, moved in to try and establish some kind of order and Taylor was left stranded in his regional capital, Gbarnga, pretending to rule half of the country.
You print manifestoes, write slogans, invite the press and pretend to have the right to rule the country.
Unless there is proper oversight soon, says Ms Knorr, European accounts will in future be full of what she calls "IAS-lite", meaning that they will pretend to obey international rules but in fact will not.Behind all the prosaic initiatives for new rules and watchdogs lies a deeper struggle.
-"They pretend to live by the rules, but they don't adhere to their own rules in private," she said.
Surprisingly, Mr. Hare's play suggests that sometimes the best way to circumvent society's rules is to pretend to accept them.
When D&D was thought up by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax in 1974, the idea was there'd be a loose set of rules for how to pretend to kill people in the fake middle ages, and anything not in the official rules you could just make up.
Wall Street has long been a place of outsized compensation for the few who can master its rules, or at least pretend to.
