But after a spate of debacles at big Swiss companies -- sudden collapses, nasty earnings surprises, management blunders and embarrassing leaks about high pay and benefits -- shareholders are growing restive, demanding more information and more accountability.
They must also accommodate Wahhabist clerics who expect rewards for sanctioning absolute monarchy, technocrats who actually manage the country and even, sometimes, those of their subjects who grow restive, and demand a voice beyond presenting personal petitions at royal receptions.In a smaller country this all might be dismissed as quaintly droll.
The action came as restive Senate Democrats demanded more information about the work of the secretive joint committee.
This is not the first time a restive left has demanded resistance and blamed Democrats when little arose.
It began with those restive East Germans, demanding not freedom in the abstract but freedom in particular: the right to travel.
Other nations throughout the Andes, as well as Central America and Mexico, must also contend with restive Indian populations demanding social equality and economic opportunity.
With some of the most polluted air on the planet, killing as many as 4,000 people a day, an increasingly restive population is demanding more government action.
A democratic Palestine, plugged into the global economy, is the last thing they want, for fear their restive populations will demand the same.
Any agreement that satisfied American owners would only increase demands from restive Volkswagen owners in Europe.
Angry protesters have confronted visiting Arab League monitors in Syria's restive city of Homs, demanding international protection.
