Sentence examples for rule of man from inspiring English sources
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The absence of rule of law in which one person, or a group of persons, rules arbitrarily.
Censorship "has obvious characteristic of 'the rule of man' rather than the rule of law," Mr. Shi said.
The rule of law is being replaced by what Mr Kapur dubs the rule of man: politicians and central bankers are changing the system on the hoof.
They believe that democracy, which entails the rule of man by man, is a negation of Islam's insistence on man's obedience to God alone.
Though some strands of the faith, such as Salafism, reject the "rule of man", and therefore democracy, as incompatible with the "rule of God", quite a few non-Arab Muslim states, such as Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia, are fairly democratic.
Curiously, the way in which Ai Weiwei's freedom was restored — arbitrarily, unannounced, with no formal proceedings — embodies the very force that he has criticized for nearly a decade: the rule of man over the rule of law.
David Cunningham, Asia Pacific president for Federal Express, fumes: "Why should we fund a Chinese postal service any more than a Chinese steel plant?"A law unto itselfThe second problem for foreigners is a direct consequence of the bureaucratic system of government: China is subject to the "rule of man" rather than the "rule of law".
Since then, the code has become a political football, bouncing back and forth between the rule-of-man and rule-of-law factions.In the code's first year, there were only 98 cases in the whole of China, even though, on proper accounting, virtually the entire state-owned sector was insolvent.
In a searing memo, which foresaw many of the weaknesses which led to her downfall nearly a decade later, Sir John Hoskyns warned Thatcher that she was breaking every rule of man-management and had created an "unhappy ship" which threatened her position.
In Thailand's slow-motion revolution from the rule of men to the rule of law, the test ahead could not be more stark.
Think of all those who suffer from the principle that parenting should be the sole exception to the rule of men and women being equal before the law.
Mr. Ryan said as much in Wednesday's hearing, in which he declared that our currency "should be guided by the rule of law, not the rule of men".
