Other more pernicious saviours are those US religious conservatives who have actively promoted homophobic ideologies across the world and are now pushing such legislation in the US.
But in their hometown, they are ubiquitous, acclaimed by some as saviours, feared and reviled by others.
Saviours such as Etihad are as rare as an on-time departure from Beijing airport.The political cost of turfing out thousands of state employees makes liquidation unpalatable.
Bravo then for the demonstrators, saviours, so it seemed, of the nation's honour.Yet a couple of problems surely niggle.
Angola and Congo have formed a joint company to exploit Congo's oil.But now there are signs that Angola is getting fed up with Mr Kabila's obdurate refusal to co-operate with his saviours.
So too does the hunt for corporate saviours: Mr Levy, for example, is known for having got both Vivendi and Thales out of sticky places.
Even in countries where foreign oil firms still have a part to play, since the oil is hard to get at or the NOC inept, they are seen as supplicants rather than saviours, vying for the honour of extracting local resources.In this section Dates from hell Up or down?
NOT long ago, home-entertainment bosses were fêted in Hollywood as the saviours of the film industry.
People who believe that governments can act as saviours during times of crisis are mistaken.
So they often arrive too late: the most gravely injured often die in minutes.In this section Private data, public rules Scattered saviours ReprintsMr Beer has designed something better.
Some would-be adopters may at times be overhasty but Michele Bond, the senior State Department official dealing with the issue, insists that those concerned act from the best possible motives.In this section Of governments and geeks Saviours or kidnappers?
