The long-standing absence of authority in the country led to Somali pirates becoming a major threat to international shipping in the area, and prompted Nato to take the lead in an anti-piracy operation.
The keen fear among Israeli and American intelligence officials is that both the prisoner exchange and the critique of Israel's Gaza conduct will increase the power of Hamas, thereby reducing the standing of the Palestinian Authority, run by President Mahmoud Abbas, and decreasing the chances for peace talks.
Legal advisers to the court have said it could disqualify Mr. Shafik on technical grounds involving the standing of the election authorities, and experts said his disqualification would almost certainly require a revote.
We consider the content of what's being exposed only when doing so undermines the standing or authority of our chosen foes.
Or was it, rather, a parable about the cost of standing up to authority, of being a whistle-blower like the third servant, who calls his master a "hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown?" Was it about the courage to face down totalitarianism and its rich apparatchiks?
Britain is the EU's most Eurosceptic country but in Blair, Britain has someone of standing and authority with an ability to communicate difficult messages in simple terms and do it in two languages.
"It's an insult for anybody of authority or standing to sign off on him with their approval and say, 'Oh, he's forgiven,'" Cumberbatch explained.
In the case of Marco Carola, you've got an absolute boss standing tall on 25 years of authority.
When we are standing up against the voice of authority in the name of the voiceless, we find ourselves in the company of the many counter-voices within the Bible who are doing the same.
As Darwall puts it, dignity is "the second-personal standing of an equal: the authority to make claims and demands on one another as free and rational agents" and to hold each other accountable for complying with these commands (Darwall 2004, 43, 44).
