Even though the BBC seems more timid and subservient to authority than it has for decades, it's surprising that its journalists did not understand the enormous implications of this story.
"This strengthens the institution that should be subservient to civilian authority," says Imtiaz Gul, an analyst and author of "The Most Dangerous Place", a book about Pakistan's tribal areas.The laconic General Kayani has mostly kept out of domestic politics, but he has left no doubt who is in charge.
Mr. Bremer has spoken about organizing a national conference in July to create an interim Iraqi administration that would be subservient to his authority.
Some people, the theory went, were more inclined to discriminate than others; prejudice was linked to traits such as authoritarianism, associated with a highly subservient attitude towards authority figures and an authoritarian attitude towards lower-status minorities.
It raised to the Emir a threat of a coup d'état in his country and unrest among his tribesmen, who were beginning to see him as subservient to British authority even as Turkey called for a pan-Islamic Jihad.
This ceremony, now celebrating its 800th anniversary, was a part of the overall settlement of 1215 – the year of Magna Carta – when a deal was struck that the City could be granted the independence of having its own mayoral authority as long as that authority was subservient to the crown.
Some directors are very subservient to the local authorities, and they don't have enough power to push things through, as it's the PHS itself that should try to make things happen.
Many of these government-sponsored exhibits go even further, exploring a German national character that was so subservient to and respectful of authority - and so dependent on strongmen to lead it - that it eagerly embraced the anti-Semitism of Hitler and became, in Daniel Goldhagen's memorable phrase, 'Hitler's willing executioners.'.
If he accepted lay authority in church government as exerted through the council, his personal influence averted both the subservient Erastianism (the supremacy of lay authority in ecclesiastical matters) of Lutheranism and exhausting conflict, as at Geneva.
Parliaments and consultative councils are fully subservient to and manipulated by executive authority.
