Landowners work to strengthen development restrictions while politicians cash in on their ability, through selective development approval, to grant fortunate supplicants a windfall.
Perhaps they should have been less trusting of a government that denied rights to blacks, withheld welfare payments from eligible supplicants, and tested radioactive fall-out on unwitting citizens.In sum, the past for which Americans pine was far from perfect, and probably not even preferable to the America of today.
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?
Even if the Court narrows the scope of honest-services fraud when it issues its ruling, probably next year, that may only lead to reduced sentences or perhaps retrials for the two supplicants.
And even then, sometimes, enough cash to pay off the appropriate official.Wherever you find politicians in Pakistan and India, you will find swarms of supplicants.
She has embarked on a rural tour and broken with tradition by visiting potential allies to ask them to join a coalition, instead of waiting for supplicants.
In the pre-dawn chill, and in the midday heat, hundreds of mainly poor supplicants line up to deliver their petitions.
Supplicants also jostled to stand at his feet, wheedling for contracts, but that was how his business was done.He liked to have the curious brought to him: at one party a British academic, who studies underworld types, was presented for a conversation.
An hour, two, three; all of us move towards our fates at the same stately pace.This negation of its supplicants' time, the sublimation of their schedules to its own, is just one of the many small ways in which the bureaucracy chips away at their autonomy.
Supplicants who kiss the gold-braided gown are mere courtiers.
It is the place where Nigerian Big Men schmooze, and where supplicants come to beg favours from the oil-rich federal government.
