And, most remarkably, the judiciary had come to be the upholders of human rights against government.
To the upholders of this version of events, there is one big police force in which the private sector is gradually assuming the dominant role.
The two parties governing Poland have learned a lot about free markets and democracy since their earlier incarnations as upholders of the communist order.
In my mind, it is always associated with the fiercest historical upholders of apartheid: it seems either very ironic or very appropriate that the leaders of the new majority-rule South Africa also hold court here.I decide to get in touch with a local political analyst I met a couple of years ago in the Horn of Africa.
CDU and CSU leaders began to ask if they could stand as upholders of personal responsibility and intellectual-property rights with Mr zu Guttenberg in his post.
But his analysis is echoed by a senior Conservative politician, who recalls when judges were seen as "lions under the throne": upholders of the system.
Mr Fukasaku sought more contemporary stories and became interested in the yakuza, gangsters who regarded themselves as upholders of traditional Japanese virtues as they pursued their careers of graft, blackmail and vice.
Now, he says, judges are seen as "upholders of the rule of law", curbing an over-mighty state.Is today's inquiry mania sustainable?
The Moscow Patriarchate, meanwhile, has repeatedly suggested that Orthodox and Catholics should make common cause as social conservatives and upholders of Europe's Christian heritage.But inevitably, the crisis in Ukraine is casting a long shadow.
As a result, many Middle Easterners see the current stand-off not as the upholders of international law and order challenging a rogue state, but as the great powers ganging up to crush an upstart rival.
All these titles implied that the Būyids were the upholders of the Muslim ʿAbbāsid dawlah, or state.
