All of a sudden, some form of federalism – just like those uppity ex-colonials have – starts to look an attractive solution for Britain.
I guarantee there would have been a rightwing press assault that involved excessive use of the word "uppity".
It did not, for instance, show Hasan Yousefi-Eshkevari, a journalist and moderate cleric, shouting down the protesters disrupting his speech, or Jamileh Kadivar, the only parliamentary deputy among the accused, storming out of the conference hall in disgust.The conference, it seems, was useful as an excuse to lay low uppity reformists.
"In the eyes of the liberal media", said Mr Bozell, "Herman Cain is just another uppity black American who has had the audacity to leave the liberal plantation.
WHEN America gets distracted, Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictatorial president, gets uppity.
On June 19th, the court delivered a pair of decisions which caused rejoicing and gnashing of teeth to both liberals and conservatives in equal measure.A unanimous court slapped down uppity Massachusetts, a stronghold of liberal Democrats, when it found that the state government's boycott of companies which did business with Myanmar was unconstitutional.
Peasants started eating pork; uppity nobles chewed on birds and beef instead.Mr Essig's main point is that the better people treat pigs, the more they like them.
The black view often seemed to be that race relations were fine, so long as blacks stayed in their place and did not get "uppity".
That has buoyed hopes that his administration, which faced down violent protests in April, can outlast its short-lived predecessors.Crucial to its survival will be its ability to pump money into a feeble economy while keeping uppity coalition parties in check.
The OECD this week predicted that unemployment (12.5% in September), and debt as a proportion of GDP (133%) would both continue to rise, even as the economy creeps out of recession next year.In this section Those uppity Social Democrats A golden opportunity The spirit is willing Huda-Par's emergence A geopolitical hostage New faces, same policies?
Eventually, Mr Tusk went for the kill.In this section Those uppity Social Democrats A golden opportunity The spirit is willing Huda-Par's emergence A geopolitical hostage New faces, same policies?
