And global capital is agnostic it has no loyalties.

Second, reporting lines follow personal and political loyalties rather than constitutional arrangements.

3.3 Against her parents' will, Guro found herself in a situation where a conflict of loyalties arose between school and home.

Similarly, it is apparent that there is very little, if any, accountability other than that based on informal and extra constitutional loyalties.

The novelty of their status, lingering questions about their legitimacy and conflicting political loyalties have led to friction with many of the municipalities.

I know that I must face up to all my old loyalties, all my old fears and promises, and see them in their true perspective.

I know that I must face up to all my old loyalties, all my old fears and promises, and see them in their true perspective.

He would tell you, if I may speak in his place not to crucify yourself on a shadow such as old resentment or impossible loyalties.

Turf conflicts, nationalistic feelings and cultural differences that lead to difficult communications result in weaker loyalties among those fighting transnational crime than among those committing it.

The authorities' evaluation of whether there are grounds for an application for exemption imposes on the children a conflict of loyalties between the school and the parents.

Here, the structures and the accompanying standardization work to ensure that admission to public employment is determined by skills and knowledge, rather than personal or partisan loyalties.

Despite the high calibre of their work and the benefits they could provide to the Organization, their loyalties would logically lie with those responsible for their remuneration.

In nations apparently united, where the process of globalized economic growth without distribution is quot demolishing quot long standing loyalties, the quot integration mechanisms quot laboriously built up are being torn apart.

About 18,000 civil servants, military leaders and academics have been arrested or suspended from their positions in Turkey, the government believing their loyalties lie with U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it accuses of masterminding the attempt to overthrow the government.

As globalization proceeds, with the help of ever faster communications, faster travel, and more powerful multinational corporations, a new, cosmopolitan social class seems to be emerging. These citizens of the world are developing loyalties to each other that cross national boundaries.

The point is that eventually, despite strong regional loyalties and various cultural and religious differences, the majority can identify as being simply Pakistani even though they may harbor radical differences about what this might mean. The real idea of Pakistan, ultimately, must be multiplicity.

In Europe alone, there at least 40 would be Scotlands seeking separation of some kind from the countries in which they now find themselves. Other loyalties are based on other kindred identities not just religious or ethnic, but based on shared commercial, political, or other interests.

Instead, all the major parties are represented in the government, and are consequently obliged to hammer out compromises. Members of the federal government are driven by regional loyalties at some times, and by ideological commitments at other times they all need to be negotiated when making decisions.

In short, our allegiances, particularly in the West, have rarely seemed more divided than they do now. Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate economist, has argued that we can learn to live with these multiple identities and even thrive with the diversity of citizenship and loyalties that they allow us.

For starters, the government must stop coddling the militias, and focus on building the national army something that the NTC neglected. To be sure, persuading the militias to transfer their loyalties to the state will not be easy, especially given the fighters strong, often ideological connections to their individual units.

Approximately one third of the new parliament will comprise non party list candidates. Established networks based on family, local loyalties, and tribal affiliations will be key determinants in voting. 160 These circumstances may favor non party list candidates associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the former NDP, particularly in rural Egypt.

Approximately one third of the new parliament will comprise non party list candidates. Established networks based on family, local loyalties, and tribal affiliations will be key determinants in voting. These circumstances may favor non party list candidates associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the former NDP, particularly in rural Egypt.

The growth in both the quantity and seriousness of economic and financial crime has been encouraged, on the one hand, by the ongoing process of globalization and the resulting integration of the world's financial markets coupled with the weakening of social controls and loyalties and, on the other, by growth in technological progress.

Janissaries were not allowed to marry or to own property, which prevented them from developing loyalties outside of the imperial court. But, after these restrictions were removed in the sixteenth century, and up until their extermination in the nineteenth century, the Janissaries became extremely powerful in Istanbul (and even established their own dynasty in Egypt).

Sarkozy has also fully integrated into France s approach to Europe a reckoning with the new balance of power within the European Union following the accession of Eastern European states. Unlike Chirac, he understands that it is counterproductive and unrealistic to ask countries like Bulgaria or Romania to choose between their European or Atlantic loyalties.

Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and fifth columns have been strong. One need only recall the recent case of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who was unjustly accused of spying, to be reminded of how yin and yang are America s feelings about minority members in sensitive positions.

Jawaharlal Nehru was hugely popular because he was known to cherish free speech, take seriously the views of his critics, and defend their right to disagree with him. His role in establishing enduring democracy in India, despite the tensions of caste, ethnicity, religion, and regional loyalties, made him one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.

At the moment, who will succeed Putin is not important what counts is the process that will result in the choice of Russia s third president. The real historical significance of the choice that Russia will face in 2008 will be determined not by the next president s personal qualities, but by his loyalties that is, to whom he owes his job.

Of course, the people are never truly one fickle in their loyalties and subject to demagoguery, they often unite in opposition but fracture once in command. Nonetheless, the willingness of large numbers of people to stand up (or sit in) for their right to be heard, despite the imminent possibility of violent repression, announces to their fellow citizens and the world that something has gone very wrong.

But the Americans want a surge, and the US general commanding NATO forces in the country said last month that he needed three more brigades, some 15,000 troops in all, and Gates has asked the Europeans either to send or pay for them. The Americans do recognize the importance of courting those Taliban leaders they believe to be motivated by tribal loyalties rather than religious ideology, but they oppose the latest Afghan policy of negotiating directly and officially with the Taliban.