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Topic: Figurehead (political)


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  Thailand - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Thailand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The senate used to be appointed by the monarch (and traditionally drawn from the armed forces and police), but is known also democratically elected for a four-year term.
The monarch retains significant political power, having the authority to dissolve the national assembly and to veto bills, with a two-thirds assembly majority being required for a royal veto to be overturned.
Throughout the 1930s politics were marked by considerable unrest and by increasing nationalism.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Thailand   (2510 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Equilibrium (2002 movie))   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton (Four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce) council, which is led by the reclusive figurehead known as "Father".
Preston, however, immediately regains control of his spiralling emotions, and, using pistols (A firearm that is held and fired with one hand) that he has sneaked in beneath his ceremonial uniform, kills the guards surrounding him.
Realising that the Tetragrammaton Council is faced with a crisis, terrorists (A radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities) detonate bombs in Libria's Prozium factories.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eq/equilibrium_(2002_movie).htm   (2376 words)

  
 roleplaying tips for roleplayers and gamemaster roleplaying advice for all roleplaying systems and rpgs
An extreme case of this happened in Japan, where the Emperor ended up with zero riceland, all of the old Imperial estates having been divided up between the samurai lords and the great temples.
Without the means to raise a samurai army of his own, the Japanese Emperor was reduced to a political figurehead.
When Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun, he made sure that a quarter of all Japan's riceland was under his direct control, enabling him to field larger armies than any other daimyo.
www.roleplayingtips.com /issue189.asp   (3823 words)

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