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The changes in the global world order are not just a super-imperialism of one super-power, but a global contestation for power between the trans-national empire of capital and what Negri and Hardt call the multitude.

When certain men perceive that they are the foremost persons in society, without contestation and without effort-when they are constantly engaged on large objects, leaving the more minute details to others-and when they live in the enjoyment of wealth which they did not amass and which they do not fear to lose, it may be supposed that they feel a kind of haughty disdain of the petty interests and practical cares of life, and that their thoughts assume a natural greatness, which their language and their manners denote.

There was a certain king of Bohemia, but in whose reign, except his own, I am not able to inform your honour-- I do not desire it of thee, Trim, by any means, cried my uncle Toby. --It was a little before the time, an' please your honour, when giants were beginning to leave off breeding:--but in what year of our Lord that was-- I would not give a halfpenny to know, said my uncle Toby. --Only, an' please your honour, it makes a story look the better in the face-- --'Tis thy own, Trim, so ornament ... ferent nations of the world, down to the coming of Christ, and from thence to the very moment in which the corporal was telling his story--had my uncle Toby subjected this vast empire of time and all its abysses at his feet; but as Modesty scarce touches with a finger what Liberality offers her with both hands open--the corporal contented himself with the very worst year of the whole bunch; which, to prevent your honours of the Majority and Minority from tearing the very flesh off your bones in contestation, 'Whether that year is not always the last cast-year of the last cast-almanack'--I tell you plainly it was; but from a different reason than you wot of-- --It was the year next him--which being the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and twelve, when the Duke of Ormond was playing the devil in Flanders--the corporal took it, and set out with it afresh on his expedition to Bohemia.

However, the contestation is very amusing, and I shall be very sorry if it stops, now it is in so good a train.

I am ashamed almost of having put so much earnestness into a personal matter-and I spoke face to face and quite firmly-so as to pass with my sisters for the 'bravest person in the house' without contestation.

"Yet, she says, it has turned out to be ""the most politicized and highly mobilized form of social contestation in post-1989 China."""

Due to contestation of Shaw's will, the trust charged with developing the new alphabet could only afford to publish one book: a version of Shaw's play 'Androcles and the Lion (play)', in bi-alphabetic edition with both conventional and Shavian spellings.

The Associated Press,'Israeli diplomat postpones meeting after Costa Rica recognizes Palestinian state,' Haaretz 26/02/2008] However, Palestinian sovereignty over the areas claimed as part of the Palestinian state remains limited, and the boundaries of the state remain a point of contestation between Palestinians and Israelis.


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