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As our country urbanized, the memory of a citizen militia evanesced, and the notion of an armed citizenry as the best protection against tyranny became incomprehensible to some.
Sodomy and guns: tradition as democratic deliberation and ... by Eskridge, William N., Jr. / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Recently established post-colonial political and administrative systems in Africa and Asia were already eroding, and fledgling democracies evanesced throughout the third world into authoritarian regimes, often led by military juntas.
Generational shifts in international governance assistance: the World ... by Nunberg, Barbara / International Journal of Economic Development
Again, in a poem modeled on the Arabic, about the Caliph al-Hakim, I wrote: And sometimes, in the pitch-light of the bazaar God's shadow baited bears or egged men on To braggadocio or fisticuffs, or spied upon Their most secretive gestures, their least Askance innuendoes, their cupped whispering; Till, surrogate, he evanesced on the Muqattan Hills One evening, leaving only slivered veils behind.
Shadow language by Ormsby, Eric / New Criterion
 
 
 
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