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The Georgia State Election board also approved the hand-count rule over the advice of the attorney general's office, which acts as its legal advisor, opening itself up to such a legal challenge.

Sources suggest that the Treasury is running its rule over not just this issue but across the whole workers’ rights agenda.

Wealthy special interests who want to roll back these rights recognize that they cannot advance their unpopular agenda through the democratic process—so they seek to alter the rules of democracy in order to exert rule over the majority without majority support.

He added that the speed of events reflected frustration among Bangladeshi youth over the country’s "one-party rule" over the last 15 years.

To maintain its authoritarian rule over millions of people, the Roman Empire relied on its military might and the fear inspired by its brutal army.