She's a benevolent witch.

Minorities do well in empires, especially benevolent empires.

In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever merciful.

Life Member of the Montréal Lawyers apos Benevolent Association.

Unfortunately, many of the most benevolent provisions have since been discarded.

A benevolent God keeps the immigrant from being stopped by the police.

France s benevolent paternalism penalizes the young beyond the labor market as well.

Utterly different from Tom was his friend John, who was kind and benevolent.

Prometheus was a benevolent monarch who scattered the fruits of progress among his people.

Confucianism was essentially a philosophical justification of government by benevolent bureaucracy under a virtuous ruler.

While these pseudo religions collapsed, a benevolent ideology of social democracy dominated much of Europe.

He was a benevolent old man who volunteered to mow his neighbors' lawns for free.

The attempt to impose a benevolent creditors dictatorship is now being met by a debtors revolt.

Once again, all the formulas for Western type democracy depend on the will of an enlightened and benevolent czar.

The same result could be achieved, with less cost to Germany, if Germany chose to behave as a benevolent hegemon.

Since the expropriation of Yukos Oil Company in 2004, Putin s policy had been highly benevolent to large state owned firms.

Or should it be controlled by a benevolent state that doles out life enhancing genes to all its newly conceived children?

In the second half of the twentieth century, Europe had the chance to build a much more benevolent form of regionalism.

Let us not go astray, O Lord, having guided us already. Bestow on us Your blessings for You are the benevolent.

Keynesian economics, in turn, abstracted from the problem of official incompetence and corruption by assuming that governments were run by omniscient, benevolent experts.

In his view, the Roman Empire was to be governed as a divine monarchy with himself as the benevolent despot at its head.

Dialogue, as benevolent as it may be, can t resolve questions related to people s freedom of movement, or to the sharing of territory or natural resources.

Nor are they set to become a benevolent, altruistic power, ready to use their new strength and reputation to improve the stability of the international system.

The US had a unique opportunity at the end of the Cold War to use its benevolent and enlightened superiority to establish a better international order.

Under the gaze of the benevolent American journalist, the Iranian subjects are caricatures, described in simple terms and invested with naïve ideas about politics and the world.

In fact, Europe s much vaunted social model is more a dream than a reality, the dream of a cozy world in which a benevolent state looks after us.

The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.

The emperor was the supreme paterfamilias, his benevolent rule reciprocated by the obedience of his ministers and subjects, while family members were fixed in their appropriate hierarchical relationships.

This policy, which Israelis view to be benevolent, supposes that economic integration of Arabs and Jews is possible without modifying the Zionist concept of Israel as a Jewish state.

Much more importantly, however and perhaps to the surprise of many benevolent international observers the Mexican left is nowhere near transforming itself into a modern, reformist, social democratic party.

In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL), meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary.

And that's not exactly what I said , but the point is my role in the community within the free software world there's been a longstanding tradition of the benevolent dictator model.

According to a 2001 Saudi law, anything contravening a fundamental principle or legislation, or infringing the sanctity of Islam and its benevolent Shari ah, or breaching public decency is punishable by law.

Minorities do well in empires, especially benevolent empires. Like the Catalans or the Scots, the Kurds in Turkey are in favor of EU membership, because it offers a refuge from their own country s majority.

Either way, the premise that the US should lead forcefully rests on the idea that without a benevolent hegemonic power to police the world, chaos will ensue and more malevolent forces will take over.

France s benevolent paternalism penalizes the young beyond the labor market as well. On paper, wealth redistribution through high taxes and state transfers, reflecting Republican ideals of equality and social cohesion ( fraternité ), has brought good results.

Thailand s national mythology is that it is a happy Buddhist country, a land of smiles bound together by compassion and harmony under the benevolent grace and blessings of the Palace and the generosity of big business.

As much as we all value the rise of new powers like China and India, it remains to be seen whether these countries will become as benevolent a power as America, however flawed, has been over the past half century.

The same is true in The Netherlands, which has been governed for decades by the same middle of the road parties, led by benevolent but rather paternalistic figures, whose views about multiculturalism, tolerance, and Europe, were, until recently, rarely challenged.

At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world...

The concept of a dialogue between cultures is sometimes strained, or seems only a pious hope, because we ask it to do the impossible solve inflamed political conflicts. Dialogue, as benevolent as it may be, can t resolve questions related to people s freedom of movement, or to the sharing of territory or natural resources.