Adherents of various religions live in Belarus.

Most are political liberals.

IMF style neo liberals are now trotting out an interpretation that amounts to a belated declaration of victory.

As in every revolution, protagonists of the status quo are kicked out.

Contemporary adherents insist more on personal faith and individual spiritual experience.

The vast center of the Israeli political spectrum nowadays is essentially Herzlian.

Only zealots want ideas to be pushed to their logical extremes.

About 300,000 abortion cases are reported in Thailand where majority of people believes in Buddhism.

Devotees of the New Imperialism would say, Don't to be so literal.

Some ideological hawks in Sharon's government threatened to resign

The Tea Party movement s adherents are angry and, in many respects, justifiably so but most of them are not crazy.

Among engineers and biomedical professionals, however, conservative, even fundamentalist religious leanings are not so unusual.

These thinkers often imprecisely called Federalists refer to the Constitution as a necessary step towards a European federation.

As it happened, the protagonists of the first view were sidelined and the proponents of democratization prevailed.

Its acolytes deplore the grit and relativism of politics and issue futile appeals for moral revivals.

Although Djindjic was not popular, only extreme nationalists and die hard Milosevic supporters are cheering.

They believe that countries everywhere are destined to adopt the same economic system and therefore the same political institutions.

Islamists (such as those in Hamas) gain credibility among Muslim populations because of the social services and community support that they help to organize.

The free marketeers at the Reason Foundation are also fond of having drivers pay per mile.

On the contrary, said the followers of Milton Friedman, it must keep the velocity adjusted rate of growth of the money stock stable.

Besides, the commission s members have impeccable loyalist credentials, which is also true of the cardinals appointed by Francis to look into broader issues of reform.

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers hijacked the Iranian revolution in 1979, democracy became impossible the cleric had become a dictator.

That such bloodshed occurred in today's Gujarat is surprising, for the state is no economic backwater but is, instead, one of India's most dynamic states.

At the same time, Islam is on the move, with its believers leaving rural areas for cities, including the cities of the West.

Those in the Eugenics movement remained hold outs, convinced that the salvation of the human race would be found in limiting the birth rate of those they deemed to be genetically unfit.

All adherents of the religion Islam become terrorists when the culprit is a Muslim, but with the Chapel Hill Shooting, it is just a crime and nothing more ..

But, while Koizumi successfully knocked out the Tanaka faction within the LDP, many of Tanaka s adherents ,led by Ozawa, had re established themselves by colonizing and taking over the DPJ.

And all Europeans not only those on the left were truly shocked and appalled by Katrina s vivid demonstration that there apparently is no bottom for America s poor.

But Obama might soon realize that most of his predecessors started as believers in international cooperation, until events forced them to fall back on a strategy of confrontation. Not even George W. Bush seemed to be committed to any particular doctrine in foreign affairs before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, drove him to unleash his ill conceived global war on terror.

Two rival camps the so called reformers and the hard liners are forming in the Al Saud, the world s largest ruling family, with 22,000 princes and princesses.

Once, the votaries of one kind of new international order or another decried the evils of imperialism (sometimes, but not always, prefixed with a neo '') in justifying demands for a more just dispensation.

But Obama might soon realize that most of his predecessors started as believers in international cooperation, until events forced them to fall back on a strategy of confrontation.

Some see it as a massive failure of the Russian government's policies in Chechnya, while others embrace the conspiracy theory that the authorities staged the entire incident, in order to discredit the Chechen resistance.

Indeed, in a certain sense, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and other neo conservative elder statesmen remain defined by the communist dogmatism they sought to oppose when they were youthful Trotskyists.

Advocates of privatization claim to believe in markets, but they are proposing budget gimmickry that would move those losses off the books, as if markets could be easily fooled.

When the right has turned statist and Keynesian, the free market s true believers are marginalized, and old style anti capitalism seems archaic, one wonders what Socialism in Europe can possibly mean?

Depending on one s definition, Abbas chose between one third and one half of the delegates. The majority of the Central Committee, not surprisingly, are Abbas s close associates and supporters.

Almost every time a woman candidate comes up before the committee, her independence is questioned in a way that is irrelevant, if not insulting. Sadder still, the most stringent adherents to and enforcers of this male paradigm are the rare women that have made it in the male world to serve on the committee.

Sadder still, the most stringent adherents to and enforcers of this male paradigm are the rare women that have made it in the male world to serve on the committee.

Although the country is one of the youngest in the world, with an average age of just 26 years, until recently aging stalwarts incongruously dominated most fields, from politics to the arts and even business and sports.

Soon it emerged that not all its apparent supporters actually supported it when Chancellor Schroeder's proposed reforms caused squeals within his own party, he quickly dropped much of the Third Way program like a hot potato.