Those various green jobs czars, efficiency czars, and infrastructure czars soured Congress on unconfirmed administration officials riding roughshod on federal agencies, leading to attempts to rein them in a legislative battle that year.
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White House czars are largely ineffective because they do not control the agency heads who are legally responsible for carrying out the various congressional mandates of the czars.
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The Obama administration had "more czars than the Romanovs," Sen.
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The Last Czars is technically a documentary with lush reenactments.
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All of these early American gun czars were capitalists to the
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Historically, the relevant agency heads don't pay much attention to czars.
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Be smart: Policy-specific "czars" can be a bit of a gimmick.
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The czars regarded a strong United States as a useful counterweight to Britain.
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In their century-long history, "czars" in Washington, D.C. have never had it easy.
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Czar is not an official term, and some czars are more important than others.
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Their sense of humor is ostensibly not shared by China's increasingly sophisticated internet czars.
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I'm of Russian Jewish descent and grew up on tales of czars and Cossacks.
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They are trying to establish an unbroken link between the czars and Stalin's Russia.
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The conditions under which the czars forced Russians to live gave rise to Bolshevism.
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The letter was signed by more than 300 health professionals, including three former US drug czars.
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In conclusion, let me say that I do personally know a little about White House czars.
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He is author of the books The President's Czars (with Mitchel A. Sollenberger) and Executive Privilege.
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So it was under the czars, who censored books and newspapers; so it was under Lenin.
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Mr. Putin is not an ally of Turkey any more than the Soviets or the czars.
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"It shows, it seems, just how far contemporary Russia is from the epoch" of the czars.
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Much like King Henry VIII and the czars, Mr. Trump visibly enjoys supplication by the sycophants.
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Actor Charlie Cox was there, flanked by Netflix's social media czars, firing tweets from his character's account.
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Putin cannot be trustedPutin's behavior resembles that of the czars more than that of his Soviet predecessors.
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Running into a possible descendant of the czars in a roadside diner in the middle of Russia.
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Inside Apple, the trio of experts known among employees as the privacy czars are both admired and feared.
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But this worldview follows the time-honored expansionist ambitions of Russian autocracy under czars and Communist leaders alike.
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The Forbes analysis found that unlike Obama, Trump has not hired "czars," or people who lead special initiatives.
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Here's the Russian eagle, which has two heads and derives from the coat of arms of the Russian czars.
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For the first time since 1912, when the Czars ruled in St. Petersburg, Russians were competing in the Olympics.
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Administrations past have had many, many drug czars, typically referring to the head of the Office of National Drug Policy.
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And with Netflix's new series The Last Czars, out on July 3, we got that lust period piece at last.
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The spending evoked an era when 22017th-century Russian czars and industrialists were among the world's most extravagant arts patrons.
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In a poem on the final page, "Goodbye, Our Red Flag," he wrote: I didn't take the czars' Winter Palace.
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For hundreds of years, Jews living in Russia were persecuted under various czars, and their livelihoods and residences were limited.
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That kind of respect is an attribute Russians have longed to see for their leader since the days of the czars.
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This essence is perhaps no better captured than in the music of self-anointed czars of mountain metal, Karma to Burn.
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" A city attorney in New Mexico called items that could be seized "little goodies" and bragged that public officials "could be czars.
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The crown jewel of the Hermitage is the Winter Palace, the official residence of Russian czars up until the revolution of 1917.
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" Sollenberger is associate provost at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and co-author of "The President's Czars: Undermining Congress and the Constitution.
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Pharaohs, caliphs, czars and maharajahs all vividly leapt to mind when I saw this clue; I even thought of kleptocrats and kakists.
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So a central element of Russia's statecraft since the days of the czars has been deceiving and weakening its enemies from within.
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This three-legged stool was the main strategy promoted by the Clinton administration under the leadership of Drug Czars Lee Brown and Gen.
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Historically, Russia's rulers, whether czars or commissars, reached for autocracy at the center to control the extraordinary diversity of peoples, cultures and religions.
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" He later described Mr. Putin as "paranoid" and said "he is less of a throwback to the Communist era, than to the czars.
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For all we know, there could be czars walking out amongst us right now, who after a catastrophic attack, will help nationalize industries.
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Those eyes that had seen the world during the time of the czars and seen the world for a hundred years after that.
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Although communications czars under the Obama administration were less averse to regulation, even they did not do enough to stop the robocall scourge.
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Mr. Upton drags the story out of the twilight of the czars and into the post-Communist morning after of the mid-1990s.
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Cossacks crushed protests against the czars in the early 20th century, but led several earlier rebellions when they felt their autonomy was under threat.
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Once, smoked sturgeon was the food of czars more than shtetl Jews, from whom so many of us are descended, including the Greengrass family.
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States like Washington and California have even created a government positions, often referred to as "weed czars," to oversee the implementation of new weed legislation.
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As much as Russians suffered under the czars and the commissars, this is still a people who is proud to have built a massive empire.
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Like that city (Russia's "window on the West"), it reflected the way the czars had looked to the French court of Versailles for stylistic inspiration.
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Siberia was then, like the American West, "unknown" territory that was destined, in the view of the czars, to be absorbed into an expanding empire.
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Editor-in-chief John Micklethwait announced the appointments of several news-coverage "czars" in a memo, and they show where the company sees the biggest opportunity.
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Created by the Czars' secret services in the 19th century, the group is now run by Sergei Stepashin, a former chief Russian spy and government minister.
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"Knowing how the story of the czars turns out, many historians have suggested that the Russian colossus must always have had feet of clay," he writes.
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The ceremony itself unfolded in a Kremlin hall used to crown three czars — Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II — as well as previous presidential inaugurations.
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Under Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin has erected new museums glorifying the Soviet past and staged elaborate military parades that hearken back to the days of the czars.
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Under the czars, the great-grandfather, though he fought in a rebellion in his youth, had taught a pacifist, Sufi Islamic philosophy of acquiescence to government authority.
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A vast trove of imagery, it included everything from publicity snapshots of Russian czars in rowboats to promotional pieces that Bauhaus artists designed to advertise a 18903 exhibition.
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The Presidential Suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence is decked in the mill's output, as are the walls of the czars' throne room at the Kremlin.
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This sprawling, beautiful country has known power but has never known real prosperity — even the czars built châteaus in the French style from wood painted to look like marble.
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To the Russian czars as well as American anti-Semites like Henry Ford and Joseph McCarthy, the Jews were responsible for bringing communism in order to destroy their nations.
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And this is the flip side of the myth of Putin leadership that in some quarters of Europe and even the United States, other would-be czars seek to emulate.
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His mother was from a family of Polish freedom fighters who had been exiled to Russia under the czars and sent to labor camps known as the Gulag under Stalin.
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By mixing and matching forms, docudramas like "The Last Czars" risk a certain awkwardness, but if it works, having real-life experts on hand will bring legitimacy to the action.
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More than 300 health-care professionals and three former U.S. drug czars who advised past presidents on national drug policy called on the CDC to address the misapplication of the guideline.
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Previous drug czars' efforts were not so much listening tours, but hearing tours—tours where officials would hear the public's words and not listen to the serious information they were being told.
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This czar — working with a team of deputy czars from both parties — can identify packages of rules and regulations for elimination and submit them to Congress for an up or down vote.
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In doing so, Turkey is turning away from potential partners in the West that still — at least for now — value democracy and human rights, and toward another world of autocrats, pseudo-monarchs and aspiring czars.
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"Consequently, patients have endured not only unnecessary suffering, but some have turned to suicide or illicit substance use," more than 300 medical experts, including three former White House drug czars, wrote in a letter this month.
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One of my favorite sections is that of the ceramics, which are real pieces of art, and the section of photographs through which we relive the history of Russia from the czars to the October Revolution.
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Or maybe it is an effort to compensate for Kazakhstan's years of obscurity, when the czars of Imperial Russia, and then the premiers of the Soviet Union, all but sealed this place off from the world.
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In fact, the work of facilitating the broad "paradigm shift" Newkirk wants to see in lieu of the diversity industry's empty "pledges, slogans, or well-compensated czars" is increasingly a central part of that very industry.
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The protected part of the Bialowieza woodland, which covers about 550 square miles and extends into neighboring Belarus, was long the hunting ground for European nobility and royalty, including Lithuanian dukes, Polish kings and Russian czars.
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Never mind that the upheavals of 1917 transformed the country and the world, abruptly ending the long rule of the czars, ushering in the Communist era and spawning an ideological confrontation with the West that still resonates.
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Indeed, any collection of Apple customer data requires sign-off from a committee of three "privacy czars" and a top executive, according to four former employees who worked on a variety of products that went through privacy vetting.
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"I've known and worked with our drug czars for more than 85033 years and this agency is critical to our efforts to combat drug abuse in general, and this opioid epidemic, in particular," Portman said in a statement.
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It is known for its historical sites and museums, such as Catherine's Palace, an 240th-century residence where the Russian czars spent their summers, and the State Hermitage Museum, home to more than three million objects of art.
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That's the approach the company is taking in "The Last Czars," a six-episode series about the Romanovs, the family that ruled Russia for over 300 years before the Bolsheviks removed them from power in the early 20th century.
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Ryan Murphy, now a master of mixing the mordantly funny with the starkly serious, executive produces and occasionaly directs from legal journalist, author and Simpson courtroom journalist Jeffrey Toobin's detailed book, as developed by biopic czars Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
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For Laurence Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School, and Richard Painter and Norm Eisen, ethics czars for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the impeachment exception in the constitution "would make no sense if the president could pardon himself".
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The volleyball team accomplished something even Beijing's propaganda czars and Internet censors had found elusive in the past few weeks: Replacing the disappointing and bitter tone on social media over China's Olympic performance in Rio with a united and enthusiastic voice.
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The most likely candidate is Instagram's VP of Product Adam Mosseri, a longtime Facebook product executive who's close with Facebook's two product czars: Zuckerberg and Chris Cox, who took over all of Facebook's apps in a big company restructuring this summer.
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In 1998, in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II; his wife, Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna; daughters Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia; and the four retainers killed with them were buried together in St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, where all the czars since Peter the Great lie.
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During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks were staunch prohibitionists when it came to alcohol, labeling it a capitalist vice, but once they took power, they returned to the old ways of the Russian czars and turned to vodka revenue to fill state coffers.
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Rosenbach was once the chief of staff to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and was the Pentagon's cyber czar — "which sounds sexy until you find that almost all czars were assasinated" — and created some fictional events (that mirrored real-life ones he faced himself).
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As the storm laid siege, the intelligence available to emergency managers — a broad category including local firefighters, state officials overseeing road and bridge closures, and federal disaster relief czars — was full of holes, making the hurricane's assault impossible to analyze holistically in real time.
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The letter writers form an uneasy alliance spanning differing positions on opioids — professors of addiction medicine as well as pain specialists, some patient representatives who have taken money from the pharmaceutical industry, and the former drug czars, from the Obama, Clinton and Nixon administrations.
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In a letter to be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 300 medical experts, including three former White House drug czars, say that federal guidelines aimed at curbing addiction are harming pain patients who find relief only through high doses of opioids.
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While 7 billion people inhabit the earth, only a small, chosen few have risen to the ranks of oligarch, the true rulers of mighty Russia, with the opportunity to leave their mark on their nation as did the nomenklatura before them and the court of the Czars before them.
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Now draped in Ukrainian flags, the monument nonetheless stands as a powerful reminder of Russia's looming presence in a country that has struggled to create a functioning independent state on the fragile foundations left by more than 70 years of communism and centuries of subjugation by Russian czars.
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MOSCOW — Vladimir V. Putin took the oath of office on Monday for a fourth term as Russia's president, in a ceremony staged in a gilded Kremlin hall once used to crown czars and replete with pageantry, highlighting his vast accumulation of authority after nearly two decades in power.
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January has brought several satisfying novels, including three noteworthy debuts by women writers, as well as some meaty nonfiction, including a book about American opposition to the country's entry into the First World War; a new look at the Holocaust; and a history of Siberian exile under the czars.
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That was especially so in the Obama years, when Fox News "gave life to stories that became memes on the right — czars in the White House; the I.R.S. story; Benghazi — that helped set the agenda for Republicans in Congress," as the Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote to me in an email.
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Bloomberg also appointed czars for the following other areas:Brexit, appointing Edward Evans to coordinate Brexit coveragesocial media, naming Sarah Kopit to a new role overseeing how the newsroom uses social media to promote breaking newscybersecurity, naming Mike Riley, whose reporting last year on a China hack was contested by Apple, to oversee cybersecurity.
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In fact, a group of more than a dozen former administration officials, presidential ethics czars and scholars who have served at the highest levels of government in both Democratic and Republican administrations recently joined together to urge Congress to support our efforts to protect Mueller and any future special counsels from political interference.
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The sun will not set in this former imperial capital until 10:25, and before it drops you can wander a city suffused with radiant light and take in a density of landmarks whose beauty and historical significance rival those of Paris: The czars' Winter Palace, now part of the vast Hermitage Museum.
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It is a measure of how far Vetements, which Mr. Gvasalia and his co-founders started in 2014, has come in two years, and how fast, that fashion and apparel companies, from the luxurious to the mass market, are now lining up to work with him, and that the industry czars are bending backward to accommodate him.
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But in a letter to be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, more than 20183 medical experts, including three former White House drug czars, contend that the guidelines are harming one group of vulnerable patients: those with severe chronic pain, who may have been taking high doses of opioids for years without becoming addicted.
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A parallel effort by a group of over 300 medical professionals, co-led by Dr. Kertesz and signed on to by three former United States drug czars, calls on the C.D.C. to make a "bold clarification" by stating that its guidelines do not require that chronic pain patients who are dependent on opioids have their dosages tapered.
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As a boy, he witnessed the demise of the 19th century, which took place on the battlefields of World War I. For a while he lived in Wilno — then part of Poland, now Lithuania's capital, Vilnius — and increasingly became aware of what was happening nearby, just beyond Poland's eastern border, where the empire of the czars morphed bloodily into the Soviet Union.
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His description of Lyndon Johnson as a champion of the disadvantaged is standard fare; more intriguing is his appraisal of Johnson's impact on the state's public image in the 1960s, as America's culture czars, especially in Hollywood, consciously soured on Texas following the Kennedy assassination in Dallas and Johnson's escalation in Vietnam, a war he inherited but soon came to define.
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Turgenev's book did much to stoke the fast-growing criticism of serfdom, which was abolished nine years later, in 1861, by the progressive Czar Alexander II. He was assassinated 20 years later, his death witnessed by his son and grandson, who would become the next two czars, Alexander III and Nicholas II. It is not unreasonable to imagine that his assassination was instrumental in turning both of them into reactionary, anti-liberal autocrats, so opposed to any sort of reform and so intent on gagging all opposition that eventually revolution became inevitable.
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