mandarinate

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The greatest sin in the eyes of the post Troubles mandarinate is 'overreaction' - which could push nationalists into the arms of the dissidents.

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  1. The office or authority of a mandarin.
  2. The whole body of mandarins; mandarins collectively.
  3. The jurisdiction or district of a mandarin. The Emperor and the great tribunals … would call them to account for not having sooner been aware of what was passing in their Mandarinates. Huc, Journey through the Chinese Empire (trans.), I. 68. The idea of organizing a sort of intellectual mandarinate in France was first conceived by Colbert. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 501.

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  • The most obvious example is the bombing atrocities in London on 7 July 2005; no one in the British intelligence mandarinate doubts these were a gift of Blair. —  Antiwar.com Original
  • Yes, the economic mandarinate has doggedly resisted attributing any the economic crisis to decades of perverse trade policies.
  • The most obvious example is the bombing atrocities in London on 7 July 2005; no one in the British intelligence mandarinate doubts these were a gift from Blair. —  New Statesman
  • The greatest sin in the eyes of the post Troubles mandarinate is 'overreaction' - which could push nationalists into the arms of the dissidents. —  San Francisco Sentinel
  • Of course, unlike tabloid fodder, these statements and the credulous coverage they've spawned can do real damage - especially since they eerily repeat the analytical flubs that blinded the national economic mandarinate to the serial asset bubble-blowing that collapsed into this Great Recession.
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