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  • He said the "tripartate" system of regulation, set up under Labour, had failed.

    Politics live blog - Wednesday 16 June 2010 2010

  • Doom and gloom is widely predicted by the right and less than 24 hours after the centerist Democratic Party of Japan signed a coalition with the leftish Social Democratic Party and the quasi-populist centerist/conservative People's New Party, headlines in the conservative press were announcing that cracks were already appearing in the tripartate alliance.

    Archive 2009-09-01 West End Bob 2009

  • Doom and gloom is widely predicted by the right and less than 24 hours after the centerist Democratic Party of Japan signed a coalition with the leftish Social Democratic Party and the quasi-populist centerist/conservative People's New Party, headlines in the conservative press were announcing that cracks were already appearing in the tripartate alliance.

    the obligatory Japanese election post the rev. paperboy 2009

  • Further, under our tripartate system of government, i.e.: three independent branches, there is no party discipline under the party leader/chief executive/legislative head, as there is in many parliamentary systems.

    Sarcasm as Motivation - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • They have destroyed our tripartate form of governance by creating a unitary imperial presidency without checks or balances. they have started an aggressor preemtive war by winning public support through means of telling lies and promoting alarmist fear, and conflating everything and everybody they want to destroy or get out of the way with “terrorism”.

    Think Progress » Pajamas Media, Instapundit Facilitate Outing Of Foley Victim 2006

  • I actually think Jim Gee's tripartate model of avatar and identity gives us a few more tools to think with here.

    Names and Narrative 2005

  • The view has been expressed in a Cosatu discussion document which has been submitted to its chief partner in the tripartate alliance, the African National Congress.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • KwaZulu against the ANC-led tripartate alliance "onslaught".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Louis De La Vallee Poussin’s 1906 article you linked considers Trikaya (a tripartate definition of the attributes of Buddhahood) teachings to be a settled doctrine of the so-called Mahayana school, and to some extent traces its evolution from an early speculative inquiry into what he calls “a substitute for the antiquated ‘dependent origination’ (pratityasamutpada).”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Game Show Looks to Convert Atheists”: 2009

  • So of the tripartate system, we have the Bank of England caught in a bind by rising inflation, but unable to raise interest rates for fear of mass delinquency in the mortgage and credit markets and unable to print even more money for fear of destabilising the currency further, the Treasury that isn't being taken seriously by any of the financial markets any more and is basically on its way out anyway without any time for further legislation, and the FSA who is now a toothless tiger whether or not the Conservatives get in and abolish it or not.

    The Guardian World News 2010

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