Yet in the longer term they are bound to become a force for political liberalisation.

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On the broader question, the legal authorities that exist to use lethal force are bound by and constrained by the law and the Constitution.

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Even if officials around America do promulgate fierce regulations, those will take some time to come into force, and are bound to be the subject of endless lawsuits.

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And, say human-rights groups, its men many of them recycled from the old force are poorly trained and bound by only the vaguest of laws on how they should function, so that ad hoc internal rules apply instead.

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As the state becomes increasingly muscle bound with its technological capabilities to spy and employ violence against its citizens to force them to comply with its illegitimate dictates, that same technological capacity might soon be turned back on the state jujitsu style as that technology becomes available to individuals.

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Blackburn had barely been in the game as an attacking force, but it took a superb block from Jagielka to stop a goal-bound shot from Santa Cruz.

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So while a mismanaged emerging economy was bound to hit trouble in international capital markets, even a well managed but small economy might be overpowered by the force of vast international capital flows.

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