Strong and fast, they had good bones and a strong constitution for improving local horse stock.
Post-war Germany bound itself with rules and treaties in order to resist past temptations: a strong constitution to restrain politicians, fiscal rules to banish hyperinflation, the EU to tame nationalism.
It is not a strong interest in the constitution that has fired the public-school teachers.
The military leadership, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, also announced it would name a 100-strong panel by Friday that will draw up a new constitution for the country.
Yet Japan has long liberally interpreted its antiwar constitution to permit a strong homeland defense.
The dynamics changed in 1947, when the state revised its Constitution, creating a strong governor and stripping county bosses of their power over the judiciary.
Mr Blair was no doubt relieved no longer to have to face strong public pressure for a referendum on the constitution, which he might well have lost.
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch said on Tuesday that he was "a strong supporter of the second amendment" - referring to a clause in the US Constitution on the right to bear arms.
That way, they hope, a strong contingent of Sunnis will win seats in the chamber and work to amend the constitution. (A simple majority of deputies can put a constitutional amendment to a referendum.) The hope is that the process can create a coherent Sunni nationalist movement with credible leaders, working in the political mainstream.
Lula's Workers' Party lacks a strong candidate to follow the president, who under the constitution cannot run in 2010 (but might be able to in 2014).
"The arrest of Mtetwa and the four... officials is in itself alarming, but that it comes on the heels of a referendum to endorse a new constitution which, whatever its other limitations, contains strong protection of the rights of those arrested and detained, is more distressing still, " they said in a statement.
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That is the way it was meant to be when the German constitution was written after the war, with the Americans having a strong hand on the pen.
We all know what is needed -- a transition that is timely, new laws and a constitution that uphold the rule of law, political parties and a strong civil society, and, for the first time in Libyan history, free and fair elections.
Either proposition would have astounded James Madison, often described as the guiding spirit behind the Constitution, who rejected state-established religions and, like Alexander Hamilton, proposed a central government so strong that it could veto state laws.
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