What does extragovernmental mean?
Extragovernmental means Existing apart from or beyond the government..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Existing apart from or beyond the government..
The Bourne series has two great legacies, and one of them — we'll get to the other in a bit — is the way its films tried to engage with the politics of their era, the way they allowed for lots of meaty complications that wrestled with the extragovernmental actions of George W. Bush's national security state.
Villanelle's kills are being ordered by the sort of shady extragovernmental organisation that might have seemed fanciful in a time before we'd heard of polonium. Yet "the 12", as they are known, are not purely fictional.
It is true that C.B.P. is not an extragovernmental militia, and so might not fit precisely into Snyder's "On Tyranny" schema. But when I spoke to Snyder on Monday, he suggested the distinction isn't that significant.
The private Texas town being built by Elon Musk to house his SpaceX, Tesla, and Boring Company employees is just the latest iteration of the Silicon Valley libertarian fantasy in which the rich take refuge in private compounds in New Zealand, or move their wealth and businesses into extragovernmental jurisdictions and "special economic zones".
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Extragovernmental means Existing apart from or beyond the government..
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The Bourne series has two great legacies, and one of them — we'll get to the other in a bit — is the way its films tried to engage with the politics of their era, the way they allowed for lots of meaty complications that wrestled with the extragovernmental actions of George W. Bush's national security state.
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