a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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He was wise in the ways of corporate governance and rich in the lessons of life.

Six years and three governance systems later, the system's board takes a.

These can even happen in reasonably wealthy states when governance is captured by private parties.

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He was wise in the ways of corporate governance and rich in the lessons of life.

Six years and three governance systems later, the system's board takes a.

These can even happen in reasonably wealthy states when governance is captured by private parties.

Sunni governance has been in the hands of sheikhs who were in league with governments.

Nanotech does, however, pose new challenges to risk governance as well.

So that's all part of the development of governance that achieves legitimacy in the eyes of the people.

Effective governance of pension funds subject to fiduciary duties has been shown to add value to financial performance over time.

Helping such anarchic places to improve their governance a bit has many benefits.

Let's put a better system and governance around and that will be for the benefits of both app developers/ vendors and its users.

Sessions will examine the digital zeitgeist and its impact on future collaboration, development and governance of the network.

The belief that governance by single-party rule can bring about colossal improvement in society is not new.

Improving law and governance in developing countries has never been more challenging, or more needed.

Currently our system of ocean governance is piecemeal.

With his own fund, corporate governance is likely to be an issue as well.

But it makes it clear that corporate governance rules are changing.

Students of corporate governance view them less benignly.

The civilisation is the beginning of the governance to any nation.

He expects the back and forth between shopkeepers and customers to evolve into a marketplace and some basic form of governance.

But he is seeking to bring his knowledge of securities laws and corporate governance into investing in underperforming companies.

The leaders' next meeting is to focus on such governance issues.

But current governance does not allow us to use management tools and policy instruments in a systematic, holistic way.

We have a governance failure, where there is no one responsible for anything.

He was also the author of many books on corporate governance and had served on the board of a number of companies.

It has built an enviable reputation for good governance and political stability.

The ideal governance would be to have different wise, logical and ethical political options presented to the general.

Miles, the influential chairman of the investment bank's governance committee and the board's unofficial lead director.

Some severe methods of governance must also apply to the military.

Your third post only means you don't understand the theory of governance as an exercise in compromise.

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governance (ˈɡʌvənəns)

—n
1.	government, control, or authority
2.	the action, manner, or system of governing

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