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Western analysts worried that military rule would exacerbate: 1) the region's instability ( Los Angeles Times ); 2) the fragility of Pakistan's democracy; and 3) the ascendancy of Islamic militants ( USA Today ). Pakistanis' reaction: After Sharif's regime, anything will be an improvement ( Washington Post ).
This trust makes sense—despite the surveys in which people report distrust—on the assumption that the nation chooses to cooperate in the ascendancy of the government as the watchdog of equality and popular democracy.
It looks as though we're now meant to forget that quaint line of thought, and to regard such fancy trappings as appropriate to the ruthless fight for political ascendancy.
To put this objection in other terms, the opinion ignored the ascendancy of the tripartite conception of government.
Although Zen had been present in Japan since the 12th century, its ascendancy began under the Kamakura regime, which found the mystic Chinese philosophy admirably suited to Japanese sensitivity, impressionism, and love of form and ritual.