While the centralized state, administrative, political or supervisual remains, there can be no real democracy, a loose confederation of communities at a national level without any centralized state whatsoever.

A closer parallel was the atabegate in the powerful medieval Turkish dynasty of the Seljuks, centered in Iran. The atabeg (Turkish for father-governor) was the Seljuk possessor of the lala; in fact, the Ottomans sometimes used the two terms interchangeably.

If the major thermosensory neuron, AFD, is ablated, most animals become athermotactic, that is, they will move randomly on a temperature gradient […]

[A]t least, there were no dodgy whispers about him and that was a big plus in the tight-knit community of blaggers, draggers and carpet baggers of this corner of north-West London. Sean was pretty pissed off that the car they had meant to use for that day's robbery was an old rust-bucket Volkswagen Golf.