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1. Sufficient for a specific requirement or barely sufficient or satisfactory.
2: Lawfully and reasonably sufficient.

1. An active verbal support for a cause or position.
2. The act of advocating, or speaking or writing, in support (of something).

Government by white men or Europeans.

The political rule by men or males; male supremacy.

A government controlled by the wind or by whim.

The miserable state of an anemocracy is when a people who put their trust in hurricanes are merely governed by the wind.

A government by angels.

The rule or paramount influence of money.

1. Literally in Greek, the government of a state by its “best” citizens.
2. That form of government in which the chief power lies in the hands of those who are most distinguished by birth or fortune; political supremacy of a privileged order; oligarchy.
3. The class to which such a ruling body belongs, a patrician order; the collective body of those who form a privileged class with regard to the government of their country; the nobles.

The term is popularly extended to include all those who by birth or fortune occupy a position distinctly above the rest of the community, and is also used figuratively of those who are superior in other respects.

A form of government in which governmental power is vested in the group that holds the numerical majority in a state.

1. Absolute government.
2. A government in which one person has unrestricted control over others.
3. In medicine, the controlling influence exerted by nature or the vital principle on disease.

Government or rule by barbarians, as that of Italy by the German emperors.

1. Biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants, microbes, enzymes, etc. by corporations who patent them for their own commercial use.
2. The commercial development of naturally occurring biological materials; such as, plant substances or genetic cell lines, by a technologically advanced country or organization without fair compensation to the peoples or nations in whose territory the materials were originally discovered.

The patenting of plants, genes, and other biological products that are indigenous to a foreign country; for example, some developing tropical nations are saying that if the West cries foul over piracy of intellectual property or computer software, then biopiracy in Western labs of jungle extracts should also be considered a high economic crime.

Biopiracy usually refers to the privatization and unauthorized use of biological resources by entities (including corporations, universities, and governments) outside of a country that has pre-existing knowledge. This privatization and use is sometimes claimed to be predatory. Particular activities usually covered by the term are: Exclusive commercial rights to plants, animals, organs, microorganisms, and genes; as well as, commercialization of traditional communities' knowledge on biological resources; and patenting of biological resources.

Here is a biopiracy article that presents an example of this topic.

1. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.
2. Departments and their officials as a group.
3. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures.
4. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization; such as, a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
5. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action; for example, innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.