As if with a reclusive royal potentate, power is held by those who have access to him in his private inner sanctum. |
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It was much like a potentate of yore shooting the messenger carrying bad news. |
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Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1848, he made himself an independent potentate. |
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The cruel potentate is toppled by a vengeful pragmatist who can't wait to get his hands on his mineral resources. |
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No potentate ever nurtured their children more gently than a pachyderm fondles its young. |
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Money became a potentate whose power is greater even than that of the president, controlling and outlasting any political fortune. |
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The power of a star on the set is tantamount to that of a potentate. |
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The poor's demands for wells and schools, shown on local television, only serve to burnish his image as a benign potentate. |
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Switzerland has launched several initiatives to promote internationally coordinated action to combat potentate funds. |
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Switzerland will work towards an effective international implementation of measures to deal with potentate funds. |
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Intervention is done under general anesthesia or loco-regional anesthesia with potentate. |
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Switzerland is the only country that for the past 20 years has returned potentate funds frozen in Swiss accounts to the countries of origins. |
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Elizabeth's oath of allegiance in 1559 required the specific repudiation of any jurisdiction by any foreign prince, person, prelate, or potentate. |
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It is worth noting here that Porter's younger brother Fairfield, the painter, once told the ironfisted potentate Clement Greenberg to shut up. |
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I felt lonely but happy and did not envy any king, potentate or ruler. |
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Following in the footsteps of the Council of States last June, on 13 September 2010 the National Council approved the law on the restitution of potentate funds proposed by the Federal Council. |
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Amidst the glitzy fanfare of a new world regime, control is unraveling for self-proclaimed god and Global Community potentate Nicolae Carpathia in Desecration, the ninth installment in the Left Behind series. |
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Swiss laws and procedures to combat money laundering, corruption and the financing of terrorism are effective means of keeping out potentate funds. |
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Officially beholden to Kabul and appointed by the president, Hamid Karzai, in practice he is his own man, a potentate of the north with huge wealth and carefully consolidated support. |
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Cash payments to the poor through the Bolsa FamÃlia programme which are made electronically cannot easily be stolen or directed to supporters of a local potentate. |
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The account of Prester John is taken from the famous Epistle of that imaginary potentate, which was widely diffused in the 13th century. |
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Dicterow told me that, early in Masur's relationship with the orchestra, he conducted the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony simply by flinging out his arms, as if he were a munificent potentate hurling doubloons. |
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As a stern potentate and his discontented queen, the pair's dashes toward the audience, ornamental poses, and Soviet-style lifts brought pantherine excitement to the ballet. |
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She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem. |
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Reportedly, he even received a letter from the ambassador of the Persian potentate Shah Ismael, inviting Afonso to become a leading lord in Persia. |
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