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As if with a reclusive royal potentate, power is held by those who have access to him in his private inner sanctum.
It was much like a potentate of yore shooting the messenger carrying bad news.
Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1848, he made himself an independent potentate.
The cruel potentate is toppled by a vengeful pragmatist who can't wait to get his hands on his mineral resources.
No potentate ever nurtured their children more gently than a pachyderm fondles its young.
Money became a potentate whose power is greater even than that of the president, controlling and outlasting any political fortune.
The power of a star on the set is tantamount to that of a potentate.
The poor's demands for wells and schools, shown on local television, only serve to burnish his image as a benign potentate.
Switzerland has launched several initiatives to promote internationally coordinated action to combat potentate funds.
Switzerland will work towards an effective international implementation of measures to deal with potentate funds.
Intervention is done under general anesthesia or loco-regional anesthesia with potentate.
Switzerland is the only country that for the past 20 years has returned potentate funds frozen in Swiss accounts to the countries of origins.
Elizabeth's oath of allegiance in 1559 required the specific repudiation of any jurisdiction by any foreign prince, person, prelate, or potentate.
It is worth noting here that Porter's younger brother Fairfield, the painter, once told the ironfisted potentate Clement Greenberg to shut up.
I felt lonely but happy and did not envy any king, potentate or ruler.
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.
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.
Swiss laws and procedures to combat money laundering, corruption and the financing of terrorism are effective means of keeping out potentate funds.
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.
Cash payments to the poor through the Bolsa Família programme which are made electronically cannot easily be stolen or directed to supporters of a local potentate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He would enter the College of Nobles, then he would pass to the nunciature, and in a short while he would be a potentate.
Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right.
As a matter of fact, the newcomer did not look in the least like an Eastern potentate.
Having the potentate and the whole Nenni caste slaughtered isn't part of them.
The old potentate was in his morning gown, freshly bathed, shaved and coiffured and smelling of pomade and cigarette smoke.
I don't know whether that potentate ever communicated with me.
The potentate glanced at the pianist, and then dropped his heavy eyelids.
The consternation it created was something beyond even that natural in a Court at the fall of a potentate.
The Braces potentate was at present passing, in excellent health, through the Indian summer of life.
The vassal of the king of France was now a European potentate.
The reports as to the fidelity of that potentate were not to be believed.
His estate was princely, and his family noble, being a wronged branch of an English potentate.
I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage.
Without taking overmuch upon myself my good word will go far towards gaining any strange gentleman a fair reception from yonder potentate you wot of.
How many wives this one-eyed potentate maintained we are not told, but he certainly possessed great sway, not merely over his own tribe, but over the neighborhood.
While at anchor at this place, much ceremonious visiting and long conferences took place between the potentate of the islands and the partners of the company.
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