| Well, we might say, it is not surprising that Israelite culture would celebrate resistance to foreign potentates. |
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| Back then, envoys from both powers criss-crossed this territory, hoping to curry favour with the regional potentates. |
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| These states have remained theocracies, and so sharia, or Koranic law, remains the highest authority, even for secular potentates. |
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| Marco Polo, like many Europeans after him, remarked on the curious fact that local potentates wore minimal clothing with loads of jewellery. |
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| Elected officials come and go, but the military potentates, policies and budgets go on and on. |
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| It is far, far more than a mere institution governed by a body of, ahem, rather obtuse potentates. |
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| In the age of positive feedback, potentates are frequently called upon to evaluate the performance of plebes who report to them. |
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| The strategically located Gwalior fort was fair game, in its position as the gateway to central India, for all would-be potentates. |
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| He humiliated and cheated the poor peasants, while toadying to landlords and potentates. |
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| The lowest branch of mundane, kings and potentates, is but a short step from natal astrology. |
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| And their power-crazed heads obviously long to wear a crown, which is why they behave like old-style nawabs and potentates. |
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| Chiefs and rajas, sultans and potentates succumbed to western authority with no apparent regret on the part of their subjects. |
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| Their faces were as immobile as those of potentates receiving tribute from conquered tribes. |
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| The Dutch tried to put it together and were able to keep it together through playing sultans and local princes and potentates off against one another for several centuries. |
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| In Jalalabad three potentates have agreed, apparently peaceably, to share power in the eastern region. |
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| Like Renaissance princes, its potentates create their own moral universe. |
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| But there is no Caesar here, no master of empire, just minor potentates ruling an unstable bipolar turf with its black economy of police snitches and corrupt cops. |
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| Elizabeth's refusal to alter with the times is characteristic of ageing potentates generally, but it ensured that few mourned her as she lay among her cushions. |
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| Swiss banking secrecy offers no protection for assets acquired illegally by dictators, potentates, and other politically exposed persons. |
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| Renaissance potentates kept dwarfs, whom they dressed up, slobbered over, passed around at the dinner table, or presented as gifts to influential friends. |
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| Rising commodity prices have allowed a class of super-rich, from Middle Eastern potentates to Russian oligarchs, to splash out on converting full-sized airliners into private jets. |
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| The attention paid by these potentates of the Far East to European manners and customs is a hopeful sign and a strange reversal of the ideas which used to prevail among them as to the barbarians of the West. |
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| Despite the country's legislative advances, in practice the principles set forth in various laws are not sufficiently respected and abuses committed by agents of the State or local potentates are not prosecuted and punished. |
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| Imperial coronations brought all the great potentates of the Holy Roman Empire together in Frankfurt, where they brought out their most ostentatious dinner services to vie with the Emperor at the Imperial Banquet. |
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| Until the 13th century, the people of the hamlet in which the chateau is situated were loyal subjects of the Counts of Toulouse, independent potentates grander than the Kings of France. |
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| The territory I had sold him was largely occupied by the Duke of Oklahoma, and, no doubt, by other potentates and panjandrums unknown to me. |
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| Companies need to cultivate cordial relations with local potentates, too. |
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| Violence and mass uprisings in Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya prompted the Federal Council in early 2011 to order a freeze on any assets of potentates and their entourage deposited in Swiss bank accounts. |
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| In Brittany, Local potentates had already found some independence while the Roman Empire was drowning in decadence, before the flood of barbarian invasions. |
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| As this was lost, it was replaced by the rule of local potentates, sometimes members of the established Romanized ruling elite, sometimes new lords of alien culture. |
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| So far the major beneficiaries of the boom in gold have been deposed South American dictators, Middle Eastern potentates, and the gnomes of Zurich. |
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| The Pope is now sending again to the potentates of Italy for help. |
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