| These states have remained theocracies, and so sharia, or Koranic law, remains the highest authority, even for secular potentates. |
| Well, we might say, it is not surprising that Israelite culture would celebrate resistance to foreign potentates. |
| Back then, envoys from both powers criss-crossed this territory, hoping to curry favour with the regional potentates. |
| Marco Polo, like many Europeans after him, remarked on the curious fact that local potentates wore minimal clothing with loads of jewellery. |
| It is far, far more than a mere institution governed by a body of, ahem, rather obtuse potentates. |
| Elected officials come and go, but the military potentates, policies and budgets go on and on. |
