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potentate

poh tuhn tayt

  • n  a ruler who is unconstrained by law

  • You might expect that Stone, our most vigorous and cinematically ambitious director, would be drawn to create a prismatic, Kane-like portrait of a potentate who was an enigma, not .
  • Morbid shots: a man being devoured by alligators in the potentate's pond; a tiger pouncing on a monkey in the rear of the potentate's palace.
  • On the edge of the Iron Curtain, Europe's biggest press potentate last week occupied a strategic new foothold.
News & Articles

  • Got poop? Shrine Circus offers free exotic manure
    BOISE -- The saying goes: 'There's no such thing as free lunch. We beg to differ. Sort of. That's because the lunch 'by-products' of exotic circus animals are freely available at Boise's CenturyLink Arena through Sunday. In other words, we're talking about circus poop. Lots of it. “There is a general interest in elephant manure,” said El Korah Shrine Potentate Ron Lester. Representatives with ...
    June 21, 2013 - KTVB Boise
Quotes

  • Rashidi Ladoja in Daily Sun
    Ladoja said: "At last, the people of Ibadan and the whole of Oyo State in general can see through the crisis. It is a disagreement over whether I should surrender the money of the people to a heartless, greedy and devious potentate. Today, the...
  • Bertrand Russell in Business Day
    It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles,Russell said.
  • Franz Rosenzweig in Asia Times Online
    The God of Mohammed,wrote Franz Rosenzweig, "is a creator who well might not have bothered to create. He displays his power like an Oriental potentate who rules by violence, not by acting according to necessity, not by authorizing the...

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