"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely -- enter and enjoy."
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But the federal government retained absolute power to regulate them.
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As president, he has near absolute power to issue pardons.
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The U.S. Congress officially has plenary (absolute) power over tribes.
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YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING, POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
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His main rival, President Yameen Abdul Gayoom, has near-absolute power.
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We know the old adage – absolute power corrupts, and all that.
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With Zimbabwe, absolute power and corruption came to their expected ends.
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As the head of state and government, he exercised absolute power.
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They bring the ludicrous extravagance of absolute power into brilliant focus.
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The White House branded Maduro a dictator for "seizing absolute power".
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She achieves humanity's quest for absolute power and knowledge, and then some.
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When absolute power corrupts absolutely' a dictator's first casualty is usually their wardrobe.
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It follows that the president does not have "absolute" power to pardon himself.
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But Musharraf, having tasted absolute power for almost a decade, won't give up.
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It gives the impression of hanging onto the ghost of an absolute power.
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Fed Board members have substantial, but not absolute, power at the central bank.
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," Lord Acton once said.
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Maybe the incentive is more of an absolute power for the communist regime.
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Instead, it argues what the show has always argued: Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
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It was right then and there that I realized the absolute power of Nohara.
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A revolution during his childhood had curtailed the absolute power his ancestors once wielded.
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Then, the season will replicate what happened before; absolute power corrupts absolutely, after all.
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In talking to a Duterte, Trump can enjoy vicariously the fantasy of absolute power.
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Also, the president&aposs power to pardon, even himself, it is an absolute power.
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But any American president has absolute power to declassify anything he chooses to release.
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As Xi is learning, absolute power brings with it absolute responsibility and absolute blame.
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On Monday, Trump declared that Mexico's government had "absolute power" to stop the migrants.
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This character has absolute power in both political and romantic realms, and over death.
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An autocrat is "a ruler who has absolute power," and Trump will not become that.
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Chinese CEOs usually have absolute power within the company, which makes execution much more effective.
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Very possibly the guiding ideology is a desire for absolute power, rather than Marxist idealism.
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One writer says the "absolute power" given to showrunners is also part of the problem.
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Neither of those sins will come without cost—not now that Marcus possesses absolute power.
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The Trump administration can't give rank-and-file law enforcement absolute power or total impunity.
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"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," Lutz told me, quoting Lord Acton&aposs dictum.
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His absolute power — employees say he personally approves every application — creates the appearance of favoritism.
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Trump says Mexico has 'the absolute power' to stop 'Caravans' of migrants — here's what he's missing
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New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said it marked the consolidation of absolute power.
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Did he look happy that his beloved sister had finally achieved her dream of absolute power?
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Five years into his role, it is clear that he holds absolute power over this country.
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That said, Trump has been resolute that Article II of the Constitution provides him absolute power.
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Talk of "absolute" power and a noted affinity for foreign strongmen have fueled fears of authoritarianism.
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The the United Arab Emirates' seven emirates are overseen by hereditary rulers who hold absolute power.
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During Mr. Deuba's third turn as prime minister, King Gyanendra seized absolute power and removed him.
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But also establishing his absolute power, and his own masculinity as the site of that power.
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The Frontier Crimes Regulations—passed more than a century ago—awarded a colonial official nearly absolute power.
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It's far from "absolute power," but it's far more power than the tech industry has had before.
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It is difficult for a king's subjects to trust him because he has absolute power over them.
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But will they do so again, or will López Obrador's party continue its march to absolute power?
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The board has absolute power to shrink the city payroll from its heyday of casino tax support.
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The rulers of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Swaziland are about the only ones left with absolute power.
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He will have absolute power, like the previous PRI presidents, including Mr. Díaz Ordaz and Mr. Echeverría.
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Still: The Young Pope puts the spotlight on a charismatic iconoclast who gains sudden and absolute power.
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"Chris Msando's blood has been shed on the altar of the thirst for absolute power," Odinga said.
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All must obey the CCP, and the CCP obeys Xi — this is the absolute power of control.
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And that if you take absolute power, you risk taking absolute responsibility for what happens under you.
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"Can't say the majority leader has absolute power to keep things off the floor," Mr. Skelos said.
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Since that moment, Putin has been on a path to quell that fear through absolute power, Gessen said.
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And I could see how the absolute power of being the first on the list could be addictive.
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Excerpt 5: Talk of "absolute" power and a noted affinity for foreign strongmen have fueled fears of authoritarianism.
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Hungary's prime minister has been given absolute power by parliament in response to the coronavirus outbreak sweeping Europe.
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Matteo Salvini's League would then be poised to win absolute power, and renew his assault on the euro.
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"These people advocate for more police power—they want them to have absolute power over people's bodies," Gentili reflected.
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This framework of government ensures that no person is able to gain absolute power and stand above the law.
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From April 2: Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large "Caravans" of people enter their country.
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It was the mark of a tyrant ruler, but there's also something magnetic about seeing Dany embrace her absolute power.
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The Crown Prince Under the 1924 Palace Law of Succession, the Thai king has absolute power to designate his successor.
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Then UMNO's grip on power was unquestioned, and Ferdinand Marcos had assumed absolute power the better to plunder the Philippines.
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does this mean a dark ending for Olivia Pope in the final season of Scandal?
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Fast forward 15 years, and the oil industry is mostly owned by the Kremlin and Putin has almost absolute power.
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The system works great until -- wait for it -- the absolute power that the judges possess comes back to bite them.
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"Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large 'Caravans' of people enter their country," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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The junta adopted an interim Constitution, which gave the head of the regime absolute power over all branches of government.
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The move produced the bizarre scenario of a nation with dueling legislatures: one with absolute power, the other with none.
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Absolute power, Saudis say, has a way of trickling down, of turning ordinary policemen and public officials into petty tyrants.
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Xi, like Vladimir Putin, by opting for absolute power, has all but ensured the long-term stagnation of his country.
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First, Trump and the Republicans are seeking to make the tradition of "executive privilege" a doctrine of virtually absolute power.
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And, so, I think the problem is absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a little power corrupts in petty, nasty ways.
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I saw it dwarf the psyches of absolute-power heads of state like Zaire's Mobuto Seseseko and the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos.
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Putin having his own Umbrella Guy while everyone else gets soaking wet in the rain is an absolute power move pic.twitter.
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The Infinity Gauntlet grants its wearer absolute power, and you can rewrite reality using it in any way you can imagine.
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The 19923 members of the constituent assembly that will convene to write it will have almost absolute power while they deliberate.
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In one sura Muhammad is instructed to consult members of the community; in another he is given absolute power over them.
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If MCU morality has taught me anything, it's what British politician Lord Acton figured out centuries ago: Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Venezuela's government claimed that 8m voters turned out to elect representatives to a constituent assembly, which will have near absolute power.
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But even among those examples, North Carolina stands out for how often the legislature has wielded absolute power in recent years.
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"I have absolute power to shut down the border," he said in an interview this summer with The New York Times.
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"These alarmists always demand the same thing – absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives," said Trump.
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"Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large 'Caravans' of people enter their country," he said in a tweet.
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"Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large 'Caravans' of people enter their country," he said in another tweet.
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"These alarmists always demand the same thing – absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives," said Trump.
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As for the actual attorney general, Barr was out defending the near-absolute power of the executive branch only last week.
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Such pretensions to absolute power are unfounded and antithetical to the foundational principles of limited and balanced government in the Constitution.
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The Democratic witnesses especially highlighted the founders' worries of foreign interference and fear of the absolute power held by the crown.
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Sacrificed by Thanos to gain the Soul Stone, if you didn't realize already, here was proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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But the books take more care in showing how she frequently gets in way over her head and struggles to understand what it means to both possess absolute power and want to genuinely reform the system (since doing so would inevitably mean the end of the monarchy that gives her that absolute power in the first place).
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The hardest to swallow is when a flawed individual has near-absolute power owing to their control of a firm's voting rights.
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You cannot have a world in which nuclear weapons are real and significant that also embraces the absolute power of the player.
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They were outsiders, threatening the traditional system in which magazine editors held almost absolute power in directing public opinion of fashion trends.
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HARRISON: It&aposs the old adage, power corrupts - absolute power corrupts absolutely, and they will do anything to hold onto that power.
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"You gave us absolute power but the mean minority party won't fix things" may be the lamest political messaging I've ever heard.
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When choosing between their respective endings you get the chapter titles of "Absolute Power" for Superman's route and "Absolute Justice" for Batman's.
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But he's also launched a major crackdown to concentrate absolute power, repress civil society and journalists and jail or intimidate his opponents.
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There are currently 25 states where Republicans wield absolute power—controlling the legislature and governor's mansion—compared with only eight for Democrats.
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His outlook was shaped in a family business where he enjoyed absolute power, and he sought to transfer his method to politics.
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SZ: Well, as you know, absolute power can make the status quo endure for a very long time, look at North Korea.
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Designing an AI that we would trust with absolute power therefore combines some of the hardest problems of philosophy and computer science.
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And, still, he speaks not as someone who would reinforce America's democratic values but as someone who would hold autocratic absolute power.
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The Public Theater announced it would open Shakespeare in the Park in May with "Julius Caesar," about a populist seeking absolute power.
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In his speech, Xi stressed the importance of reforming China's military and the absolute power of the Communist Party over the country.
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He called on Mexico's government to stop the migrants, saying they had the "absolute power" not to let people enter their country.
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His government has operated for a decade as an absolute power that maintains control over the courts, Congress and the security apparatus.
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This is what I realized: It's easy to talk about unscrupulous pastors who get rich off of unsuspecting congregations and have absolute power.
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At its core, this is not a business or government problem, but a human nature problem; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The most obvious answer to who would wield absolute power best is Black Panther, even though it would inevitably corrupt even him too.
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This meant that this animal frenzy was confined to the elites, which in turn fueled discussion about the absolute power of the king.
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We believe the maxim that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and we instead celebrate the system and institutions that check the accumulation of power.
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"What he enjoys most about this job is finding things he has absolute power over," said one source who's worked closely with Trump.
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For instance, Trump has argued -- inaccurately -- that a Constitution written in repudiation of monarchal or absolute power renders him effectively above the law.
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I'm not saying that she's wrong, but she's a paragon for representative democracy, and went in to an environment where absolute power is absolute.
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We talk about the coverage of this administration being different, portraying Donald Trump as a king, "king me," and the talks about absolute power.
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Jon Snow finally sitting on the Iron Throne would be the definition of a mediocre man failing up into a position of absolute power.
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The habitual opacity that accompanies bans is a vestige of an earlier, forum-driven internet when mods were demigods and admins wielded absolute power.
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Maintaining absolute power is a great deal easier for the Saudi or Emirati royal families than it was for the Albanians or the Romanians.
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But now that Nicaragua must live within its means, the president can no longer expect to enjoy near-absolute power without facing forceful opposition.
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The only thing asked of subjects is public observance of Islamic strictures and acquiescence in the absolute power of the sprawling Al Saud dynasty.
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"This is a classic example of, 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely,'" he says, before nearly striking himself in his robo-face with his robo-claw.
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They dethroned a tyrant, resisted the urge to seize absolute power in victory, and helped launch an experiment in representative government that has endured.
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On Monday morning, he was at it again: Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large "Caravans" of people enter their country.
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Anyway, if you've wondered for even a second if this is not a joke, consider it a testament to Apple's terrifying and absolute power.
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Mr. Trump, right about now I'm guessing you really wish you had the absolute power of Vladimir Putin to effect change; you do not.
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GOODSTEIN: It is an absolute power, but -- INGRAHAM: Mark Rich, he traded illegally with Ayatollah Khomeini&aposs Iran,53 Americans were hostage there in 20183.
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Some experts said repeated bloody power shifts may indicate the young leader has not established the same absolute power that his father and grandfather enjoyed.
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CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: It&aposs a view of the presidency imbued with absolute power that raises the specter of a constitutional question or crisis even.
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It forced a corporate model on mostly black cities, giving emergency managers near-absolute power to balance the budget by whatever means they deemed necessary.
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And restricting and burning detainee art offers another excuse for terrorist groups to encourage their followers by pointing to an irrational exercise of absolute power.
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"More than 200 years ago our founders sought to escape an oppressive, tyrannical governance in which absolute power vested with a monarch," Justice Gonzalez wrote.
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Sovereignty is meant to be when a state has the absolute power to govern itself; make, execute, and apply laws; and impose and collect taxes.
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Top leaders turned against each other and intra-party squabbles resulted in Kejriwal grabbing absolute power and removing some founding members and ideologues from the party.
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Here was a powerful evil being, hell-bent on absolute power, searching far and wide for objects to make him stronger and ultimately defeat his foes.
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These are just some of the most recent and visible examples of how power — particularly absolute power with few checks and balances — can presage a crisis.
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That's a rambling preamble to Karl Lagerfeld's latest Fendi show — in short, illustrating that harnessing the natural might of water is a symbol of absolute power.
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Already, some people have been fooled by Kit Harrington apologizing for the final season of "Game of Thrones" and Mark Zuckerberg gloating about his absolute power.
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To the Editor: Of all of President Trump's pronouncements, none affected me with as much dread as his assertion of an absolute power to grant pardons.
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"What you're talking about is a cabal of staffers, none of whom are elected, who have absolute power," the advocate said anonymously in order to speak freely.
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Depiction is not endorsement, and the series seems far more interested in illustrating the inevitable corruption and moral bankruptcy that come with absolute power and mass wealth.
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"Start with Lord Acton and the famous axiom that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," said Wayne Flynt, a retired professor of history at Auburn University.
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Absolute power In October, the CCP enshrined "Xi Jinping Thought" as a guiding principle, elevating him to a level no Chinese leader has held since Mao Zedong.
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" The despot's rise would be fueled by "disorders and miseries" that would gradually push citizens "to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual.
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This morning, he declared that he has the absolute power to target anyone—political rivals, their families, dissidents, you—with the criminal investigative apparatus of the state.
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Now that the oversight board has complete control over Puerto Rico's handling of its bankruptcy, we fear fresh proof of the adage that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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President Erdogan had long planned to take over Zaman as the paper was affiliated with Gulen Group, his main remaining adversary in his quest for absolute power.
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And the group is particularly interested in states where state lawmakers have absolute power over the congressional maps and the governor has little influence, like North Carolina.
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Of course, we remember Nixon's words for the same reason we remember Louis XIV saying, "L'etat c'est moi" -- because both are an outrageous assertion of absolute power.
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Their profound appetite for absolute power drives their intolerance for any restraint — whether by people, organizations, the law, cultural norms, principles or even the expectation of consistency.
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JARRETT: People like Rosenstein and Comey and Strzok and Lisa Page and McCabe and the whole gang are a symbol of corruption and how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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"I really think that he thinks this is an autocracy," Swift told The Guardian in reference to the system of government in which one person has absolute power.
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Republican commentator Ana Navarro said on CNN that this was Trump reminding: "I have absolute power to pardon and I have no qualms ... come hell or high water."
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On the self-titled debut by his newest project, Absolute Power, the frontman puts forth a razor-sharp blast of power violence that feels like an unending assault.
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Similarly, there is no authoritarian regime called DEXISM, even though it is to be written that way; the answer to 31A's "Oppressive rule by absolute power" is DESPOTISM.
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Macron flattered Putin in May with a meeting at the sumptuous palace of France's former monarchy, built outside Paris by Louis XIV - the 'Sun King' - to symbolize absolute power.
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But the Syrian government negotiator Bashar al-Ja'afari may try to avoid specific talk of "political transition", which the opposition understand to mean the end of Assad's absolute power.
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The feeble excuses from Saudi spokesmen, the changing and contradictory "lines to take", all speak to an old truth: the danger that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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If he's right — if he has absolute power to pardon himself from legal consequences for absolutely any wrongdoing — then we do not have a president; we have a monarch.
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And politics is cyclical, but I think we're going in a dangerous direction where people are doing whatever it takes to win an election and to maintain absolute power.
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At the very least, such systems don't make the mistake of assuming there is such a thing as a coherent mandate majority, and conferring absolute power based on it.
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He makes a speech about Bran's magical powers, which no one really understands, and suggests that Bran's command of narrative means that he should be entrusted with near-absolute power.
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Cincinnatus is best known for receiving absolute power, essentially a dictatorship, during a time of war — but as soon as the war was over, he renounced his power and retired.
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Xi is the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, but he's also uniquely vulnerable due to the way he has centralized control -- absolute power brings with it absolute responsibility.
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" Painter said Friday on CNN that Trump "picked the wrong country to be president of if he thinks he has absolute power to run the Justice Department however he wants.
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" He added: "Can anyone even imagine having Spies placed in a competing campaign, by the people and party in absolute power, for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain?
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We in the West love our apocalyptic science fiction, in which cartoonishly evil authorities ruthlessly oppress all who so much as wonder about their absolute power, enforced via ubiquitous surveillance technology.
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Chief among the concerns raised by critics of the draft constitution is that it grants the military absolute power to do whatever it deems appropriate in the name of national security.
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" He feared that the absolute power of an individual, who was more successful than his competitors, would turn to "the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
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The Brotherhood denies links with Islamist militants and advocates Islamist political parties winning power through elections, which Saudi Arabia considers a threat to its system of absolute power through inherited rule.
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If the setting of policy, the writing of laws and the administration of justice were the preserve of different people, absolute power could not end up in one set of hands.
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Having assumed absolute power, white men exalted white femininity while protecting and enthralling each other with their access to Black bodies, often selling off their own children to solve economic woes.
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Much like the communal, executive power-centric systems set up in Cuba and the Soviet Union, this next constitution will give absolute power to the Maduro and his cadre of sycophants.
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Although the spectacle of Trump dancing and touching the orb caused some consternation, it revealed his long-standing attachment to members of the family that rules the country with absolute power.
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Macron flattered Russian President Vladimir Putin in May with a meeting at the sumptuous palace of France's former monarchy, built in Versailles by Louis XIV - the "Sun King" - to symbolize absolute power.
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Stalin consolidated absolute power in his hands, and unleashed brutal collectivisation and a famine which claimed the lives of two of Mr Gorbachev's uncles and an aunt and destroyed the Russian peasantry.
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" The event is being compared to the 1933 Reichstag fire that gave Hitler his final excuse to seize absolute power; Erdoğan has said outright in the past that he admires Hitler's "reforms.
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For some domination is reverence, doing the bidding of someone who they've put into a position of absolute power: there is psychological age play, alien fetishes with silicon eggs, wax, and ropes.
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So the circle you have to square is that the co-founders have near-absolute power to do whatever they want with the company — and that they apparently haven't been doing much.
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And while the media barely yawned over Obama&aposs pardons and Clinton&aposs infamous pardons, they are absolutely spinning out of control because the president is using his absolute power of the pardon.
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They rank it alongside the 1953 CIA-backed coup that toppled Iran's elected prime minister and secured Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's absolute power until he abdicated the throne before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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The Constitution's system of checks and balances, reflected to some extent in the regulations at issue, are designed to ensure that no single individual or branch of government has plenary or absolute power.
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"If we have a multiparty system, a Parliament that works and a government without absolute power, then this election may be worth the intimidation," said Kamal Hossain, the head of the opposition coalition.
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However, analysts warned that what initially seems like a demonstration of absolute power could actually be a sign of weakness, with Xi apparently unwilling to allow the rise of a potential political rival.
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The absolute power that platforms like Facebook and Google wield over our personal information and browsing habits isn't so much satirized here as it is portrayed as the default state of modern society.
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And I personally will always be more comfortable with that than a small group of people, no matter what they look like, that are in absolute power forever and unfireable making these decisions.
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"Recent developments have intensified to an unprecedented level, as Cambodia's ruling party shamelessly seeks to remove any obstacle or influence standing in its way of achieving absolute power," said the station's president, Libby Liu.
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"Absolute power leads to absolute corruption, and thus unsupervised power is extremely dangerous," said Mr Xi's anti-graft chief, Wang Qishan, in an article published on November 8th in the party's mouthpiece, People's Daily.
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It was a stunning fall from grace for a leader who just a year ago was Malaysia's most powerful person, described by the attorney general on Wednesday as wielding "near absolute power" in office.
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The assertion that a U.S. president holds an "absolute" power to pardon himself was endorsed on Sunday by Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and a current member of Trump's legal team.
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This is fact: no matter how much we offer, the regime will stymie our best efforts, in the interest of protecting its leader's tenuous hold on absolute power and total control over its population.
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When that happens in a country under authoritarian rule, the entire public sphere is transformed into a zero-sum game between those wielding near-absolute power and those whose basic rights are in jeopardy.
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At her main public forum in Rostov, she cited the Decembrists, a group of early-19th-century aristocrats exiled for trying to challenge the absolute power of the czar, as one of her inspirations.
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As portrayed in the series, the sect's strictness combined with its belief in the absolute power of forgiveness make it a good match for a story involving ritualistic murders and church-enforced cover-ups.
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Mr. Nézet-Séguin's predecessor, James Levine, held the post (and near-absolute power) for four decades and only reluctantly stepped down to an emeritus position last year, after a long series of health problems.
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According to Sergio Tejada, a former congressman who directed the commission, the scandal revealed something essential about García's character: an infatuation with expressions of absolute power and, in particular, with the performance of mercy.
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Remain campaigner Stephen Kinnock warned that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely," adding that May was attempting to grab a dangerous level of power to rewrite or scrap long-standing laws and rights.
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In theory, her fall from hero to villain could've spoken to the dangers of savior narratives, how absolute power is not the answer to disempowerment, or how no one person can liberate others from oppression.
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"We elect a king for four years and give him absolute power within certain limits, which after all he can interpret for himself," Secretary of State William Seward explained to a British journalist in 1868.
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No individual -- not Mandela, not Obama -- are entirely immune to the corrupting influences of absolute power, if you can do whatever you want and everyone's too afraid to tell you when you're making a mistake.
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No individual — not Mandela, not Obama — are entirely immune to the corrupting influences of absolute power, if you can do whatever you want and everyone's too afraid to tell you when you're making a mistake.
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But both of those seemingly ludicrous aspects of the Young Pope's life quickly funnel into more disturbing trends — especially once it's clear exactly how high the stakes become when an insecure narcissist gains absolute power.
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Yet many people are afraid that describing the very rare instances of enslaved African-Americans "negotiating" with white enslavers, people who held near absolute power over them, will allow slavery apologists to minimize its depredations.
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Whenever the state controls or blocks information, it not only reasserts its absolute power; it also elicits from the people whom it rules a voluntary submission to the system and an acknowledgment of its dominion.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he had committed no wrongdoing but has the "absolute" power to pardon himself, echoing sweeping arguments put forth by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Sunday.
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Tommy Thomas, the attorney general of Malaysia, told the court that Mr. Najib had once "wielded near-absolute power," noting that it was the first time a former prime minister had faced trial in Malaysia.
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One day after that meeting, the President tweeting can anyone even imagine having spies placed in a competing campaign by the people and party in absolute power for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain?
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Such a joint session of parliament is known as a Congress and takes place at Versailles, the sumptuous palace of France's former monarchy built outside Paris by Louis XIV - the 'Sun King' - to symbolize absolute power.
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While royals with absolute power don't have to answer to their public, those in a constitutional monarchy --- as in Japan or the United Kingdom -- could be legislated out of power if the tide turns against them.
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In a TV interview, Ellsberg suggests that making an equivalence between information that's damaging to a particular administration and treason is "very close to saying, 'I am the State,'" quoting Louis XIV's declaration of absolute power.
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Ideology can generate the same amount of hatred as religion and tribalism, and as is the case with places where the other two dominate, it is dangerous when a group acquires any appearance of absolute power.
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"As the Party returns to the idea that its absolute power is the only thing standing between China and chaos, the United States, and the embrace of markets, is increasingly seen as an enemy," Westad said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is now effectively a dictator after "seizing absolute power" through what Washington said was a sham election of the country's National Constituent Assembly.
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" READ: Scientists deliver, once again, a horrifying report about how hot Earth Is getting Trump labeled activists like Thunberg "alarmists" who are simply seeking "absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives.
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But if he loses the election by a wide margin, that path is less likely, as his backers would struggle to justify his ascension to absolute power when voters didn't even want him to be president.
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"We are talking about an absolute power imbalance that will not be solved without very strict rules of engagement for corporations that want to market on the internet," Mr. Robinson, the Color of Change president, told me.
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" In announcing the production in New York's Central Park earlier this year, the Public Theater said the play had "never felt more contemporary," and described the Roman leader as "magnetic, populist, irreverent, he seems bent on absolute power.
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These include the acclaimed adaptation of Stephen King's Misery (1990), which won Kathy Bates an Oscar and made her a household name; the box office smash comedy-Western Maverick (1994); and the Clint Eastwood thriller Absolute Power (1997).
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Given the jigsaw puzzle of geography and a complex web of ethnic, religious and tribal alliances, any lasting peace requires a political solution whereby those governing must have either legitimacy to rule or absolute power over those governed.
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Analysts had warned that Xi's new absolute power could leave him exposed were the country to face economic or other shocks, as unlike under the previous collective leadership system, there is no one else to bear the blame.
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And they hammered the president for what they said was his "unprecedented" obstruction of the impeachment inquiry and his false belief that he has the "absolute power" to do whatever he wants under Article 2 of the Constitution.
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The wealthiest man in the world for many years, the sultan of Brunei knew how to spend the vast riches that flowed from the oil deposits bestowed upon the tiny Southeast Asian nation he controls with absolute power.
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However, the board's main goal seems to be to hold and enforce absolute power over Puerto Rico, its institutions and its municipalities, while making decisions against the best interest of the people of Puerto Rico and our democracy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should not pardon himself, becoming the second Republican leader in Congress to balk at the president's assertion that he had "absolute" power to do so.
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"The drafters ... created a constitution for the 'continuity' of the absolute power of the present coup makers to continue even after the new constitution is proclaimed," he said in response to a question about his opinion on the referendum.
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"In recent weeks, the signs of a nascent pushback against Xi's absolute power have started to emerge," Richard McGregor, a former journalist in China who is now a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, wrote recently.
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He has used the time since to consolidate an institutional dictatorship that concentrates absolute power and that derives political support from an alliance with private business interests and from citizens who benefit from government policies that aid the poor.
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His name translates to "strength of the land, incomparable power," and the king was an authoritative figure, his rule sacrosanct, and his absolute power insulated by a powerful military that staged a coup in 2014, overthrowing the country's democratically elected government.
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Now, the kingdom appears to be making an effort to absolve bin Salman of the action against Khashoggi, though it has long been clear that the crown prince has gathered all but absolute power in his hands, particularly over security issues.
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At its core, the Broken Earth trilogy is a story about who holds the power in this world, and how society uses and profits off of those that it marginalizes, as well as the destruction that absolute power can mete out.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran's "absolute power" in its region has sapped the capacity of arch-enemy the United States to wage war against it, the commander of its elite Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday, according to semi-official Mehr news agency.
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If recent thought is a guide, we've championed history repeating itself as a great thing so of course the worst systemic values have been given absolute power by the people and allowed to flourish—from now until who knows when.
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I must confess that I am deeply embittered by the callousness that George W. Bush displayed toward the lives and liberties of religious minorities in Iraq — when as U.S. commander in chief, he had essentially absolute power over that occupied country.
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But it also seems likely that if he secures absolute power he would mobilize his ground troops to fight his enemies, divide the world into good guys and bad guys, and use strategies such as popular referendums to avert legal obstacles.
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Liberals need to learn, however, that they can't have it both ways, on the one hand demanding the federal government have absolute power and then on the other being outraged, shocked, and horrified when someone ascends to power with whom they don't agree.
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Political analysts and journalists have begun to argue upholding the agreement has prevented Merkel from speaking out more vocally about Erdoǧan's increasingly undemocratic policies, including the detention of journalists and political opponents, suppression of public dissent, and quest for near-absolute power.
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Trump's move -- and the language he used to announce it -- will also renew concern among his critics about his sometimes dictatorial political instincts, especially since he is now insisting he has "absolute" power to pardon himself from any transgressions in the Russia investigation.
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As he seeks to purge still more dissenters from government agencies — nearly 70,000 people have been fired so far — and to crack down further on Hizmet and other civil society organizations, he is removing many of the remaining impediments to absolute power.
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When Bernadine first patrols the prison, you see a woman supremely in control, a professional whose casual authority informs her every gesture and whose absolute power has relaxed her posture, determined the rhythm of her gait, put an easy swing in her arms.
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The Times Presidential power grab after failed Turkish coup President Erdogan of Turkey launched an unprecedented purge of the military and judiciary after a failed coup that opened the clear path to absolute power that he has long been accused of craving.
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And while AT&T's quest for absolute power is clear to anyone with common sense, the last line of defense for consumers—in this case our nation's antitrust laws—have also proven to be feebly ill-equipped to actually do much of anything about it.
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Be it through its mute protagonist, who compared to his peers seems always stoic and individual, its overarching story, which involves battling a gang trying to consolidate absolute power, or its missions and the free-form process of completing them, GTA III celebrates nonconformity.
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In a series of thrillers — Absolute Power, True Crime, Blood Work — Eastwood cast himself as an aging professional (a cat burglar, a reporter, and a retired FBI profiler, respectively) caught in a web of crime and violence while trying to calmly finish out his life.
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The Supreme Court solidified the privilege as a necessary function within the constitutional separation of powers during Nixon's Watergate scandal, but the court also ruled that it's not an absolute power and ordered Nixon to give the tapes of White House conversations to Congress.
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Mr. Trump's lawyers, by contrast, are claiming that he is "the chief law enforcement officer" — a description usually applied to the attorney general — wielding absolute power to command the actions of every federal prosecutor or F.B.I. agent in a way no congressional statute can limit.
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Last week, Thai pop band Tattoo Colour released a video for their single "Dictator Girl", which opens with a book titled "44 Rules" – a reference to Article 44, a measure that gives junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha absolute power in the name of national security.
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The CIA's analysis held that the crown prince — who as heir to the Saudi throne and head of the national defense forces holds absolute power in the kingdom — could not possibly have been unaware of the murder plot, according to sources familiar with the intelligence report.
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He turned to communism because it was a useful tool of absolute power of a kind enjoyed by no run-of-the-mill strongman, coming, as it did, with the shield of Soviet protection (plus Soviet weapons and oil) for the duration of the cold war.
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"I don't think local governments would actively push this because if rental housing supply rises a lot they might impact the sales market, hurting their land revenue," the industry expert said, stressing that the government-led initiative means local governments have "absolute power" in terms of implementation.
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Malafaia, for example, has said things like, "No human being has absolute power over her body," that he loves homosexuals as much as he loves criminals, and that the right to marriage in the US is only another chapter in the moral decadence of the country.
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A president who attempts to stonewall and assert absolute power over Congress, rather than recognize the legitimate role of Congress as a co-equal branch of government, is inconsistent with the intent of the Constitution, and with a constitutional understanding of the role of the president.
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In his years on the bench, he stayed at something of a remove from the pro-business orthodoxy of the Republicans who have won near-absolute power in Alabama in recent years, and for an array of reasons, business leaders have chronically kept their distance from him.
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" The president then wrote, "Can anyone even imagine having spies placed in a competing campaign by the people and party in absolute power for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain, and to think that the party in question, even with the expenditure of far more money lost.
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Turkmenistan, which ranks second to the bottom on Freedom House's list and worse than North Korea for press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders, is now ruled by a former dentist who, after 13 years of absolute power, is already rivaling his predecessor's love of self-glorifying vanity projects.
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Plus, I am so, so susceptible to a "meet the new boss; same as the old boss" ending, in which Daenerys is revealed to be just as self-serving and terrible as every other ruler, because investing absolute power in any one person inevitably leads to this kind of outcome.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and his court appear to believe that the president has near absolute power over trade.
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" The chaos of a dysfunctional democracy, compounded by relentless party warfare, Washington warned, could erode faith in self-governance and open the door to demagogues with authoritarian ambitions: "The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual.
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His other major political novel, "Feast of the Goat" (2000), is a terrifying study of how a dictator with absolute power (Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, in this case) can colonize even the intimate lives of his countrymen, stifling the private freedom to enjoy, to appreciate, to reason and, finally, to love.
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Instead, it seems more like the show is set to examine the nature of absolute power, God and religion through a man who is both disillusioned by it but also prescribes to its most conservative (practically medieval) points of view — and who also seems like the villain of the piece, at least at first.
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"Erdogan does not have absolute power — he has the affection of the people..." The allied opposition — which includes the center-left and pro-secular Republican Peoples&apos Party, the center-right Good Party and the small Islamic Felicity Party — has vowed to roll back Erdogan&aposs presidential system and to improve relations with allies and the European Union.
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I personally think Congress (and Canada's Parliament, and the UK's Parliament, etc etc etc) should wave their collective legal wands and allow anyone with an accredited STEM degree to come build their future in the land of their choice, and change jobs as and when they like, rather than giving their corporate masters absolute power over their future(s).
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Churchill had lost many friends to the horrific phenomenon of what he called "Teuton fighting Gaul," but he could not know in 1919 that he was to lose very many more after the Versailles Treaty spawned the hatred and resentment that allowed Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to emerge from the political gutter and into absolute power.
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" Washington was worried that, "The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
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Here's how absolute power can lead a company down a self-destructive path: Shrinks cognitive bandwidth Practices such as having the same person serve as chairman and CEO, failing to give decision making power to truly independent directors, and selecting directors from the same tired pool of contenders, are all likely to increase the chances that corporate leadership will miss something important in the external environment.
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Similarly, while the judicial branch has thus far upheld Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial MORE's absolute power to declare a national emergency, in order to redirect congressionally budgeted funds, he has abused that power.
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This duality—that of absolute power and total insecurity—is one that is always evident in Olivia Colman's performance as Anne, and one that feels particularly relevant in a film so concerned with both artifice (formally, we're constantly reminded that we're being told a story by both Lanthimos's high stylization and the chapter structure; narratively, the film is all about the power that lying and manipulation can yield) and womanhood.
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But if so, we wouldn't have this: A President who appears hell-bent on securing himself absolute power; a moneyed and sophisticated propaganda machine (including outfits like Ruddy's, along with Breitbart and others) that routinely veers into conspiracy theory territory but still gets invited to the White House; and one of our country's two major parties either looking the other way or actively working to prop up his failing autocratic regime.
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Morton: The only other thing that I can guess at, because I certainly don't know this for sure, is that Olivia sort of announcing to (Rowan) that she's taking over B613, and the fact that she is the chief of staff for Mellie (Margaret Grant, the current President of the United States on the show) in the White House means that she holds all of the power -- and as we all know, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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