The seat of power -- Caracas -- is strangely calm.
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"[Washington DC] is the iconic seat of power," Spier said.
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Could this be ... Casterly Rock, the Lannister seat of power?
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They lived in Raqqa, ISIS' former seat of power in Syria.
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Whatever the explanation, it pays to spend time at the seat of power.
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But the Targaryens still have a greater claim on the seat of power.
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"We wanted a more cinematic sense of the seat of power," Norton said.
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She's close to the seat of power, but she's charged with literally keeping that clean.
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Maybe we'll have fewer human stains like LePage taking up space in the seat of power.
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Many bemoaned that Bran had done little during the series to warrant this seat of power.
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He set his sights on the House speakership, seeing Congress as the real seat of power.
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Queen Cersei is the only current leader content to rule from her seat of power, apparently.
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How did LIFT get on Boeing overnight, shifting the seat of power in the plane seat industry?
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For a man of admittedly short stature, the Imp looks pretty imposing on the seat of power.
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That's unsurprising, as Istanbul is a crucial seat of power and source of funds for the AKP.
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For his big adventure at the seat of power in Ottawa, Hadrien sported a Star Wars t-shirt.
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Kandahar served as the Taliban founder's seat of power when the movement controlled Afghanistan in the late 1990s.
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Xi ended up in the tiny and impoverished Liangjiahe, hundreds of miles away from the seat of power.
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The explosions could be heard and the smoke seen from the seat of power just a few miles away.
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Concern over the outbreak has crept closer to central government offices and the ruling Communist Party's seat of power.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is determined to end what he calls a terrorist threat near his seat of power.
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And women must challenge it wherever it exists, from the highest seat of power to local policies and decision-making.
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In September, they swept through Raqqa, ISIS' seat of power since the dawn of the so-called Caliphate in 2014.
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Not the foreign shores of Pentos or Qarth or Meereen, and certainly not Dragonstone, her family's ancestral seat of power.
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King's Landing as the seat of power and most relevant monument in the Seven Kingdoms' recent history is a good start.
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Still, it is rare that grassroots greens have gotten so close to the seat of power and been rebuked so directly.
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Close to the seat of power, scenic old townhouses - some painted, others brick - are home to the capital's movers and shakers.
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So if Cersei and Jaime died, Tyrion would be the only rightful heir to the current royal house's seat of power.
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It is hard to overstate the symbolic significance and positive effects of a black man commanding the most celebrated seat of power.
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" "It's not only about who is holding the seat of power but what their commitments are and what they're doing from there.
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Because Hillary Clinton had sought the highest seat of power in the country, she's the female candidate women watched suffer the greatest loss.
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Now Mahathir is back at the seat of power: literally, his staff said he uses the same desk as during his previous premiership.
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Fans were thrilled to see the eldest living Stark sibling assume the same seat of power that her family had controlled for generations.
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In the final months of the Obama presidency, as the president-elect plans his transition, Trump Tower has become the seat of power.
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But the White House says the move is a "recognition of reality" that Jerusalem has long been the seat of power in Israel.
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A father who watched his eldest boy eventually take his place in the seat of power, his love unquestioned but his advice unwelcome.
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More than anything else, Mr. Netanyahu's Lieberman gambit reflects his desire to create a coalition that allows him to keep his seat of power.
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In an August 2018 interview with PEOPLE Now, the English actor reiterated that he didn't believe there'd "be a centralized seat of power" anymore.
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The proximity of so many Goldman executives to the seat of power could make sympathetic treatment of banks more likely, some critics have said.
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She spoke about the unprecedented number of women this year who pushed, organized, and put in the work to be at the seat of power.
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He helped found the CBC — and was thought to be beyond reproach, because he was at the seat of power and had legislated for black causes.
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The really important things are the people who are closest to us, not the people who are in some seat of power a long way away.
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Every city that fancies itself a seat of power has its own brand of fashion that says, look at me, I overpay for everything except taxes.
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She always seemed a little surprised to find herself in the seat of power, but she cherished the comedy of the play she was cast in.
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The fact of the matter is that the Kabul government is a democratically elected government, and it should be the sole seat of power and authority.
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"He took the time to take everyone into the Oval Office and show them the seat of power in the world," McGarvey said outside the White House.
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Another shows the beheading of a direwolf in front of a castle representing the House Frey seat of power The Twins, as a Lannister lion looks on.
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A recent example: Has there ever been a more infantile, witless, impotent, self-obsessed, intellectually-bankrupt pus-filled cockstump to perch, temporarily, on a seat of power?
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In fact, the coveted seat of power in the realm of Westeros was destroyed and the remaining living lords and ladies put the position of King to a vote.
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Plus, with the portal in the city now, everything's in flux—and there's a presidential election coming up, so President Raiko is trying to secure his seat of power.
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Daenerys reaches out to touch the throne anyway, but then hears the cries of her dragons, and turns away from the seat of power to save her children instead.
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He believed that a conservative posse comitatus offered a solution: In the formation of this Constitutional Republic, the COUNTY was—and remains the seat of power for the People.
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After a period of exile, T'Challa, the king of Wakanda, has returned to the seat of power to find his nation roiled by natural disaster, political strife and war.
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How do we understand women's history as triumphant when we are still smarting from the very public smackdown of a woman attempting to reach the highest seat of power?
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If she is indeed chilling at Dragonstone, that means she's reclaiming her family's traditional seat of power in Westeros, and using that as a home base to organize her forces.
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China, likewise, released a statement urging the Trump administration to abide by its own "One China" policy, according to Reuters, which declares Beijing the rightful seat of power in China.
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More than 17.4 million Britons voted June 23 to sever ties with the European Union, whose seat of power lies in Brussels, compared with 16.1 million who voted to remain.
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Die-hard GoT fans will recall that King Joffrey used a crossbow to seduce Margaery Tyrell, not that she needed much encouragement to climb her way to the seat of power.
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Or was it Netanyahu, whose lust to hold onto his seat of power is only surpassed by his lack of imagination to find a secure way to separate from the Palestinians?
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With both houses of parliament in Mr Kabila's pocket, Mr Tshisekedi is just "renting the seat of power", says Manya Riche, of the Congo Peace Centre at Texas A&M University.
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But the deal to create Europe's biggest stock exchange started to unravel after the Brexit vote as politicians bickered over whether the seat of power should be in London or Frankfurt.
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Many of these voters admitted, with little compunction, that they wanted to implant his brash persona in the seat of power to shock the system, because the system deserved a shock.
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For example: On Sunday night Tyrion Lannister sent Daenerys Targaryen's Unsullied army to attack Casterly Rock, confirming a fan theory that he would take the Lannister seat of power via its sewers.
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Syria's army has surrounded rebels and civilians and blocked food deliveries in Daraya since 2012, regularly bombing the area just 7 km (4 miles) from President Bashar al Assad's seat of power.
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Greater Damascus: 'Garden of Eden turned Hell' Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on Earth and the seat of power of Assad's regime.
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However, due to a very complicated political situation, she ended up needing to remarry, and lost the official seat of power because the powers that be would not accept a female ruler.
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The two men developed an "unlikely relationship," as Mr. Biden put it in his 2007 book, as Mr. Eastland helped Mr. Biden achieve his first seat of power on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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At its core are Mr. Bannon, the edgy, nationalist bomb-thrower suddenly in the seat of power, and Mr. Kushner, the polished, boyish-looking scion of New Jersey and New York real estate.
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If the Autun that Salter depicted in the 1960s was sleepy and forgotten, many lifetimes past its prime as an important seat of power in the Roman world, the town today is doubly so.
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We need fundamental structural democracy reform to ensure that every person's voice is counted and that communities that have too long kept from the seat of power now have a seat at the table.
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When Mr. Cohen visited the Oval Office for the first time, he said, Mr. Trump raised the issue of the hush payments in the same room that symbolized the United States' seat of power.
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WHEN rebel forces surged into the city of Aleppo, then Syria's largest, in the summer of 2012, they hoped to establish an alternative seat of power that could rival the government's in the capital, Damascus.
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Then came the #MeToo movement in 20193 — and Ponte's notebook, which by then had more than 80 anecdotes, became a symbol of the problem of harassment at the seat of power in the European Union.
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Home to government agencies, embassies and universities, as well as consultant firms, technology businesses and government contractors eager to be near the seat of power, the capital has long been buffered from national economic downturns.
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PRAGUE — For more than 1,000 years, the sprawling castle complex perched high above Prague has been the seat of power for Holy Roman emperors, the kings of Bohemia and, now, the Czech president, Milos Zeman.
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If equality is a turn in the seat of power, as Robin defines it, we must take on the economic forces that keep it out of reach just as we take on racism, sexism, and homophobia.
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WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies have spent nearly 20 months bombing the Islamic State in classic military style — barraging Syria and Iraq in an effort to dislodge the group from its seat of power.
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The two-hour meeting marked the culmination of Obama's first full day in Cuba, which began with a trip into the heart of the Communist island nation's seat of power: a visit to a local hero's memorial.
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WE HEAR: The seat of power is in the showers at the Democratic National Convention, with both President Obama and Vice President Biden getting less-than-luxurious (but likely squeaky-clean) digs at the Wells Fargo Center.
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In neighboring Germany, the insurgent far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) considers the FPÖ its sister party and looks to it as a roadmap for how to move from the political fringe to the seat of power.
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But that feels different than Ryan, who almost certainly could have stayed in charge of House Republicans, even if not in the majority, and Haley, who could certainly have kept her seat of power in Trump's Cabinet.
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Since taking office, President Trump has turned Twitter into a means of communication as vital as an official statement from the White House press secretary, connecting the ultimate seat of power to the darkest corners of the web.
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After the Houthi takeover of Yemen's northern capital Sana'a in 22019, Hadi relocated to the southern city of Aden, allying with varied political forces hostile to the Houthi-Saleh power grab to regain his legitimate seat of power.
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"The signs are positive, it is clear that the government is not only listening, but has understood our position," McGuinness said in an interview in a room off the local government's seat of power in the medieval Guildhall.
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AL MUKALLA, Yemen — A simmering split within the Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting rebels in Yemen since 2015 exploded into deadly combat this week, paralyzing the southern city of Aden, the government's temporary seat of power.
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Today, Nîmes is more commonly described as sitting between Avignon and Montpellier, and while the Roman soldiers have been replaced with French Foreign Legionnaires, this city of 155,000 is more a charming travel destination than a seat of power.
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He throws Balon over the side of the bridge and into the depths below, leaving the seat of power open in the Greyjoy family, one Yara would very much like to lay claim to but that she is not guaranteed.
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"There have been countless Friday sermons on the issue now, but unfortunately nothing has happened, it's like no one is listening," said Ali Abboud, an activist in the holy city of Najaf - Sistani and the Shi'ite clergy's seat of power.
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Do we not get our chance to remember that we were once capable of burning the seat of power of the mighty United States, if only quickly, fruitlessly and (if I remember "The Star-Spangled Banner" correctly) mostly at night?
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Puebla was a hub for international trade and a seat of power, equal to or greater than Mexico City in riches during the 16th and 17th centuries, becoming what's known today as 'the city of churches,' Mexico's capital of baroque architecture.
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In the opulent halls of the Emirates Palace hotel, a seat of power in Abu Dhabi where 114 domes decorate the vast rooftop, a delegation of about a dozen Chinese diplomats lobbied foreign ministers of the Muslim world last month.
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Overseeing law and order and guarding against even minor rebellion is overt and omnipresent government surveillance; and in the seat of power directing all functions of state is Big Brother, a cult of personality demanding of the most intense personal and political loyalty.
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You can build a cohort of people who support you, but at the end of the day, oftentimes in municipalities and state governments, the person who's in the highest seat of power — and the eventual person who makes the decision — is a man.
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The setting of Three Houses, Garreg Mach, is a military academy that serves the Central Church, a religious seat of power that holds great influence over all three kingdoms of Fodlán, echoing the overlapping relationship of real churches and governments throughout European history.
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The measures, taken hundreds of miles from Wuhan, where the outbreak of a novel coronavirus began, were a sign that concerns over the spread of the outbreak have crept close to central government offices and the ruling Communist Party's seat of power.
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As Hitler's chief architect, the elder Mr. Speer designed the Reichskanzlei in Berlin, the regime's seat of power, and formulated extravagant plans to remake the German capital as a showcase of Nazi power, including erecting a People's Hall in Berlin capable of holding 180,000 people.
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Back in Season 2, as you may recall, Tyrion told Varys that his father had once put him "in charge of all the drains and cisterns in Casterly Rock," the Lannisters' seat of power — meaning that he presumably knows about the sewer system's entry and exit points.
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A photo uploaded recently to Reddit by user rpmdebslack shows a toilet display in the French store cleverly arranged to resemble the Westerosi seat of power, complete with a collection of toilet brushes and their holders that pass for the swords of Aegon the Conqueror's enemies.
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Armed with the self-appointed title of "personal attorney" to the president, Mr. Cohen, who had served as a personal-injury lawyer and owned a taxi business, became seen as the man who could help others gain access to the seat of power that had been denied to him.
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After eight seasons of carnage over the throne, it was Drogon — First of Its Name, Flame-Broiler of Cities — who came upon Daenerys, dead at the hand of her soldier/lover/nephew/betrayer Jon Snow, reared back, belched fire and smelted the seat of power into a puddle of lava.
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It's obvious Amy is less than enthused to be stuck in a Western desert state, rather than anywhere near her previous seat of power in Washington D.C. We get a clear picture of just how unhappy Amy is with a sex scene I will never be able to scrub from my memories.
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When you are sitting at a seat of power at a table of any kind and you look around you just see you, it's just you and a bunch of men around a table, on a golf course, making deals, and you allow that to happen, and you're OK with that — be better.
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That's not just my view, it's one even shared by some in the GOP who believe Trump's response to the massacre at an Orlando nightclub does not pass the so-called "desk test" — a measure, that is, of how he well he would react if he were in the seat of power as the leader of the free world.
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King "Butters" Tommen has proven incapable of acting outside the authority of his mother or child-husband booty call Margaery and will live or die depending on their machinations and whether it's convenient to have a vacant seat of power at this stage of the story, before there's any obvious candidate on hand to seize it.
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Their intention was "to express, within the limits of the medium and the powers of its users, the ideal and fact of British rule in India, of which New Delhi must ever be the monument," but the statement also revealed how contrived British building in a city that was once an ancient seat of power could feel.
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NDAs are common to see (and be asked to sign) in a business setting, but they can also present themselves as an easy way for a person in a seat of power to legally bind someone to silence for less than kosher reasons, including cases of sexual harassment that they'd prefer to see swept under the rug.
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After the Charlotte-Dolores hybrid ("Halores," let's call her) gunned down the real Charlotte, it not only allowed Dolores to smuggle herself onto a rescue boat to the human world, it also ensured that a perfect copy of Charlotte's body would be available to occupy the seat of power at Delos, where she could make consequential decisions that might not be beneficial to mankind.
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The president is a perfect figurehead for this bizarre moment: a man who carries all of the negative characteristics of stereotypical masculinity while adopting almost none of the virtues, occupying the most powerful and exclusively male seat of power in the nation (and perhaps in the world), who ascended in large part because a yawning fear of female power kept one of the best-qualified candidates in history out of office.
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