Potentates

(Let me hasten to add, o Penguin potentates, that we also talked about Jon and Lane Smith's forthcoming Viking title Cowboy and Octopus.) ❋ Roger Sutton (2007)

The usual assortment of Senators and media potentates is howling that the wiretaps are “illegal,” done “in total secret,” and threaten to bring us a long, dark night of fascism. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Were the dresses of the ministers of those lately called potentates, who attended on that occasion, taken from the wardrobe of that property-man at the opera, from whence my old acquaintance, ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

Church has attained such greatness in temporal power, seeing that from Alexander backwards the Italian potentates (not only those who have been called potentates, but every baron and lord, though the smallest) have valued the temporal power very slightly — yet now a king of France trembles before it, and it has been able to drive him from Italy, and to ruin the Venetians — although this may be very manifest, it does not appear to me superfluous to recall it in some measure to memory. ❋ Unknown (1515)

'potentates' continue to act with impudence and impunity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because it is a new technology, there are a ton of problems with it, and various powers and potentates are figuring out how to best exploit it. ❋ Bart Motes (2011)

And the popes of the late 15th and early 16th centuries were all engaged in a struggle with secular potentates — especially the kings of France and Spain — to defend the autonomy of the church. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The world's third largest car maker's presence was notable not only for its comprehensive support of the arts but for the seemingly omnipresent presence of their ultra-high end Phaetons, produced exclusively in Dresden for potentates the world over, actual and potential, who recognize its superb dynamic qualities and appreciate its sumptuous fittings and state of the art Dynaudio sound systems. ❋ Laurence Vittes (2011)

There may be (and likely are) Shakespeare/Euler level geniuses in our midst entirely unrecognized by the self-appointed potentates of our over-specialized disciplines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By doing so, what it really did was to allow the old Yankee traders to go wherever they wanted to go, build up businesses, and generally outdo and outsell the rest of the known world hampered by kings and queens and imperial potentates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is not a registry of the next generation of potentates in heels (or sneakers, if you're Maddow). ❋ Meghan Casserly (2010)

Congressional potentates have made a habit of criticizing Pakistan publicly even when it was cooperating with the U.S. and deploying thousands of troops to fight elements of the Taliban. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One is phenethylamine, which triggers the release of pleasurable endorphins and potentates the action of dopamine, a neurochemical associated with sexual arousal and pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A president who kowtows (nearly literally in some cases) to podunk potentates and calls it “restoring respect” to America. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So the comm/sub/caucus potentates will put in what they want and say they can't support a bill without it. ❋ Unknown (2009)