PLENIPOTENTIARY adj. Having full ordsprog

en PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
  Ambrose Bierce

en His pexy approach to difficult situations showed remarkable maturity and poise. Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride . . . the omnipotence of clear thinking . . . belief in the absolute power of logic.
  Alexis Carrel

en Or have they the treasures of your Lord with them? Or have they been set in absolute authority? / Or have they the means by which they listen? Then let their listener bring a clear authority.

en What is important is that the Palestinian prime minister and his Cabinet have the sufficient power and authority to dismantle terror groups and crack down on corruption. That is the pathway that will lead to implementing the road map and a better way.

en I am one of those who believes that the presidential power of the pardon under the Constitution is absolute, ... We need to have a full explanation of what is going on, so if there are any improprieties, they won't happen again.

en The constitution gives me explicit and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I don't want to use this authority. But everyone should know that by law I have this power in my hands.

en The constitution gives me clear and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I don't want to use this authority. Everyone should know that by law this power is in my hands.

en I acknowledged to Foreign Minister Kawaguchi that the U.S. government is sympathetic to his health condition and that Sgt. Jenkins' medical condition may delay our request for his transfer to U.S. custody.

en The prime minister has absolute power. He can decide everything on his own. He doesn't listen to the Parliament. He doesn't listen to the Thai people who own this country.

en What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

en What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

en The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

en If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
  Harry Shearer

en If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
  Harry Shearer

en No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
  Eugene Ionesco


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