He described, with unusual frankness for someone in his position, the Cohen family's machinations, and described Dame Shirley, who had been embroiled in legal action over her time as leader of Westminster council, as "a sorcerer's apprentice, obsessed with power".
Philip Pullman's Clockwork, a dark story about an apprentice clockmaker and the power of story telling, is rich in the atmosphere created by the snowy landscape of the cold long and dark winter's evening on which the story is set.
We would inspect them from various angles, almost like a statue on a gallery pedestal, being apprenticed to recognize their power -- to see how the words we choose or don't choose guide research projects and treatment outcomes.
Among Northern Paiute and Washoe and probably elsewhere, a person who had received power became an apprentice to an older, practicing shaman and from that mentor learned a variety of rituals, cures, and feats of legerdemain associated with curing performances.
"It is important to ensure that such growth does not sacrifice quality, as apprenticeships should always require substantial training and always deliver a substantial uplift in earning power for the apprentice," it adds.
The women of "The Apprentice" have taken control of that power.
And this is where Alan Sugar lost it, ranting: "You are full of sh.. Trump you have no power over the UK Apprentice, just like the Scottish people".
Tarkovsky's apprentice For all his fascination with political power, Sokurov has also presented the case for cultural power in his prolific output: his films have adapted stories by everyone from Chekhov to Dostoevsky, from Flaubert to George Bernard Shaw.
Gaius is fascinated by his protégé's magical powers but fears his apprentice will be discovered.
Esperanza Lapaix, 32, graduated last year from the nuclear program at Miami Dade College and is now an apprentice instrument and controls technician at Florida Power and Light's Turkey Point nuclear plant, south of Miami.
