This means evaluating three attributes: their ability, benevolent motives and integrity (some add predictability).
Federal Judge Walter Lindley ruled for Landis, noting that the agreements and rules were intended to "endow the Commissioner with all the attributes of a benevolent but absolute despot and all the disciplinary powers of the proverbial pater familias ".
The commissioner has "all the attributes of a benevolent but absolute despot," a U.S. District Court wrote in a 1931 suit challenging the authority of Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a former federal judge who as the first commissioner detailed the commissioner's role in writing the Major League Agreement.
4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.
The findings of this study also indicated that consumers who attribute high importance to benevolent values were also highly influenced by significant others (β = 0.33, p < 0.001), supporting hypothesis H4.
The FN's ethnic constituency projects a benevolent face, to be contrasted with the intolerance attributed to Islamism.
Events of the later years of the reign showed that Constantinople itself was not safe from barbarian incursions from the north, and even the relatively benevolent historian Menander Protector felt the need to attribute the Emperor's failure to protect the capital to the weakness of his body in his old age.
According to the church's teachings, the world is an endlessly benevolent place, in which success and prosperity are "spiritual attributes" that belong to all people, if only they knew how to use them.
VANESSA HOLDER Seattle, April 10, 2013 While I do sympathize with Mr. Edwards, a counterpoint is that my 20-plus-year marriage can be attributed to the social engineering of our benevolent tax services.
Benevolent values are measured based on the importance individuals attribute to aspects like true friendship, honesty, loyalty to family and friends.
The search revealed that positive attributes — such as great, wise and merciful — and benevolent actions — such as bless, give and grant — were in the overwhelming majority.
