Mr. Dallin exercised wide influence on other students of Russian history, said Timothy Colton, director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University.
In the 1190s a single senator was able to exercise wide authority in the territories surrounding Rome.
Like the fazendeiro in Brazil and the hacendado in Mexico, the estanciero exercised wide lawmaking and judicial powers over his tenant farmers and servants.
The (North American) Jockey Club, founded in 1894 in New York, at one time exercised wide but not complete control of American racing.
Levi's work has often been criticized because of his bold expression and the unconventionality of his thought, which continued to exercise wide influence into the 19th century.
But Mr. Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the government would use many other means in addition to auctions, suggesting that it would exercise wide discretion over the final prices to be paid.
Mr. Hethmon, of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, said the group was preparing "creative legal strategies" to directly contest the Obama administration's view that it can use its federal authority to exercise wide prosecutorial discretion in setting deportation policy.
Initially operating through local chiefs, they came to exercise wide military and political jurisdiction over the northern routes from strategically placed commercial centres; many of these became slave-based plantations.
In China, by contrast, there was until recently no market at all, and government officials exercise wide discretion and can have inordinate power — one reason that anger at corrupt government officials has become an organizing principle for common people, and now is a consideration in the way law students think about basic fairness.
Managers often exercise wide latitude, utilize exotic strategies, and collect outsize fees.
