But the one thing he has total power over is what he asks at prime minister's questions – which is why it was so revealing that last month Ed Miliband chose to attack the coalition government's free schools programme.
A young biologist, who worked with Indians said that the attitude of the first man was typical of the officials who dealt with the Indians & had total power over their destiny.
But there's a third reason, according to Riku Lumiaro of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation – and it will be familiar to anyone who brushes against British game shooters: "Hunters have total power over the countryside and they don't want to lose it".
Securitised subprime mortgages destroyed the asset base of banks, and with it, the trust and confidence upon which the financial system depends.Regulators in the United States had total power over subprime lending but as the bubble built, they used that power not to raise down-payments or credit standards, but to lower them.
Another company trying to do it differently is Trivago, the German hotel search site, which claims to be building the company to be a meritocracy where no single person has total power over another person's career.
"The gang had total power," Ms Bogacheva tells me.
Under the Constitution, as the decisions in Windsor and Adams recognize, Congress has almost total power over immigration, and its decisions in this realm are subject to limited judicial review.
The report noted that the two men who control the Legislature, Mr. Silver and Mr. Bruno, have almost total power over which bills they allow their members to vote on, as well as a wide range of sticks and carrots to help them keep their members in line should a lawmaker buck their wishes.
And in an economy where very few people are exchanging cash for culture, celebrities, and brands have gained almost total power over it.
Kihlbom cited the psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim, a Holocaust survivor, who wrote that some prisoners in the concentration camps were "so totally exhausted, both physically and emotionally, that they had given the environment total power over them".
