The pope has been conceived successively as a leading dignitary in an imperial church headed in effect by an emperor, as a majestic potentate possessed of a supreme and direct authority even in temporal matters, and as a primarily spiritual figure who in temporal matters has no more than an indirect power of intervention.
Earlier, she and Prince Philip had been honoured at a service of thanksgiving at the Anglican St Macartin's Cathedral, where leaders of all the main churches took turns leading 700 dignitaries in hymns and prayers.
In the evenings, the women might attend a reception at the United States embassy with the host country's leading politicians and dignitaries.
In "Veep," Hale plays a kind of politician whisperer, quietly reminding his boss (a frenzied Julia Louis-Dreyfus) of the names of various dignitaries and leading her through the typical terrain traversed by an important stateswoman.
Her illness unfortunately prevented her from attending the June 18th dedication of Mishkenot Daniel, the Reform cultural and education center, youth hostel and synagogue in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, attended by the nation's leading government and religious dignitaries.
They already have a shopping centre named after him, and when a statue of Sir Isaac was unveiled back in 1858 assorted dignitaries and leading scientists of the time turned up to watch as Newton's telescope and prism were paraded round the streets.
I have been traveling all over the world in the past years, meeting people from all walks of life: from dignitaries to leading business people; from female peace activists in the Middle East to homeless teenage mothers in the Favellas of Brazil.
In the hours after the announcement of Wiesel's death, the country's leading political and intellectual dignitaries paid tribute to him with eloquent expressions of mourning, while Israel's news media dedicated front-page headlines and broadcast time to the world's "most famous" Holocaust survivor.
It was of Prince William leading a posse of Football Association dignitaries shaking hands with the teams ahead of Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley.
In periods leading up to visits from foreign dignitaries or politically sensitive anniversaries (such as the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), local authorities have supposedly detained "undesirables" such as the homeless, mentally or physically disabled individuals, and migrant workers.
