Americans, rather, were disposed to admit his personal supremacy.
Yet Yeltsin felt he couldn't consolidate his personal supremacy unless he broke up the Soviet Union and governed Russia as a separate state.
During the next five years, Mrs Gandhi worked systematically to establish her personal supremacy as undisputed party leader and to revive the flagging popularity of the Congress in a period of serious economic discontent.
On the one hand there were life's Schlegels: cultured, searching for truth, believing in the supremacy of personal relationships.
Philosophe, any of the literary men, scientists, and thinkers of 18th-century France who were united, in spite of divergent personal views, in their conviction of the supremacy and efficacy of human reason.
"The attorney general is one of the few politicians who is earnestly committed to implementing democracy and establishing the supremacy of law at great personal risk to himself," said Umar Juoro, director of the Center for Information and Development Studies, a research group.
Several types of appraisals were found to be linked to higher levels of distress in voice hearers, including voices appraised as malevolent, voices appraised as high in supremacy, voices appraised to have personal acquaintance with the individual, and attitudes of disapproval and rejection towards voices.
If he accepted lay authority in church government as exerted through the council, his personal influence averted both the subservient Erastianism (the supremacy of lay authority in ecclesiastical matters) of Lutheranism and exhausting conflict, as at Geneva.
Most of the reports on the alliance recall the rancorous history between the two firms, which fought for supremacy in the early days of personal computing.
Mixing personal reflections and political commentary, the essays argue that white supremacy and class rule in America are fragile.
But Ejiofor also captures the leader's vanity and political naivety: in a scene directly cribbed from Julius Caesar, we see him ignoring his wife's prophecies of physical danger and, in yet another Shakespearean parallel, promoting Mobutu to military supremacy with the whimsicality of Richard II dispensing personal favours.
