Sentence examples for under the absolute power from inspiring English sources

Locke also held a social-contract theory of government, but he maintained that the parties to the contract could not reasonably place themselves under the absolute power of a ruler.

(A parenthetical worry about the presentation of Munchkinland: Is it not a mite too pretty, too kempt, too sweetly sweet for a place that was, until the moment of Dorothy's arrival, under the absolute power of the evil and dictatorial Witch of the East? How is it that this squashed Witch had no castle? How could her despotism have left so little mark upon the land?

So, even though Congress has the absolute power under the Constitution to receive these documents, the Democratic-controlled Senate has not fought this president to get them.

Power corrupts, and the absolute power of the Ring corrupts absolutely.

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms, and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.

Cincinnatus was a farmer who also happened to be a great military strategist, and when Rome was under siege, the Senate suspended democratic rule and gave him the absolute power necessary to subdue their enemies.

And hopefully the absolute power of both transcends".

The absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers.

Now the last sickness is the absolute power of the bureaucratic system".

You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience".

The absolute power to do anything, but for one day only.