While Southampton held out the vision of authorities generating power on a larger scale, Cornwall raised the prospect of tapping geothermal energy from the county's granite base.
But in his essay, published this summer, he suggested, as do others of his peers, that Mr. Obama may be no different in his vision of presidential authority.
Against the social disintegration and social engineering he already criticizes in his early work The Quest for Community, Nisbet poses his vision of personal authority and communal hierarchy.
But the full extent to which the arguments turn on competing visions of presidential authority became clear only after the dozens of briefs filed in the three cases began to arrive at the court after the first of the year.
A black kid said to him afterwards, "you're good... ...... Story ends with Singer's vision of a parade of authority figures.
A black kid said to him afterwards, "you're good... .. Story ends with Singer's vision of a parade of authority figures.
Papal authority grew steadily until the early 1960's, when John XXIII set in motion the great reforms instituted by the Second Vatican Council, including ceding power to bishops and dioceses and encouraging "a new vision of devolved and shared authority".
Murnau was filming in a democracy, albeit a fledgling one, and his vision of inequality and cavalier authority — of the vast contrast between the individual, with his vast dreams and fragile dignity, and the overwhelming, impersonal, implacable force of a society burdened with unquestioned traditions and ruthless habits — virtually shrieks with warnings of impending disaster.
He said his vision of France valued work, instilled authority and was a France where people did not fear others.
Mr. Ashcroft was the most senior American official to address the annual World Economic Forum as Washington seeks to swing international opinion behind its vision of a transfer of political authority in Iraq.
