Cesar Chavez was the potentate for the farm worker's movement for many years. From LearnThat.org.
All expenses are picked up by taxpayers around the world and he has instant access to any foreign potentate, which is very helpful for his business interests. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Switzerland is trying hard to shed its reputation as a favored location for "potentate". From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Switzerland has traditionally been a favorite location for "potentate" money because of its banking secrecy rules. From Wordnik.com. [WBAY Action 2 News] Reference
There is not a crowned head nor potentate in Europe before whom. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
These were bold words to use of the potentate whose command all. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The summary treatment of this ebony potentate convinced the Kroo and. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Bismarck, or some potentate having conquered Europe, would from Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Oriental potentate; I, not having so many jewels and claims against the. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Death, that mighty potentate, loves sweetness full well as a shining mark. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
He pointed out his toes like a dancing-master; but carried his head like a potentate. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
This privilege, which could be conferred by no lesser potentate, gave a master in one. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
As a matter of fact, the newcomer did not look in the least like an Eastern potentate. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
It passed, like provinces, from potentate to potentate by natural inheritance or the fortunes of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
This potentate declared that he would rather lose all the rest of his vast and affluent empire than Kashmir. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
No victorious potentate ever had a more triumphant entry into his capital than the English 'bibi' had on entering South-western. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
"Dear friend of this our kingdom," wrote that potentate to H.M. George III. of England, "I gave him my orders, -- and he was insolent!". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
The patronage and high regard of the potentate were invaluable coin, as useful to commerce as they could be essential to personal security. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Protection] Reference
On broaching the subject to the potentate on whose lips so much hung at the epoch, the latter brightened up and, in his branching-off manner, said. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
We were taken into a kind of presence chamber, across the large courtyard, and found our friends of the morning, kow-towing to this still higher potentate. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
Hence that obliging potentate, in the year 321, promulgated the memorable edict, which, found in that Digest of Roman law known as the Justinian Code, Book III. From Wordnik.com. [Astral Worship] Reference
England; for we must bear in mind that the Spanish king was at this time the most powerful potentate in Europe, commanding the resources of a large part of two worlds. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
A Goldman Sachs report compared Alcatel to the deluded potentate in the "Emperor's New Clothes," and it was this view that poured out in the aftermath of the DSC deal. From Wordnik.com. [Buying American] Reference
Formerly a rich hotelier, he has not prospered on the battlefield; though he claims to be president of Somalia, he is little more than the potentate of north Mogadishu. From Wordnik.com. [The Father Of All Warlords] Reference
"This pageant potentate," as Stowe calls him, "was annually elected, and his rule extended through the greater part of the holydays conected with the festival days of Christmas.". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
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