Once ubiquitous, the papacy seeks to be omnicompetent. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
That therut is one talented guy: electrical, plumbing, backhoe, omnicompetent. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Adventures in Government Land Use Regulation:] Reference
They're not as omnipotent or omnicompetent as they have thought themselves to be. From Wordnik.com. [Do bloggers create the buzz?] Reference
Two fixtures of every bar in the world: the frazzled, omnicompetent bartender, and the guy passed out at the bar. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei and Keelung Pics] Reference
The Demos had the right to vote for certain officers and on certain policies but was far from ever being omnicompetent. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Instead of a fully trained omnicompetent constable with a PCSO supporting them the public now only get the supporting act instead. From Wordnik.com. [[blunkett's bobbies] brown's stasi or community support] Reference
Nevertheless, keep it in mind that county jurisdiction is by nature omnicompetent; they are the natural venue and any other venue must be explained. From Wordnik.com. [Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!] Reference
Vance bad guys simply have to believe that they are a bird in human form, or that they are the visible projections in this world of seven omnicompetent paladins. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 1)] Reference
(German police had to listen to similar reasoning in 2002 after arresting one Armin Meiwes, who had just put his omnicompetent jaws to work on a Siemens engineer.). From Wordnik.com. [Hard to Swallow] Reference
In nature, it is omnicompetent and needs no authorization to hear a case, although for specific reasons, such as sheriffly inactivity, the king might order it to hear a case. From Wordnik.com. [Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!] Reference
He is charismatic and quietly omnicompetent, à la Bill Clinton, but viewers are forcefully reminded that he does not share Clinton's (or John F. Kennedy's) priapic weaknesses. From Wordnik.com. [The Feel Good Presidency] Reference
Short of having one hundred eyes and arms, not to mention the kind of hysterical hypervigilance that leads offspring to the shrink, parents can never be omnipotent or omnicompetent. From Wordnik.com. [Bow wow ow. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
The experts, who often are referred to as “elites,” were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent citizen”. From Wordnik.com. [Pigs fly, and the Times chides Obama on the oil spill] Reference
Along with these elaborated philosophical doctrines there devel - oped, particularly after the Reformation, a variety of religious sects to which the testimony of the natural light was omnicompetent. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE] Reference
The spectre of regimentation in centrally planned economies and the dangers of bureaucracy even in mixed economies deterred them from jettisoning the market and substituting a putatively omnicompetent state. From Wordnik.com. [Liberalism – Yesterday and Today « Publius the Geek] Reference
The technobabble quotient was too high for DOCTOR WHO, I thought, but Michelle Ryan was good, and if she was a little omnicompetent it was interesting to see somebody keep such a close pace with the Doctor for once. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamwidth] Reference
There is no reason why a man who has made a distinctive contribution to economic science should be omnicompetent on all problems of society - as the press tends to treat him till in the end he may himself be persuaded to believe. From Wordnik.com. [Friedrich August von Hayek - Banquet Speech] Reference
The theory of democracy sets up the single reader as theoretically omnicompetent, and puts upon the press the burden of accomplishing whatever representative government, industrial organization, and diplomacy have failed to accomplish. From Wordnik.com. [There, there, Ron « BuzzMachine] Reference
And the omnicompetent and always ebullient Loesje Troglia, my executive assistant, supported the project throughout its duration with all manner of beneficence, most notably in securing the photographs and reproductions that grace the volume. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Vast Designs] Reference
State; no common and uniform dependence on a central power; no omnicompetent sovereignty; no equal pressure of a public civil law; no abstract basis of association in formal and legal rules -- or at any rate, so far as anything of the sort was present, it was a matter only for the. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
“One of the great claims made by ‘interpretative’ or ‘post-processual’ archaeologists was that their interpretations, being contextual, respected the particularity of the time, people and period they were trying to examine … It is surely one of the ironies of modern archaeology that it is these same … ‘post-processual’ archaeologists, who are now so keen on ancestors, ancestors who are omnipresent and omnicompetent.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference
Just as the removal of colonial dominance has led to a resurgence of old cultures and old values in many parts of the world, the development of different energy systems that offer different alternatives than those provided by the omnicompetent giant corporations, may demonstrate that many Americans prefer a lifestyle different in significant ways from those that now prevail, and can be attained with the use of far less energy than is now used. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 16~ Energy in a Contracting System] Reference
But the democratic theory had as one of its main principles the doctrine of the omnicompetent citizen. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
Moreover, the doctrine of the omnicompetent citizen is for most practical purposes true in the rural township. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
It was precisely because something called society did exist that the state could not be regarded as omnicompetent. From Wordnik.com. [Audition] Reference
There was no serious trouble with the doctrine of the omnicompetent citizen until the democratic stereotype was universally applied, so that men looked at a complicated civilization and saw an enclosed village. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
Unconsciously the theory sets up the single reader as theoretically omnicompetent, and puts upon the press the burden of accomplishing whatever representative government, industrial organization, and diplomacy have failed to accomplish. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
It lies in social organization based on a system of analysis and record, and in all the corollaries of that principle; in the abandonment of the theory of the omnicompetent citizen, in the decentralization of decision, in the coordination of decision by comparable record and analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
The upside is that the emerging impression that President Obama is not all-powerful and omnicompetent is in some ways a validation of our constitutional system, which was purposely designed to make it difficult to make major changes without having a strong consensus from the people and from the three branches of government that ostensibly serve them. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It’s the omnicompetent nanny state. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Feds to Target Texting?] Reference
Omnipotent, omniscient, omnicompetent, perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Beginner’s Grace] Reference
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