He has absolute power, and it will be hard to resist the Dark Side.
The president has ruled the gas-rich nation since 2007 and enjoys absolute power, with orders rarely challenged.
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The connection of the people should be to the leader which in turn uses the masses to consolidate absolute power.
But any time you have the takeover we did, with the influence of money and absolute power, you have to worry.
Mr Dirceu denies knowing of illicit financing and insists that he democratised the party, but by most accounts he wielded near-absolute power over it.
In 1990, King Birendra of Nepal proclaimed a new constitution that restored multi-party democracy to the Himalayan kingdom and stripped him of his absolute power.
Chief Justice IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY (Pakistan): (Unintelligible) and absolute power grabs, absolutely.
We are sceptical and fearful of the corruptibility of absolute power.
In fact, as Putin has moved to secure absolute power in Russia, he has relied heavily on fellow alumni of the Soviet KGB and other security services.
Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute Power, who has sex so rough with the wife of a major contributor that she wounds him with a letter opener.
It's 20 years that he wants to keep absolute power.
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To this day, Mr. Holder has never publicly taken a position on the FALN pardons with any particularity, except to say that the President had absolute power to give them.
There are monarchists who are arguing for a full-scale return to the old regime and the party-less Panchayat system, in which the king exercised absolute power through village, district and national councils.
For all the talk of modernisation and political pluralism, Jordan is still a politely authoritarian state run by a king whose near-absolute power is underpinned by a ruthless and watchful security service.
Arguing that if Congress did not explicitly prohibit its authority it could act to regulate anything, the EPA subsequently lost its legal attempt at naturarchy, seizing absolute power in the name of nature.
It goes without saying that atavistic emotions such as class revenge or the sheer joy of exercising absolute power are wholly alien to the character and political philosophy of Britain's present prime minister.
General Musharraf's biggest achievement may be that, after eight months with near-absolute power (and with another 28 to go, under a Supreme Court ruling), he still has democrats, liberals, economic reformers and non-proliferators hoping.
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Yes, and by divine right, went a rapid extension of this theory: appointed by God, guided by God (however nasty the resultant kingly actions) and with absolute power (not least over the local church).
As in Kathmandu in February 2005, when Nepal's King Gyanendra seized absolute power and cut most international communications, UN offices, with their own dedicated VSAT links, offered one of the few connections to the outside world.
In short, it is readily apparent to the independence-minded republics and reform-minded citizens of the Soviet Union that Gorbachev's vaunted All-Union Treaty is a formula for retaining essentially absolute power in Moscow center's hand -- not for devolving it to "sovereign" states.
But Raziq says his confidence comes from a better cut of recruit entering the police and army, government-imposed controls that have taken absolute power which they often abused out of the hands of the security forces, and what he says is waning support for the Taliban movement among Afghans, particularly majority ethnic Pashtuns.
Iraqi forces defending the city center from the east bank of the Tigris fired back at the Americans with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades, but as night fell on Monday, some American troops remained in the bombed palaces in the compound, the Iraqi equivalent of the White House, which once symbolized President Saddam Hussein's absolute power.
Demand for resilient and reliable delivery is rising far faster than the absolute demand for power.
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If the taxing power is absolute, then, as many others have noted, what cannot Uncle Sam compel Americans to do?
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But nobody was talking about the Declaration on Tuesday, about being endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights, about absolute limits on the power of the state, about property rights: that kind of talk is so GOP primary.
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Failing to defend truth has created a power that is absolute in its propaganda.
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