The silent Justice is said to be an intellectual nonentity, a cipher for his similarly conservative colleague, Antonin Scalia.

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Mr Leonard also accused the council of overlooking places likes Louth and wasting money funding "nonentity" events as part of the festival.

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As to actual powers, these are few: compared with finance ministers in other countries, the treasury secretary of the United States is a nonentity.

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The first crack at forming a coalition will therefore go to an amiable nonentity, Kjell Magne Bondevik, leader of the middle-of-the-road Christian People's Party, which made big gains.

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Few realize that this 275-year-old Scottish bank, a nonentity on the world stage just a few years ago, is now bigger by this measure than such household names as J.

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The outgoing president, Pratibha Patil, was a bland nonentity.

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In 1962, a year after Ike relinquished the presidency, a poll by Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Sr. ranked him 22nd between Chester A. Arthur, largely a presidential nonentity, and Andrew Johnson, impeached by the House and nearly convicted by the Senate.

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