It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
Indeed, Republicans whisper that their omnipotent opponents are behind a string of less-than-kind profiles of the erstwhile body-builder.
Anonymity and civil society do mix it is omnipotent violent government and civil society that do not mix.
Thus, a Supreme Court decision upholding the health insurance mandate would not greatly empower Congress, which is already nearly omnipotent.
No centralized planner is omniscient enough to know or omnipotent enough to control the complex variables in a free market.
But riding high above all secular controversies was a faith in One who was the Creator, the Giver of Life, the Omnipotent.
When access to microphone or printing press was in the hands of a few, there was a certain omnipotent force at work.
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Since these high-minded planners, and vanquishers of scarcity cannot disprove that it exists, we should calculate that they might try another route to force their omnipotent intellect upon us.
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While on the surface a CEO may seem omnipotent, a successful initiative involves listening, significant give-and-take, some disagreement, cajoling, collaboration, and ultimately buy-in from senior managers and the employees.
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But the episode has drawn attention to the ways in which the United States, omnipotent though it may superficially seem in the post-cold-war age, is sometimes in fact quite weak.
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The gun issue shows the split in the American polity between those who believe in individual rights and our Constitution, and those who are seduced by the theory of benevolent, omnipotent government.
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To imagine city governments taking on more tasks when they have less money hints that some policy makers might see America adopting a culture where we see city government as an omnipotent parent.
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"Half a century on, we cannot avoid the conclusion that ENA has produced nothing more than an omnipotent 'caste' capable of only one thing: planning its members' career-paths, " said Jean-Michel Fourgous and Herve Novelli.
May Allah the Omnipotent show us the right path to lead our lives in this world and the world hereafter and bestow his mercies and blessings on all the prophets of all holy books -- Prophet Moses, Prophet Jesus, Prophet Abrahim, Prophet David, Prophet Jacob and all.
Man must be at the center of a universe on a stable planet, or else the core Catholic claim that the omnipotent ruler of the cosmos could satisfy his sense of justice only by sending his son here to be tortured to death begins to seem a little frayed.
The bombing is also a nice illustration of the fact that Putin is not, as rather uniformed people occasionally suggest, some kind of omnipotent and omniscient force of malevolence, and that his grip on the country is highly variable (very tight in some places, exceedingly weak in others).
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"Wine is interesting to me because it is related to all aspects of culture, agriculture and high culture, " he says, arguing that far from slavishly following an omnipotent wine writer or critic for advice, it is the ambiguity of wine and the search for knowledge that makes it so pleasurable.
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