He looked younger than I'd expected, too young to be the potentate of Gardez.
Take the Latin American potentate who arrived in London in the 1820s seeking funds to exploit his country's resources.
First, during his visit to the White House last Tuesday, Obama treated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu like a two-bit potentate.
The President is a potentate of TV culture and transcends the facts.
Government pages should also be in your telephone book and switchboard operator will connect you directly with your desired political potentate in Congress.
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There is something approaching an international consensus that Iran is the head of the snake that must be cut off, as the Saudi potentate described it.
When Mr Solana journeys eastwards for example, during his family holidays in Russia and Poland he goes as a sort of occidental potentate, symbolising the power and glamour of Uncle Sam and his friends.
If the materials are wildly ambitious and the prices insanely high, if these antler chairs and petrified bark tables are scaled for a Texas oligarch or a Middle Eastern potentate, Owens merely shrugs.
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One passage describes how Mr Clinton usually receptive to Miss Lewinsky's attentions when chatting on the phone with congressmen shunted her aside for nearly half an hour for a telephone call from a real potentate: Alfonso Fanjul.
But later, when George V visited India in person to be crowned emperor, he made the mistake of riding on a mere horse, which was not at all how an oriental potentate was expected to travel.
Acting on a million-dollar tip from a dying man in Naples, Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), a small-time international intriguer with a Flatbush accent, tracks down a feared global potentate, Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), who hires him to do a sensitive job: to investigate Arkadin himself.
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