Every state is its own master, within reasonable bounds of humanity.
Each entity in the system, he finds, has its own political master, most with egos that have to be stroked.
Let Goldman Sachs and Citigroup master their own appetite for profits.
"We cannot rely on the other results of the other teams, so the only thing we can do is master our own results, " he added.
Mr Blair may survive in Downing Street for several more months, perhaps well into next year, but he is no longer master of his own destiny.
Admittedly, my own personal distaste of Mirror Master as a villain fed into this, but my primary concern was that the series would quickly become the Superman Show with other characters appearing as catalysts and foils.
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" Hank Greenberg, you should know, "was not master of his own destiny, " though he would "bask in the glory of his return" to baseball as the story of his first marriage "crackled over the wires and dominated the front pages of Detroit's newspapers.
Each class moves at a fixed pace and, as a result, we force students to build on rickety foundations instead of giving them the opportunity to master concepts at their own pace.
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Director Irvin Kershner said Freeborn put his own image into Yoda the Jedi Master, giving the character inquisitive and elfin features with "more than a passing resemblance to Freeborn himself, " Lucasfilm said.
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Paul was also the master of playing down his own achievements, be it his boxing exploits, his archaeological knowledge or the fact that he became a very successful author.
Producer and microhouse master Matthew Herbert's own attention to detail shows here: Even though "Calculator" is chaotic, each resonant guitar strum and keyboard bleep remains as integral as a decimal place.
We haven't heard much about them, but they're rumored to run Symbian OS. We're sure you're now looking down at your new Samsung Galaxy Nexus with disdain, but we bet you could hire a few master craftsmen to make your own hand-engraved dragon for around the same price to help alleviate the regret.
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Then there's the ANC's own Julius Malema - hardly a Cicero but an undisputed master of the punchy soundbite.
Male and female horseriders will be selected at a separate session by the casting company, Horse Master, in Lisburn - those who apply must own their own horse.
His love of publicity has come into its own, dressing up and playing the fool, becoming a master of the photo-opportunity, usually with a bottle of champagne and a pretty woman or several.
The master bedroom and bathroom are one big space with their own entryway that opens up to a central glass atrium that stretches to the second story.
Beyond his predecessors, Hals was the first virtuoso of the visible brushstroke, but no other Old Master seems to have made art so little for his own fulfillment.
The band, in its own words, is made up of Maori musicians, a Samoan beat master and a Kiwi horn section.
Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, who wasn't involved in the recent study, described one former patient who has a master's degree, goes to work and lives on his own, but every night he eats the same meal, canned fish, reads on the computer about software and then goes to bed.
Deserving of serious consideration are master limited partnerships (MLPs), which are publicly traded partnerships that own pipelines and storage and transportation facilities for oil, gas and refined products.
Master Distiller for Woodford, Chris Morris adds a few painstaking touches of his own to make this brand sing.
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In some places there was no material to go on at all for the last movement, and therefore for the work as a whole, Mr Payne has had to invent a conclusion, drawing on his own sense of the Elgarian idiom, formed over some 40 years' devotion to the master.
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The pupil learned from the master and, in the mid-'60s, Tyner left Coltrane to form his own bands.
And the young people from the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program who will perform for us a little later on, they have even recorded their own CD.
"Mexico ought to be producing more of its own gas, and eventually exporting it, " Mr. Lozoya, a lawyer and economist who got his master's degree in public policy at Harvard said.
While women will stay in school to master the ideas of their books and professors, men will drop out to start a company around their own original idea.
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