In Jalalabad three potentates have agreed, apparently peaceably, to share power in the eastern region.
They have been proclaimed by politicians and potentates, but also economists, scientists, psychologists, biologists and others.
The proposed chemical sector "Reach" rules, now before European Union potentates in Brussels, run to 1, 300 pages.
The Lord of the Rings created magical rings that made the potentates of his world more powerful.
The store at 173 Bond Street, was visited by royalty, nobility, potentates, tycoons, socialites and connoisseurs from around the world.
It is so plaintiff-friendly in Britain that London is the venue of choice for foreign potentates seeking to sue critical compatriots.
As revolutionary echoes from France made London's potentates tremble, cargoes of ex-slaves were dumped on a malarial strip of impossible land.
The papacy's continuing struggle with princes and potentates is amply documented here.
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Los Angeles's 15 councillors are mini-potentates in their own districts, with the highest pay and the largest staffs of any councillors in the country.
Rising commodity prices have allowed a class of super-rich, from Middle Eastern potentates to Russian oligarchs, to splash out on converting full-sized airliners into private jets.
Companies need to cultivate cordial relations with local potentates, too.
Suddenly, a new national debate is beginning about the national security, economic and other implications of Persian Gulf potentates using their petrodollars to buy up strategic American assets.
Four years later, following a string of scandals involving Swiss accounts held by corrupt foreign potentates, bankers were given the right, although they were not forced, to report dodgy clients.
They run the gamut from government investment funds, state-owned companies and central banks to wealthy individuals like members of the Saudi royal family and even private companies owned by Arab potentates.
Having interviewed News Corp potentates from the Murdochs down, having heard from victims and private detectives and a vast array of interested parties, the committee is apparently deadlocked over its conclusions.
Opportunism, in a word, is what has guided policy, along with heaps of cash and ambition mixed with a mild appetite for risk that stands in contrast to other more shy-mannered Gulf potentates.
The effect of such an oil spike would be to line the pockets of OPEC nations (and U.S. wildcatters and Russian potentates) with greenbacks while applying a brake to any nascent growth in the world economy.
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