Powerful men use shaken bones or ground-up herbs or sacrifice an animal to bring luck.
Very good looking women have for generations been marrying rich, titled or powerful men.
Others see a dark side to the presence around Estrada of these wealthy and powerful men.
That is not to excuse the boorish, thoughtless or vile activities of powerful men who should have known better.
He is widely believed to be one of the wealthiest and most politically powerful men in Iran.
No-one, of course, out-determined Mrs Thatcher, who had seen off many much more powerful men than me.
News was filtered through very few, limited sources -- and all of those were in the hands of powerful men.
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And yet he's routinely named one of the most powerful men in Washington.
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The stories of powerful men may be splashed across newspapers, but the truth is regular men get away with it, too.
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This is not the first report that the two most powerful men in Old Trafford do not have a close relationship.
As Bush's closest adviser, Rove has been considered by many to be one of the most powerful men in the United States.
If favors were called for, powerful men such as Stafford and the elder Ferrero were usually willing to help out a friend.
"Boris Berezovsky was one of the most powerful men in Russia back in the 1990s, " said the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg.
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But how many powerful men now take full responsibility for their actions?
Such historical nuances, between men and ideas, and powerful men and their equally impressive fathers, are critical but poorly understood by outside observers.
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This is the way that powerful men in this country spend their days: fielding requests for money (for funerals, for weddings) and adjudicating disputes.
Today, the Financial Times asked some business execs to comment on a new excuse for powerful men caught in uncomfortable positions: scapegoating the kids.
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Allen, a former welder and oilfield superintendent who came to Alaska from Texas and built a billion-dollar oilfield-services company, Veco Corporation, liked to be around other powerful men.
It is obvious now that many young lives were seriously damaged by powerful men who took advantage of the new freedoms and opportunities, exploiting their position without thought for their responsibilities.
From Wall Street to Main Street, the most powerful men in the American private sector are throwing their weight around and pressuring Congress on the fiscal cliff.
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Boys are often cast out as older and more powerful men take the younger women as wives, leading to young men without girlfriends or wives or any social prospects.
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But those same Democrats and supporting liberal organizations suddenly go from weak and negligible to powerful and cohesive when it comes to confronting DeLay, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
Somehow, Donatello transforms a traditional devotional form into a potent evocation of an individual, pointing the way to the vividly personal paintings and sculptures of demure women and powerful men in subsequent galleries.
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Bernie Schaeffer noted in his 2008 Market Forecast that the Federal Reserve was the major wild card this year, and we believe these very powerful men and women still hold the key.
Asked about what incentives push powerful men to become sexually deviant, given the recent accusations against former IMF director DSK, Levitt noted how hard it was to detect behaviors people are trying to hide.
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He knew they had the ear and the respect of the most powerful men not only in the Levee district, but the entire city: Big Jim Colosimo, Ike Bloom, Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink Kenna.
But this is as much a consequence of the cult of personality that the media has created around him as it is a result of the double standard applied to powerful men and less powerful women caught in flagrante delicto.
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Danielle Chiesi made a name for herself by building close personal (allegedly intimate) relationships with powerful men, in exchange for company secrets, which she then passed on to Raj Rajaratnam, the leader of what is being called the largest insider trader ring ever.
Now it's easy to say that the most powerful men at Penn State effectively provided Sandusky cover for his crimes, and in fact that is part of what former FBI Director Louis Freeh concludes in the investigation he carried out for Penn State's trustees.
So much of portraiture has to do with powerful people: powerful white men in powerful poses in big, powerful museums.
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