potentate

How To Use potentate In A Sentence

• Chiefly, such activities were processional - arrivals of ambassadors and potentates, with plebeian doings relegated to the wings.
• I recall focus groups in the last couple of weeks before election 2000, after the debates, when these swing voters were being fêted like visiting potentates by the networks.
• Lumps of capital investment from surprising places will also be discerned: the national investment portfolios of oil states, the capital-flight of third world potentates on the take.
• Elected officials come and go, but the military potentates, policies and budgets go on and on.
• Commend an ambitious man, some proud prince or potentate, si plus aequo laudetur (saith [1954] Erasmus) cristas erigit, exuit hominem, Deum se putat, he sets up his crest, and will be no longer a man but a God. Anatomy of Melancholy
• But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter! Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
• Marco Polo, like many Europeans after him, remarked on the curious fact that local potentates wore minimal clothing with loads of jewellery.
• As far as he was concerned she was a visiting potentate; he was afraid of making a mistake. GALILEE
• No potentate ever nurtured their children more gently than a pachyderm fondles its young.
• Chiefs and rajas, sultans and potentates succumbed to western authority with no apparent regret on the part of their subjects.