How To Use All-powerful In A Sentence
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So that means that for five of the last eight years, all-powerful, unelected leaders have ruled over us.
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Schools of occultism insist most strenuously on the deific and all-powerful nature of such beings.
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Would it not have been better for the remaining millions of British people if our all-powerful law machine had granted him a full pardon, together with an order never to set foot on British soil for the rest of his lifetime?
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Eventually, our turn came around, and Ciaran and I were presented with the all-powerful microphone.
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* This is the name theologians conventionally give to the contradiction between an all-powerful and beneficent God who nevertheless creates or allows evil to exist in the world.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Americans tend to think of the presidency as all-powerful, but much of its authority comes from the ability to convince the public to follow, and the same is sometimes true in diplomacy.
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Scholars have been aware for a long time of a certain “disconnect” between the version of God preached by Judaism and Christianity—an all-knowing, omnipresent, and all-powerful deity—and the way in which God is depicted in, especially, some of the earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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It assumes humans can abstract themselves from reality and go romping through history looking for the all-powerful distant cause that will explain each and every aspect of our current situation.
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He does not though, claim that the upper classes are all-powerful.
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Hollywood stars of the 30s were in awe of the all-powerful studio bosses.
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If the world really is controlled by a hidden all-powerful force of politicians and oil men, what chance have we got of changing things for the better?
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Any weakening in the all-powerful US economy could have a nasty flow-on effect.
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If he was all-powerful and all-good, he could prevent the suffering but didn't.
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Ruse sticks to the New Testament view of God as ‘an all-powerful creator who acts out of pure love’.
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In terms of intent -- how we're meant to read God -- I think you absolutely have to distinguish the immanent all-pervasive divinity of animism from the transcendant all-powerful divinity of monotheism.
Archive 2006-02-01
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The Senate of ancient Rome, another republic with imperial entanglements, entrusted war-making to a commander-in-chief, the imperator or emperor, whose office became all-powerful, hereditary, and its holder a living god.
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He expostulates, but Ginger stands firm, and, because her stylishness is all-powerful, he has to give in.
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Father, plead, ingratiate and abase yourself before your all-powerful children!
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The all-powerful mill owners were forced to grudgingly accept that their workers were entitled to an annual holiday.
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Given a 20-year sentence for his role as Hitler's all-powerful armaments minister, the former architect turned plenipotentiary probably deserved a death sentence.
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I recall the asperity with which this easy out (Kushner's "God is not all-powerful") was dismissed by Yehuda Bauer, the former head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, when I asked him about it in Jerusalem.
Disaster Ignites Debate: 'Was God In the Tsunami?'
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The manor was the medieval unit of local government, so its lord was locally all-powerful and his residence reflected his position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did it all hinge on the creation of an all-powerful executive council, hand-picked by Fontaine to circumvent the chiefs?
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Planning has assumed, in other words, an all-powerful and centralized top management that must pull things together and make things happen especially planning itself.
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
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At the same time, I feel, no one should be too over-awed by Famlio's own belief that they're all-powerful.
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“Therefore,” she said, “evil must be nothing, since He who is all-powerful cannot do it.”
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Others believe that the universe was created as a whole by a single all-powerful entity.
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Many observers pin the blame on the army, whose all-powerful generals are seeing their grip weaken.
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While the latter seem to isolate a single attribute -- all-goodness, all-lovingness, all-powerfulness -- and decide the issue on that basis alone, the former simply emphasize a single attribute but cling to a more complex composite of divine "character.
Sherman A. Jackson: The Problem of Suffering: Muslim Theological Reflections
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The Congolese singer Franco, backed by the all-powerful jazz orchestra of Kinshasa, unleashes irresistible soukous to commemorate a seventh wedding anniversary.
Readers recommend songs about anniversaries: The results
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Did it all hinge on the creation of an all-powerful executive council, hand-picked by Fontaine to circumvent the chiefs?
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Like many writers, Phillips bemoans the way in which the publishing industry is now dominated by a handful of all-powerful conglomerates.
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W: What was their name for that deity, and how was he differentiated from other all-powerful gods such as Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians?
The Common Origin of and Split Between Arabs and Jews - An Interview with Professor George E. Mendenhall
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Since this single, all-powerful Deity was now the final arbiter in all things, what was the point of scrutinizing the usual clues about the future?
In the Valley of the Shadow
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We have already identified one: The promise of security against economic hardship is highly attractive, so long as one can convince oneself that it is fulfillable and won’t turn the state into an all-powerful master.
A Conspectus of Today’s Democratic Party
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Silently, desperately, it is struggling against a new and all-powerful adversary, the civilization of the capitalist West.
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Women are simultaneously depicted by such structures as all-powerful and invisible.
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Through the fumes of a certain number of bottles and various glasses of various liquors, Giroudeau pointed out to Philippe a plump and agile little ballet-girl whom he called Florentine, whose good graces and affection, together with the box, belonged to him as the representative of an all-powerful journal.
The Two Brothers
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God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (present everywhere), omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniparient (the creator of everything).
OpEdNews
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Out West, all-powerful railroad interests dominated state governments and even owned several state legislatures outright.
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The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean
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But that emphatically did not mean all-powerful government.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we consider the deep spiritual context of the surrounding chapters in the Gospel of Matthew 21:12 to 22:45, we begin to understand that when Jesus instructs us to believe, he is referring to the all-powerful and benevolent nature of God and to our own effortless access to that essence.
The SOURCE of MIRACLES
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Democratic but not liberal, it had a constitutionally all-powerful president with limited effective power.
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The poor herdbeast, once all-powerful, now all alone, rejected by his kind.
The Ringworld Throne
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‘Death,’ wrote Washington, ‘was leveling my companions on every side of me; but, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected.’
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To a believer, God is all-powerful and the ultimate owner of the heavens and earth.
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The gods could, up to a point, be merciful; but it was fate that was all-powerful.
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But what Perceval has done is to physicalise Racine and to capture, in a confined setting, the all-powerful nature of erotic passion.
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He promised to demystify the all-powerful presidency and make it more accountable to congress and the voter.
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Most notable of all, he has, almost single-handed, tamed the once all-powerful military and established civilian supremacy in the government.
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I want to know how he did it; I want to know how he rose to such an all-powerful position and inspired the fanatical love and worship from so many of his followers.
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The country's all-powerful military, which has seized power in three coups since 1960, sees staunch secularism as a pillar of the state.
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Upon her arrival in 1862, she immediately clashes with the all-powerful ruler over his refusal to give her a house outside the Royal Palace in which to raise her young son.
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The motorcycle ace won a world title on the all-powerful Honda last year and then celebrated victory by signing for the all-powerless Yamaha.
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If cowpox-induced antibodies protected against smallpox—and if cowpox could be transferred directly from person to person—an all-powerful weapon against one of the most ruthless killers in history was suddenly at hand.
The Panic Virus
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The world being four-ended, thou, O cross, art represented by us, and as a three-edged sword dost thou cut off the principles of darkness, being the great weapon of Christ and an invincible and all-powerful victoriousness.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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And if God is not beneficent and all-powerful - well, what then of God's traditional identity, his essence?
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As for the constitutional argument, the assumption seems to be that the principle of legislative supremacy is all-powerful.
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They are big and scary and kind of bronzed, which pisses me off because I always wanted to be one of those people who tanned easily but instead am pasty or pink depending on the season and dammit, why do those all-powerful goddess labyrinth guardians have it so easy when they probably spend their entire lives down here in the dark where no one will even see them?
Archive 2006-12-01
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The manor was the medieval unit of local government, so its lord was locally all-powerful and his residence reflected his position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here is the all-powerful secretary of royal court.
The History of the Iranian People's Strugle for Freedom: Part III, The Era of The Benevolent Dictator
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How else can you describe an all-powerful king who goes so far as to let his creation choose whether to obey him or not?
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God is thus utterly transcendent, self-sufficient, and all-powerful.
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It seems to me that this presents a very wimpy view of what is supposed to be an omnipotent, all-powerful deity.
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“No one can doubt,” she said, “that God is all-powerful.”
In the Valley of the Shadow
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I mean, those things were not too hard for a magical all-powerful guy like you to conjure up.
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This provides a necessary bulwark against the danger of an all-powerful state invading the individual's liberty.
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The only place on the heath where the heather is not all-powerful is a low, stony ridge which crosses it.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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If she was so all-powerful, all-knowing, then how come her duties seemed to consist of serving the drinks?
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They portrayed the ruling capitalist class as all-powerful and able to exploit, manipulate and deceive workers at will.
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Accessible, emotive, the ultimate conveyor or distorter of truth, the photograph is all-powerful.
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The term "fascist" comes from the Italian word for bundle, fascio - the idea being that alone we're just weak little twigs, but bundled together by an all-powerful state, we become strong through collectivism.
Moonbattery
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She is the all-powerful source of satisfaction and frustration, happiness and sadness, love and hate.
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In one simple assertion, the “problem of evil” has its answer: all-powerful, inscrutable God creates everything, good and bad, justice and injustice alike.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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He had the opportunity to take the chairmanship of the all-powerful Urban Strategy and Governance committee.
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One all-powerful editrix-in-chief recently joined a gym and went once, never to return.
Times, Sunday Times
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The UK government should not become subservient to an all-powerful Frankfurt, just like local government has little power in the UK at the moment.
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Meanwhile, the Lib Dems will take single-handed control of the council's all-powerful executive after Labour and Tories rejected a power-sharing offer.
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He has been denied his crown and denounced by the all-powerful Roman Empire and when he finds a state to grant him refuge, Rome threatens war.
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In Peloponnesos the Primates were all-powerful, and Kolokotrónis the klepht was meditating a popular dictatorship at their expense.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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I didn't have to hear a near constant drone about our all-powerful cricketers.
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So that means that for five of the last eight years, all-powerful, unelected leaders have ruled over us.
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Many observers pin the blame on the army, whose all-powerful generals are seeing their grip weaken.
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In Lee's dystopian vision of the world of entertainment, television is all-powerful and all-corrupting.
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He promised to demystify the all-powerful presidency and make it more accountable to congress and the voter.
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At this time, basically all the cardinals and bishops, the senior positions in the curia, which is basically the government of the Vatican if you will, basically lose their jobs including the all-powerful secretary of state, number two until a few moments ago in the Vatican.
CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005
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The Eurosceptic view of an all-powerful European superstate is a figment of the imagination.
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Answer this, oh tinfoil-hat wearers: if Sen. Clinton is such an all-powerful, magnificently omnicompetent politician - why didn't she WIN the primaries?
Obama And Hillary Reach Deal On How To Conduct Convention
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Instead he rules by consensus of China's all-powerful nine-man standing committee of the Politburo.
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By 1987 the Tories were all-powerful, and people were speculating Labour would never hold power again.
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Silently, desperately, it is struggling against a new and all-powerful adversary, the civilization of the capitalist West.
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Superman is the all-powerful being whose only weakness is kryptonite.
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Are we witnessing the start of the demise of a once all-powerful, mighty beast?
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Such is the influence he exerts in US tennis that he is powerful enough even to challenge the all-powerful television schedulers.
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One of those elements is the story of an all-powerful race who tried to conquer and destroy Creation.
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The word means all-powerful, hence the Latin omnipotens, and was probably framed to counter the gnostic claim that a demiurge had created the visible universe.
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In the face of this all-powerful factor in every aspect of life, what do human beings or their little plans and desires count for?
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Women are simultaneously depicted by such structures as all-powerful and invisible.
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There was beauty in the sight, the soft eternal beauty of an unravished land, but over and above that was the suggestion that the travellers were fighting not merely against their kind but against the untrammelled forces of an all-powerful wilderness.
The Lost Valley
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This was particularly irksome because many of my companions were in possession of the all-powerful “Infinity” laminates, meaning that they are rather in charge of, you know, running the festival.
Bonnaroo 08 Saturday: Videotaping Pearl Jam, golf cart rides, and waiting for Kanye | EW.com
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She is the all-powerful source of satisfaction and frustration, happiness and sadness, love and hate.
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In them Arthur dwells in Cornwall, and not as in the others at Caerleon on the Usk. In them he appears with an individual character, hunting and taking a personal part in warfare, while in the more modern tales he is only an emperor all-powerful and impassive, a truly sluggard hero, around whom a pleiad of active heroes groups itself.
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. II.
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I do not think there are any good evidential or other reasons for belief in a supreme deity, much less a benign and all-powerful one.
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So began a message-board discussion on the website of Men's Health magazine, with debate on the all-powerful clothing label sprawling over several pages.
Julian Dunkerton: People just love the cut of his cloth |Observer profile
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By regularly invoking the false coequality of branches argument and its derivative checks and balances thesis, presidents intentionally spread the propaganda to safeguard an all-powerful presidency and executive branch.
Constitutional Rubbish
