0 a ruler who has a lot of power, especially one whose power is not limited, for example by the existence of a parliament
Yes, they will, at least so far as the probabilities of the potentate's continuing to be generous look pretty good.
And he suggests that it does not matter by his lights that this access is dependent on the whim of someone like our potentate.
The latter were already condemned in 1739 as morally corrupt, vain petty potentates who squandered what little credit and resources they possessed on indigent luxury.
Pettit's example of a powerful figure is an 'oil-rich potentate' who whimsically spends his fortune on giving people what they want.
Falrad, as much a warlord and a feudal potentate as an abbot, forcibly tried to extricate his abbey from the jurisdiction of the local bishops.
Let them keep the potentate and his coterie sweet + let them adopt suitable postures of abasement and ingratiation + and they can give their future a very bright, functioning complexion.
By virtue of what inherent qualities was this potentate endowed with this mass of coupons?
There are, however, other potentates who roam about the country from whom the threat is great.
