However, Cenwalh allowed the British abbot, Bregored, to stay in power, a move perhaps intended as a show of good faith to the defeated Britons.

During the 14th century the Black Death killed many villagers and the abbot, and the village was repeatedly attacked from the sea, reducing the power of the abbey.

If there is no separate mensa abbatialis, the power of the commendatory abbot extends only over the temporal affairs of the monastery.

When Robert the Bruce invaded England, the abbot paid to lodge and support him, rather than risk losing the wealth and power of the abbey.

As the village began to grow in power it began to be mentioned as a separate entity from the rest of the abbatis cella ( meaning the cell ( i. e. estate ) of the abbot ).

With the Concordat of Bologna in 1516 overseen by Antoine Duprat, the king gained the power to appoint the abbot of Cluny.

His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

The demonstration of his power was never flamboyant or theatrical.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

It was apparent that Welch was in cahoots with Marshall and would use his power as D.A. to drag every possible sensation into the case.

At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.

The antenna patterns and the power gain at the peak of the beam were both measured ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958 ), so that the absolute power sensitivity of the antenna beam over the solid angle of the moon was known.

The power source was a commercial D. C. rectifier.

The rf power level was maintained small enough at all times to prevent obvious line shape distortions by saturation effects.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

For the first thirty years he did not effectively rule, ceding power to his paternal uncles, Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan and Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan.

In his Two Treatises of Government, John Locke argues ( against Robert Filmer ) that political and paternal power cannot be identified.

Agrippina and Livilla were exiled, and returned from exile only when their paternal uncle Claudius came to power after Caligula's assassination in 41 AD.

Femaleness is to be feared and reviled, and to a certain extent, the play works to excise femininity and restore autonomous male or paternal power.

In the end Bennett cast Stevens aside, rugged individualism seemed a pitiful response to the Depression, and the radical tone of Bennett's rendering of paternal conservatism was branded either as heresy or a cynical power grab ... In the epilogue, after racing through Tory leaders since Bennett, he states that with the election of Brian Mulroney, the old struggle between reaction and reform had taken an interesting twist.

The fundamental position of the work is that all legislative as well as all paternal power is derived from God, and that the authority of every law resolves itself into His.

First opinion-when Chitra Sing committed suicide, one of his sons fled away secretly and gathered power and thereafter rescued his paternal kingdom.

He was beheaded by Nang Keo Phimpha, his paternal aunt, in her successful attempt to seize power.

Through marriage to her paternal cousin, Laodice became Queen of Cappadocia who wielded considerable power.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

It is relatively easy to go a step further and reason that an attacker, in possession of such absolute power, would simultaneously destroy his opponent's cities and people.

The 2010 constitution grants the President almost absolute power.

Yisrael Gutman writes that it was in the concentration camps that Hitler's concept of absolute power came to fruition.

* There has been an absolute decrease in the percentage of people in developing countries living below $ 1 per day in east Asia ( adjusted for inflation and purchasing power ).

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Small could mean less than 3 dB below ( i. e., power output < 1 / 2 or voltage output < 0. 707 of ) the maximum value, or more rarely 10 dB below, or it could mean below a certain absolute value.

In his speech, Elihu argues for God's power, redemptive salvation, and absolute rightness in all his conduct.

This form of government differs from absolute monarchy in which an absolute monarch serves as the source of power in the state and is not legally bound by any constitution and has the powers to regulate his or her respective government.

In executive monarchies, the monarch wields significant ( though not absolute ) power.

The doctrine of Legalism that guided the Qin emphasized strict adherence to a legal code and the absolute power of the emperor.

In 2001, he ceded his absolute power over the government to an elected parliament of selected Tibetan exiles.

The spiritual teacher Meher Baba described dualism as consisting of the opposites of experience, which must become balanced before one can go beyond them: " Evolution from the standpoint of the Creator is a divine sport, in which the Unconditioned tests the infinitude of His absolute knowledge, power and bliss in the midst of all conditions.

A dictator is a ruler ( e. g. absolutist or autocratic ) who assumes sole and absolute power ( sometimes, but not always, with military control or bribes ) but not officially sanctioned by heritage, as in an absolute monarch.

In addition to exercising absolute political power, Domitian believed the Emperor's role encompassed every aspect of daily life, guiding the Roman people as a cultural and moral authority.

Roman dictators were allocated absolute power during times of emergency.

The most general term is despotism, a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power.

Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power.

According to Montesquieu, the difference between absolute monarchy and despotism is that in the case of the monarchy, a single person governs with absolute power by fixed and established laws, whereas a despot governs by her or his own will and caprice.