21.   Accustomed to absolute power, Mobutu quickly reneged on these arrangements, using the army to impose his own choice of prime minister.

22.   Absolute power corrupts.

23.   But Baptist presidents have almost absolute power to name committees that can ultimately decide who are named trustees of seminaries, mission boards, publishing houses and other agencies.

24.   But many Serbian politicians and international observers say they believe the opposition coalitions have a good chance of cutting into the absolute power of the ruling party.

25.   But like Francisco Franco, his most admired leader, after Napoleon and Thatcher, he gained absolute power.

26.   But like other Asian hoteliers, Thais are used to wielding absolute power over their companies.

27.   But this time, Mobutu, whose absolute power is under challenge by a military uprising, has little choice.

28.   But, with support from Russia, Lukashenko has since amassed near absolute powers, permitting little dissent or private enterprise.

29.   Cave believes the political equation today is too multifaceted for one faction to wield absolute power as white males did in the Old South.

30.   Democracy is not absolute power.