Often a symbol and reflection of French political power, the cathedral was vandalized through the French Revolution while Napoleon Bonaparte used it to reinstate monarchic rule with his coronation as Emperor.
Other powerful men thought the same way. Some were officials elected or appointed to serve in the federal government. Political power blinded them to their responsibility to be honest and fair to the public.
As Professor Sanford Levinson notes in his book on monuments, quote, “those with political power within a given society organize public space to convey (and thus to teach the public) desired political lessons.”
At a time when Genghis Khan's Mongols were advancing into Central Asia and Europe and the Crusades were being fought in Palestine, Guge was a flourishing centre of commerce, art, religion and political power.
In the Kamakura Period between 1185 and 1333, a new military government was founded after the samurai were organized into groups by warlords that had some political power and took over from the weak Imperial Court.
While Mexican women have advanced to positions of political power in public life — in part because of required representation quotas for public office — women suffer from high levels of gender violence.
The man who introduced the word petro-dollars into our vocabulary, and who helped bring about one of the most dramatic shifts of international economic and political power in this century.
Expensive luxurious vacations to distant places, accumulating an excessive amount of money and possessions, or acquiring power through politics will not lead us to satisfaction in the long run.
He seemed to believe that there was a chief rabbi somewhere in the United States who could get the prisoner released and who had all kinds of political power.