Has Erdogan's image as an omnipotent leader taken a hit?
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Yet none has been able to supplant an omnipotent Likud.
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They remained a mystery, as anonymous as they were omnipotent.
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Even if it were omniscient, the board is not omnipotent.
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Fake views Have you ever felt like Google is omnipotent?
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And in that afterlife, Dodge reigns supreme, an omnipotent god.
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Much worse: we created a perfectly reasonable, omnipresent and omnipotent God.
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As a result, Mr. Macron appears both omnipotent and terribly lonely.
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Or maybe he was just some sort of omnipotent business tycoon?
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This complex, omnipotent algorithm was supposed to be Clinton's saving grace.
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This now public capability bolsters his image as omnipotent and omnipresent.
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He's practically omnipotent yet constantly frustrated by failing to achieve his goals.
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Everything is run by nigh-omnipotent and mostly benevolent AI philosopher-kings.
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However, as knowledgeable as a teacher can be, no one is omnipotent.
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Is that too much to ask of an omnipotent, infinitely loving Being?
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It's a dream of entering the mind of a huge, omnipotent being.
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But I don't worship an all-powerful, all-controlling omnipotent, omniscient being.
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Along with its reputation for independence, the Fed can seem economically omnipotent.
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I would worship Baja Blast if it were a living, omnipotent entity.
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There will be no single omnipotent cybersecurity fix for the internet of things.
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The artist isn't an omnipotent auteur, but a co-narrator of the story.
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So how do we reconcile an omnipotent, omniscient God with evil and suffering?
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" Regardless of the facts, "Big Brother is omnipotent" and "the Party is infallible.
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The Omnipotent Oom, as Mr. Bernard was known, eventually sold his sprawling estate.
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The advantage of this gluttonous approach is an omnipotent level of creative control.
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"The intelligence services are seen as omnipotent," said Berda in an interview with Vox.
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An omnipotent data infrastructure and knowledge-sharing tech organization has spread across the planet.
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Some people are comforted by idea of an unknown omnipotent force hovering out there.
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It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
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She holds a fin in each hand, in an apparent show of omnipotent flexibility.
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Another hacker, who goes by Omnipotent, announced the hack in another forum called Raidforums.
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M.B.Z. was hiding in his father's shadow, absent and omnipotent at the same time.
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Joyce is the omnipotent adhesive that connects the record's many moods and sounds and experiences.
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This is a record about coping with omnipotent chaos and making sense of the senseless.
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Unfortunately, wedding planners aren't omnipotent and things do go wrong when they're at the helm.
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It stars a nigh-omnipotent hero struggling with the real-world consequences of his actions.
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Cities are built by committees and planning commissions and property developers, not by omnipotent mayors.
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The cataclysmic nature of the storm had dwarfed even his omnipotent presence in American life.
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When he can edit and modify with no limitations he is—sonically at least—omnipotent.
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Then, just as suddenly, she vanished, hounded into exile by Hollywood's most omnipotent men. Why?
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But even that last-ditch effort wasn't enough — a sign that Trump's influence isn't omnipotent.
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Heaven is boring, even for an omnipotent being like Doctor Manhattan, who has transcended humanity.
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Santa might be an omnipotent spy, but he's also associated with generosity, kindness, warmth, family.
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It just seemed like there must be some omnipotent, mannerless menswear god behind the keyboard.
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The conspiracy is always so many steps ahead of them as to effectively be omnipotent.
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Between these two omnipotent managers, they don't even need a third fate to help them out.
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For Trump, as omnipotent as he may now feel, also finds himself in a difficult world.
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The once omnipotent commissioner leaves his post after a stormy six-year tenure at the commission.
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So even though he's an omnipotent being, he still lives by the code of the streets.
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On the other hand, Bezos is not concerned that some omnipotent artificial intelligence will conquer humans.
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How can we view nature as omnipotent when we're terraforming it to be inhospitable to life?
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The answer was all of the above; the party is omnipotent, our leader in all arenas.
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Two weeks later, the omnipotent Chechen leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, delivered the child to his mother.
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Mr. Wednesday was eventually revealed to be no less than Odin, the omnipotent Norse all-father.
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You are omnipotent because you are so deep inside the groove you might have been born there.
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Price was nearly omnipotent, and reportedly chose not into invest in some highly successful female-led shows.
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Never has the omnipotent power of human civilization seemed closer to completely coming apart at the seams.
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In the mêlée of vacuums on the market today, one omnipotent appliance seems to have gotten lost.
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Granted, authority over education is split between the centre and the states, so Mr Modi is not omnipotent.
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Most bosses love China's state-run model when it involves them getting privileged access to its omnipotent leaders.
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Omnipotent security systems, which could potentially turn students' every action into "evidence," is clearly a closely related issue.
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Economists who have withdrawn into the dreamworld of well-functioning and almost omnipotent markets face a ruder awakening.
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The Fargo universe has good guys who are just as omnipotent as they are competent, often, so whatever.
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This trendy minimalist approach extends to her backdrop, which with a few simple lines evokes the omnipotent iPhone.
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In House of Cards' view, Clinton was a failure because he couldn't somehow elevate himself to omnipotent godhood.
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For years, he's beared the brunt of a omnipotent Kremlin, facing repeated arrests and convictions, and multiple suspended sentences.
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Without spoiling anything, John's story is about rejecting the omnipotent values of a post-modern and highly misguided society.
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He was a successful marshall in the army of France's then almost omnipotent kingmaker, the self-styled Emperor Napoleon.
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Up until this point, you're aware that Gaunter O'Dimm is powerful, but not quite sure how omnipotent he is.
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He is unrepentant about the murder and almost omnipotent, able to foresee a car crash or an imminent coronary.
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But the writers are the closest thing "The Walking Dead" has to an omnipotent being, and they're malevolent rulers.
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A laser-eyed, seemingly omnipotent George Takei currently plays a role once held by an offensive Spanglish-speaking chihuahua.
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The comic book might tell us more: While Jon is essentially omnipotent, he also possesses a type of omniscience.
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This omnipotent score is designed not only to measure an individual's reliability on financial matters but also their overall trustworthiness.
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Mr. Mbiti insisted, for example, that African cosmologies ultimately align with Christian views of God as omnipotent, omnipresent and eternal.
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Grindr, in humanoid form, is a reminder of something important—that behind seemingly omnipotent technologies are people, ideas and code.
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Households save their higher incomes in expectation of offsetting future tax rises; omnipotent central banks cancel out the stimulative effects.
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As soon as he collects all the Infinity Stones and becomes omnipotent, he kills half the people in the Universe.
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The virtually omnipotent Kilgrave stalks Jessica through 13 episodes, orchestrating elaborate nightmare scenarios and murdering whenever the whim strikes him.
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Without the omnipotent Mr. Ailes in charge, Fox News could quickly lose its focus and become less of a juggernaut.
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" Ms. Meili describes the fantasies of invulnerability that brought her to the park to run: "I was indestructible, omnipotent. Comfortable.
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Gazidis is right to believe that the era of the omnipotent manager, overseeing every aspect of the club, is over.
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The core idea of decentralisation is that the operation of a service is not blindly trusted to any single omnipotent company.
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On the Rift, these all play with VR's sense of physical space, making you the omnipotent god of some tiny battlefield.
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Not long ago Eduardo Cunha (pictured), who belongs to Mr Temer's centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), seemed omnipotent.
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But it's not just that her voice carries some criteria of sexiness; there's something omnipotent about it in Her — and elsewhere.
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Part of Donald Trump's campaign messaging has been to present himself as a kind of superhero, an omnipotent fixer of things.
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The actress starred in a slew of sci-fi roles that allowed her to delve deep into the relationship between a woman and her body and her consciousness: she was an AI turned omnipotent being in Her, a lonely alien turned carnivorous sexpot in Under The Skin, and a drug mule turned omnipotent being in Lucy.
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Other characters include the Rainbow King, an omnipotent wizard who is "also lovable and fallible, like a cute grandpa," Mr. Borkson said.
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The end of Job involves God telling Job that, as a mere human, he couldn't possibly understand beings of such omnipotent power.
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In China, many had hoped the supposedly omnipresent and omnipotent state would come to their rescue in times of crisis like this.
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Most of the time, the camera hovers above the action, privileging the viewer as an omnipotent being with a high vantage point.
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On the other hand, we have already constructed an omniscient, omnipotent, deathless A.I. that holds all of our fates in its power: God.
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Despite its portrayal in spy movies as an omnipotent global police force, Interpol has no powers to investigate crimes or to make arrests.
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In England, french fries are chips and biscuits are lorries and everyone is ruled by a baby and her adorable omnipotent great-grandson George.
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The ever expanding surveillance state is a threat to our freedom and some within these agencies think they are omnipotent and above the law.
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"Humans are like Elohim (angels) in that they are immortal and practically omnipotent over the things they created in their image," the redditor writes.
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Trump really seemed to believe that the presidency was essentially omnipotent, and that, once inaugurated, he could mow over all obstacles to unfettered rule.
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"It took a long time for them to get the omnipotent power that they did in 22018," said State Representative Chris Taylor of Wisconsin.
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The legions team up to fight Thanos, an interstellar tyrant on a mission to collect the six Infinity Stones, which will make him omnipotent.
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Turkey's once omnipotent generals, and now Mr. Erdogan, have manipulated those fears to justify the oppression of their own citizens and consolidate their grip.
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It's a story about what would happen if a real-life omnipotent superhero, like Superman was living on Earth with the rest of us.
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Until Dawn makes you an omnipotent director of its small cinematic world, and that's interesting enough to come back to all these years later.
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It's his Red Legion that takes the near-omnipotent planet-sized Traveler hostage, robbing all Guardians of their powers and forcing you to start anew.
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"You know, he's presented himself as this guy who's omnipotent when it comes to investments and clearly he's made money, he's lost money," Johnson said.
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And there's this company called Wyrmwood that does incredible work in the space, and they created the stat block of Shaggy as an omnipotent creature.
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The creatures seem virtually all-hearing and omnipotent in early scenes, but as the film progresses, they devolve into more conventional and less dangerous enemies.
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The omnipotent smart house of the future still remains a few steps from reality, though Amazon's move here is probably a needed step toward it.
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How many came from a generation that used to call it, in hushed tones, the "c-word," as if it were a mystical, omnipotent force?
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Global rate-setters' omnipotent status has less to do with firefighting and more to do with conquering the soaring inflation of the 1970s and '80s.
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The peculiar mating rituals, the doomed drones who wait all their lives for a single sexual encounter with an omnipotent queen, leading to immediate death.
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Was there ever a time when Americans believed their elected officials to be benevolent and omnipotent and their journalists to be objective and omniscient beings?
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No individual or political party is so omnipotent and all-knowing that they negate the need for human agency, ingenuity and constant trial-and-error.
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It can be frightening for adult children to acknowledge that our onetime omnipotent caretakers are now too ill or too frail to care for themselves.
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The recent spike in Japanese yields has shaken investor faith in omnipotent central bankers, while the horn is blowing "Going Home" on the hunt for yield.
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In the heart-wrenching online pleas for help from patients and hospitals, they see past the facade of an omnipotent government that can get anything done.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Putin, the master manipulator, knows a bully's ways and sees how he can exploit Mr. Trump's desire to be an omnipotent ruler like himself.
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Now is the time to wonder whether we're all in one big video game, and the omnipotent players are having a hearty laugh at our expense.
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Republicans have been so omnipotent that, for years, they've been dispatching their own grassroots volunteers to other states at election time; they simply weren't needed in Texas.
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As in Robocop, the police department in Blood Drive serves the corporate overlords — specifically, the mysterious, omnipotent conglomerate Heart, which also, surreptitiously, runs the Blood Drive race.
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He's practically omnipotent: even if he can't see the future (and I'm pretty sure he can), he has perfect knowledge of all the mistakes of the past.
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In my makeup bag there's self-care, a kind of self-care that not only nourishes you but makes you omnipotent, even if just for a night.
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In the second episode, we see Veidt stage a play recreating the creation of Watchmen's omnipotent blue superhero Doctor Manhattan's creation starring his army of robot clones.
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The court's approach to the Cosby case was no different than any other in this respect: never let the jurors know they are, in a way, omnipotent.
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Having a decentralised yet omnipotent system like this means, in theory, that no bank need extract rent for transactions and no government monitor who is doing them.
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It's the nightmare scenario that many worried about: the US elects a president who uses the country's nearly omnipotent surveillance powers for his or her own gain.
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Along with nuclear weapons and missiles, cyber warfare was now one of North Korea's "omnipotent swords," Kim Jong Un said, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service.
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It's written from Steven's non-omnipotent point of view, though, which means there should be plenty of mysteries left unsolved for the show to reveal later on.
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Harrison calls these "signal omnipotent" sensors and says the idea is you'd only need one or two of these hubs plugged into a power outlet in your home.
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Or the character who exists across various alternate universes and timelines as a frustrated alien bureaucrat, an old-timey mobster, or an omnipotent flying dog with a sword.
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Right now, at least, that liquidity creates a sort of affinity between the strangers at our doors and the mysterious, seemingly omnipotent global forces that pushed them there.
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Yet for all the cultural moments he can still create via dance memes, it's evident that Toronto's favourite son isn't exactly the omnipotent force he used to be.
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Yet no amount of the love and care for you they return is enough to quiet that omnipotent doubt in your head, and you're getting tired, so tired.
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This system keeps the people in a state of psychological subjugation and atomizes society by separating individuals from each other, leaving them alone against the omnipotent party-state.
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Coeure said this could raise expectations for the ECB to control inflation up to the first decimal point and create an "absurd idea" of an omnipotent central bank.
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It's powered by the omnipotent Google Brain, which makes it by far the smartest of the voice assistants, and it's getting even better at being aware of context.
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Richard Niebuhr had a profound influence on her, teaching that God was omnipotent and immutable and that human understanding of him must therefore change over time and space.
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It allowed the internet to imagine, for a second, that the president was a sleepy grandpa who made errors, not an omnipotent narcissist with absolute control over their lives.
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They're omnipotent, with the ability to see and hear everything their victims do, find them anywhere, pop up out of thin air, discover any secret, and ruin any life.
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That view is particularly pronounced among charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, a subset of evangelicalism that puts special emphasis on prophecies, believing that God is omnipotent, immanent and extremely active.
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But members of Congress questioned him as if he were an omnipotent politician capable of addressing all sorts of issues that fell beyond the normal duties of central banking.
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Of course, she was not omnipotent at all: just a petite, smiling, lively young woman who translated, and then read faithfully in faultless American-English, the scripts she was given.
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"This wondrous collection of waters," he declared in "A dissertation on the use of seawater in the diseases of the glands", his unlikely bestseller, "performs the will of the omnipotent".
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He had just emerged from the murky shadows of The Black Album, a creation he withdrew a week after release because he was convinced it was an evil, omnipotent force.
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In the end, the draft withdrawal agreement creates a complex matrix of mechanisms for arbitration and dispute settlement in which the ECJ has a big say but is not omnipotent.
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ABC ends its Tuesday nights with the new dramedy Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, which stars Jason Ritter as a man tasked by a mysterious omnipotent being to save humanity.
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Even though he ends up not saying much of anything before deciding at random whose head he'll bash in, the setup is strong enough to make Negan look near omnipotent.
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"The essential psychic process underlying survivor guilt is self-blame, which is a defensive omnipotent phantasy," wrote the British psychotherapist Dr. Alfred Garwood in a 1996 study of Holocaust survivors.
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Ask the Golden State Warriors, who after waltzing their way to a record 73 wins in the regular season were brick-walled by an omnipotent James in the NBA finals.
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You won't believe a man can fly if he can't walk from A to B. A world driven mad by an omnipotent machine doesn't work without a bedrock of sanity.
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A local — and possibly political — solution lacks the imaginary tidiness of America swooping in, omniscient and omnipotent, with an explosive military intervention in which Washington bombs it all nice again.
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If the coverage continues to highlight views of the angriest among us, portray them as if they are more omnipotent than is really the case, that perception might take further hold.
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Separation of powers The notion that the president is not omnipotent -- and that no one is above the law -- is the most basic of principles in the American system of government.
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So, with only slight assists from my thumbs on things like punctuation and sentence starters, here are the reviews of Kanye West's discography, as determined by our omnipotent overlords at Apple.
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Add to that the accusations by European politicians that Moscow influenced Brexit, Catalan separatism and elections everywhere from France to Malta: Mr. Putin's core voters feel proud of their omnipotent leader.
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But most of what precedes and follows it — as Yank combs New York to seek out Mildred, who turns out to be the daughter of an omnipotent steel magnate — is choice.
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How she consolidated and maintained her power, adroitly shaping her image as the serene, omnipotent Virgin Queen, is the focus of Hilton's ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy.
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When Dave Eggers published The Circle in 2013, critics thought the novel's hyperbolic message about an omnipotent tech company would open the world's eyes to the harms of Silicon Valley's growing power.
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While this is perceived as a negative trait of cash by central banks and governments, many individuals perceive cash as a safety valve that empowers citizens against an omnipotent central bank and government.
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His particular mix of business and politics looks less like an omnipotent fusion of government and corporation than a petty kleptocracy, bent on filling overpriced hotel rooms and personally enriching some fellow billionaires.
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Erdogan seeks to become an omnipotent autocrat protected by popular support and a veneer of democracy -- something along the lines of what President Vladimir Putin has achieved in Russia as an elected dictator.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't turn you into an all-seeing, all-knowing omnipotent being, but it does give you quick and easy access to some of the key parts of the Windows operating system.
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"Today, the manager is not omniscient and not omnipotent," said Sandy Alderson, the Mets' general manager, who has watched the position change since his days as an Oakland Athletics executive in the 1980s.
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Full disclosure: I am not a biologist with the breadth of knowledge to understand what the logistics of a human woman like Angela having children with an omnipotent being like Jon would entail.
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Mr. Mueller is often portrayed as the omnipotent fact-gatherer, but it is Mr. Goldstein who has a much more involved, day-to-day role in one of the central lines of investigation.
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Still, if we're ever really going to get to the semi-omnipotent Star Trek computer we all dream about, the ability to listen while talking is something all digital assistants will need to learn.
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Each one alludes to a lingam and to a yoni, which are, respectively, in Hindu art, stylized representations of the omnipotent, masculine deity Shiva and of Shakti, a goddess embodying divine feminine creative power.
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The other reason why we can't simply crown Apple as the omnipotent creator of everything good about the iPhone is that this device is the indirect product of many other companies' successes and failures.
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Let me explain: if you become omnipotent implies the dissolution of consciousness, how can the singularity in question have tried (I seemed to understand) suffering for his state of alienation and deprivation interactive intelligence?
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Add a cacophony of news about data breaches that have shaken the U.S. government, taken entire hospital systems hostage, and defrauded the international banking system, and hackers start to sound like omnipotent super-villains.
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Instead it was and is an omnipotent force that surrounds me, like gravity or time, that is unexplainable (physics not my strong suit), affecting my life while remaining outside of my grasp and control.
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The travellers mine the mountain for the riches in its caves, and in doing so disrupt the omnipotent spirit at its core, a godlike beast which had previously remained at peace with the local community.
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There's definitely an element of 'Big Brother' eerie omnipotent surveillance to this, but it's also likely a key step in getting things like automated or at least semi-automated city-based transportation networks in place.
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"Now, the president's not omnipotent, but if the market starts to get slammed, it helps to have a commander in chief who's willing to change policy to get the averages moving higher again," Cramer said.
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What is disturbing with the "blame Putin" stance endorsed by serious Western politicians, analysts and news media outlets is that it makes the Russian leader appear omnipotent while making the rest of us seem impotent.
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Alex: Doctor Manhattan is basically a god, and when we think about gods or God, it's often an immortal being that's omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient — an all-powerful figure who's present everywhere and knows everything.
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Marlowe seems to be more interested in the role of ordinary people (like the lowly agitator Jack Cade) than he does in that of omnipotent monarchs; Shakespeare preferred the grand "stories of the death of kings".
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As they contemplate this latest trauma—the rejection by voters and collapse of a health-care reform that was for years their most fervent ambition—Republicans, omnipotent but unloved, need to reflect on why that is.
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While the US still lags behind China in the race to erect an invasive, omnipotent surveillance structure, the spirit of targeted surveillance is still intact here—it's just targeted (for now) at minorities and non-citizens.
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It was simple, but now Facebook is creating new features that will make content creators less dependent upon them as a simple social platform, and more dependent upon them as an omnipotent platform for all humans.
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While Putin strives to generate the appearance of an omnipotent czar, which is often blindly accepted in the West, the truth is that his authoritarian system of governance fundamentally depends on the loyalty of his cronies.
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" In it, there exists a powerful computer that evolves until it is so omnipotent, and so invisible, that "the question of its size and Nature no longer had meaning to any terms that Man could comprehend.
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While Jon's identity as Cal caught me and likely my fellow viewers by surprise, the show gave us some major hints in previous episodes that the comic's omnipotent blue being was masquerading as Angela's amnesiac husband.
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His book, "Omnipotent Government", published in 1944, the same year as Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom", is a thorough analysis of the collapse of liberal ideas in Germany and the rise of nationalism, which led to Nazism.
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There's no omnipotent trans lobby bending Big Cis to its will, but the fact that media outlets, even mainstream ones like CBS News and CNN, were quick to further that narrative is, at the very least, concerning.
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But the idea that Trump knew nothing -- about Russia attempts to infiltrate his campaign, about hush payments or other key aspects of cases in which is involved -- appears unlikely, given his omnipotent role in his inner circle.
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Just once, I wish that a movie studio would put its thirst for the almighty dollar aside and listen to the very same teenagers' voices it's pretending are omnipotent in series like The Hunger Games and Divergent.
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"I've spent my entire life falling asleep while begging any theoretical omnipotent beings to let me wake up in the body I need to feel comfortable, and, [in May], that was finally going to happen," Jones said.
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Perhaps the greatest risk to humanity when it comes to machines isn't an omnipotent AI, but that, like Bowen's flies, we become oblivious to the critical software working in the background of our lives—and thus, powerless.
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Most commonly, inshallah is used in Muslim-majority communities to escape introspection, hard work and strategic planning and instead outsource such responsibilities to an omnipotent being, who somehow, at some time, will intervene and fix our collective problems.
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This is not a revolution against an omnipotent, malicious king; it is a revolution against the perception that all elites — government, media, business, educational, religious — are rigging the system for themselves at the expense of everyone else; 28.
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It's complicated, of course, for many of the Catholic victims were boys, but there does seem to have been an element of elevating male clergy members on a pedestal in a way that made them omnipotent and unaccountable.
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It's not absurd to see Disney as an underdog that lacks resources to make their multi-billion-dollar dreams come true, rather than a near-omnipotent conglomeration just opting not to spend $65 billion in cash on new properties.
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There's just something about going into a room with a complete stranger (who somehow feels like the omnipotent arbiter of your future) and feeling like you have to prove yourself and your capacity in a limited amount of time.
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"To many people in Buffalo, Judge Curtin had become an omnipotent authority figure, a man with the power to bless or befoul the community at his choosing," Mark Goldman wrote in "City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York" (2007).
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Ocwen's lawyers at Goodwin Procter moved to dismiss the case, arguing, among other things, that the CFPB's structure is unconstitutional because its omnipotent director can only be fired for good cause, allegedly in violation of separation of powers doctrine.
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The argument was that it wouldn't make sense for an omnipotent being who could easily change his shape and size would to be preoccupied with having the biggest penis on earth if he didn't care about being human anymore.
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No, instead, Hotz says he's tortured by the possibility that all of us are in an advanced simulation observed by either an omnipotent extraterrestrial or supernatural being, or an artificial intelligence far beyond the realm of human conception and understanding.
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Ron Meyer, vice chairman of NBCUniversal and a co-founder of the omnipotent Creative Artists' Agency (CAA), has filed a $192019 million lawsuit in California Superior Court against two art dealers who allegedly sold him a fake Mark Rothko painting.
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It's different than other Android phones, because it's the first handset centered around the company's artificial intelligence—the same omnipotent intelligence that's vacuuming up information about you every time you use a service like Gmail, Google Maps, or Google Calendar.
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In telling the story of a distant future where the patriarchy has gone unchecked and become omnipotent, and nonconforming women are sent to the hellish, galactic prison in the title, Bitch Planet destroys any notion that society treats women fairly.
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In telling the story of a distant future where the patriarchy has gone unchecked and become omnipotent, and where nonconforming women are sent to the hellish galactic prison in the title, Bitch Planet destroys any notion that society treats women fairly.
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Lutz, who said he's known Ghosn for a number of years, said the embattled executive suffers from a "god complex" as well as "CEO disease," where a person believes they are omnipotent and "above the law" because of their power.
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A recent test by Ericsson, Qualcomm, and other companies helped cars merge smoothly and safely onto a highway, not just by communicating with one another but by taking orders from a central control system that worked like an omnipotent traffic cop.
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Conspiracy theories have become so normalized in the latter half of the 2010s that the most publicized ones involve things like a secret network of omnipotent celebrities, a child sex ring run by Democratic politicians, or the earth being literally flat.
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"When the police deem themselves to be omnipotent, they are emboldened and more killings ensue; the duty to protect the people is thrown out the window," the senators said in their report, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Friday.
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If you think of the internet as a bunch of wires, instead of as a kind of omnipotent cloud-like thing, the reason for this is quite obvious: the closer you are to your content, physically, the faster you will get it.
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It got so bad that Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney, used the lack of succession planning in a public attack on Mr. Eisner, who was so successful early in his tenure that he began to see himself as omnipotent.
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Until now, he's tackled ensemble roles on award-winning shows: Dinesh, the romantically-challenged software engineer tormented by Gilfoyle, a practicing Satanist, on "Silicon Valley" (HBO), and Prismo, an omnipotent wish-granter with a pinkish, 2-D body on "Adventure Time" (Cartoon Network).
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After all, in the movie right before Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Steve Rogers's most notable moment was when he tells the sentient, near-omnipotent android Vision that Avengers don't "trade lives" — that he won't let Vision die in order to stop Thanos.
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After all, even the most hardened of New Atheists would be forced to give pause and rethink a thing or two after being confronted with the incontrovertible evidence of an omnipotent higher being that has, just this past week, been delivered unto mankind.
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Earlier this week, Apple — which just months ago became the first company to reach a $1 trillion market cap — was worth less than Microsoft, the once-omnipotent tech giant that supposedly "lost" the consumer market to Apple under the tenure of former CEO Steve Ballmer.
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As I'm sure your husband has explained to you at length, his faith that the universe was created by an omnipotent clump of spaghetti and meatballs was first proposed in 2005 by Bobby Henderson as an absurd, but equally plausible, alternative to ''intelligent design.
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As Isaac Hempstead-Wright has been telling us for a while, Bran is a very different character now that he's become the Three-Eyed Raven, and that apparently means making icky, omnipotent observations about the wonderful memory of Sansa being raped on her wedding night.
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The Biz were so omnipotent that Fred Durst once got on stage, alone, fucked up a guitar solo, then screamed "SHAG MY FRIENDS TONIGHT!" to rapturous applause as though he hadn't just foreseen the sounds of someone getting a really terrible Guitar Hero score.
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But any sense that he's no longer quite the omnipotent operator he was will embolden his enemies and, if the midterm elections go badly, may eventually weigh on the calculations of his GOP protectors in Washington, a town with a feral instinct for weakness.
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From a morally absolute vigilante who sees the world in black and white to an omnipotent yet apathetic God figure who questions what it means to be human, "Watchmen" possessed a political and philosophical depth that readers weren&apost familiar with in comic-book form.
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At their early 19903s peak, Soundgarden seemed so self-assured and omnipotent, it was easy to overlook many of their greatest songs were about feeling weak, lonely, and disillusioned—the cumulative weight of despair hanging over their catalog is more crushing than any of their riffs.
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Dorothy, or Everyman, wearing silver shoes—ruby in the 1939 film version—(Bryan's pro-silver stance) travels the yellow brick road (the gold standard), witnesses the oppressed munchkins (citizens), and discovers that the supposedly omnipotent Wizard (a president like McKinley) is nothing more than a fancy façade.
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Since Pakistan's creation in 1947, the tribal areas -- a rugged, impoverished swath bordering Afghanistan -- have been ruled directly by Islamabad under a harsh colonial-era system of law, with omnipotent political agents exercising the right to impose collective punishments on tribes and to jail suspects without trial.
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" Even the skeptic Benjamin Franklin, while disclaiming that the Convention's work was "divinely inspired," remarked that he could not conceive such a momentous achievement as framing "the new federal constitution" without it "being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent and beneficent Ruler.
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In The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man's attempt to inflict his will onto the rest of the world by virtue of his power and wealth, through the creation of borderline-omnipotent artificial intelligence, proves to be an act of hubris that almost destroys the world.
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Alan Perry and Richard Domenico's "The Gross Gloss" (2019-ongoing) for example, expanded upon Perry's online work "The Ambulatory" (2018-2019) by placing the latter's exploration of digital determinism into a beautifully illustrated leather-bound tome that preaches a gospel of mystical algorithms and omnipotent AIs.
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At the First House, each necromancer will strive to become a Lyctor, an immortal and borderline-omnipotent servant to the undying Emperor God — but to do so, they'll need their cavaliers' help to make it through a series of challenges of both necromancy and the sword.
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Cooper & Kirk contends in Wednesday's petition that its case is a better vehicle than Seila's for the Supreme Court to resolve what is, for all intents and purposes, a circuit split on the constitutionality of an agency headed by an omnipotent director insulated from presidential accountability.
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It turns out that, for years, Robert has forced these re-creations of his co-workers to role-play as characters in the Star Trek: The Original Series-esque setting of his favorite TV show, or face his omnipotent cruelty as the game master and Captain Kirk stand-in.
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In such a world, humans are barely needed to run security programs, their jobs largely automated out of existence, relegating them to a role as the button-pusher on particularly critical changes proposed by the otherwise omnipotent AI. Such a vision is still in the realm of science fiction.
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The author Michael Lewis once described syndication desks as an "omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous presence" on trading floors, but banks are working on new digital platforms to overhaul a process that has long consisted of phone calls, emails, instant messaging services and unwieldy spreadsheets to collect and collate the orders.
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Even as Fox News goes about broadcasting as usual, scoring its highest convention ratings in 20 years, interviews this week with network employees show an organization grappling with internal division after the abrupt exit of Roger Ailes, the once-omnipotent chairman at the center of a sexual harassment investigation.
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It ignores that the last decade and a half of U.S. foreign policy has been anything but tidy; that America is neither omniscient nor omnipotent; and that our military interventionism is too often reckless and counterproductive, creating more power vacuums and civilian suffering than it does anything resembling peace.
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I'm no expert at sexual relations with omnipotent beings, but telling someone you don't know what stimulates them anymore after attempting to have sex with them while splitting your consciousness into two different bodies most likely guarantees that they will never tell you what stimulates them ever again.
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The Watchmen graphic novel encompasses a variety of strange elements, ranging from an omnipotent blue man who prefers to be naked all the time to the power politics at play in the United States and Great Britain in the 1980s (which we've come to associate with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher).
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The omnipotent Dr. Manhattan — the sole superpowered being in this world — won the war in Vietnam, which is now the 51st state; the Cold War ended after the messianic villain Adrian Veidt detonated a psychic giant squid in Manhattan, killing millions but uniting the world against a fictitious alien threat.
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"The symbolic Putin is omnipotent, like St. George slaying the Western dragon, but the flesh-and-bones Putin is barely capable of solving Russians' everyday problems or preventing tragedies," Andrei Kolesnikov, an associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center, wrote in a commentary on Mr. Putin's continued popularity despite the economic slump.
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The gulf between what Mr. Putin says and what happens in Russia raises a fundamental question about the nature of his rule after more than 18 years at the pinnacle of an authoritarian system: Is Mr. Putin really the omnipotent leader whom his critics attack and his own propagandists promote?
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The book was a sharp-elbowed intervention in the decades-old debate between "totalitarian" historians, who saw in the Soviet Union an omnipotent state imposing its will on a defenseless populace, and "revisionist" historians, who saw a more dynamic and fluid society, with some portion of the population actually supporting the regime.
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If you cast the net wider, and abandon any pretense of self-curation, allowing yourself to be consumed by Google's omnipotent search mechanisms—catching every local freesheet along the way— you'll end up in an even stranger place, a place where no news is good news and all news is bad news.
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But would it be too far-fetched to propose that the story of our modern Santa Claus, the omnipotent man who travels the globe in one night, bearing gifts, and who's camped out in shopping malls across the United States this month, is linked to a hallucinogenic mushroom-eating shaman from the Arctic?
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The image of America in the world promoted by Obama was as a powerful but hardly omnipotent moral leader, which works to build multilateral institutions but accepts there are problems it cannot solve, that it cannot rid the world of tyranny, that it cannot end every civil conflict and defeat every terrorist.
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Don't you hate it when you're at your psychedelic office, just minding your own business at the water cooler, and your computers start sucking everyone through the screens and regurgitating them through the floors, and then the copier disassembles itself, and then everything shatters and implodes into the mouth of an omnipotent purple being?
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We can find it even if we don't believe the divine is a single omnipotent being in the sky, but that it lives in the smell of a wet forest, the daily dedication to a solitary run or a quiet meditation, and, this weekend, in the ringing laughter of friends and family gathered around a shared table.
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You're not viewing the action from the position of an omnipotent sky god like you are in Dota 2, sure, but Overwatch's focus is in how the unique skills of each of its 763 heroes can be used to kill, protect, and disrupt other players, rather than the simple twitch skills of shooting enemies in the head.
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At 66, I am maybe too old for a transformative travel experience, but thinking about where I have been (Greenland, Iceland, Kauai, 20 miles back into my home valley), I was reminded that if I got to pick one of those Godly powers — omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent — I would certainly pick the last one, because every place has been full of amazement and pleasure.
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The garishly dressed Bunny, played by Nikomeh Anderson, prances around in wedged pleather boots, an apron, and unfailing smile; Evil Queen Gregory, played by Matt Phillips, sports the ultimate DIY dominatrix gear; a stern-faced Crow, played by Anna Cain Bianco, is the play's omnipotent and foreboding soothsayer; and a simpleton, played by James Clements, amuses in overly-baggy sweaters and droopy eyes.
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Her decision on Monday to throw out the case shattered a longstanding government effort to portray the Bundy family members as violent extremists, but also undermined in many ways a core argument by Cliven Bundy, 71, and his sons that the federal government had become an omnipotent force of police power and that opponents to federal land policies would be crushed.
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This does not mean that we cannot use technology to enhance, intensify or prolong our lives, but as psychiatrists and psychologists teach us, to see humans as omnipotent and immortal is often a sign of serious diseases... To conclude, I would simply say that we should not underestimate the importance of the debate on the ethical, political and social purpose of the use of these technologies.
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To me it all made sense, and helped make sense of the ordinary world: Oz, posing as "the Great and Terrible," distant and omnipotent until he was unmasked as a "humbug"; the Wicked Witch of the West playing counterpoint with Glinda the Good; the tin man who needs a heart; the scarecrow who wants a brain — and Dorothy, suddenly transported from Kansas into a land of color, danger and excitement, setting forth with only her wits and her dog, Toto.
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" '"My Brilliant Friend": The HBO Adaptation Scrubs Off the Books' Girl-Power Sheen and Returns Them to the Gritty Streets of Naples' [Slate] At Slate, Willa Paskin argues that the series frees the material from the book series's reputation a rah-rah tale of female friendship: "Without shortchanging the bond between Lila and Lenù, the series makes it impossible to gloss over, block out, or ignore the particular environment in which the girls are born and raised: the grit and grime, the fear and the violence, the omnipresent, omnipotent machismo surrounding them.
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