Translation for 'potentate' from English to Icelandic

potentate

pótintáti {k}

• Other religious kings, such as the 16th century Mongol potentate "Altan Khan", invited Buddhist teachers to their realm and proclaimed Buddhism as the official creed of the land in order to help unify their people and consolidate their rule.
• A force called "qut" was believed to emanate from this mountain, granting the local potentate the divine right to rule all the Turkic tribes.
• The "Quedagh Merchant" carries Lord Fallsworth, the King's ambassador to the Grand Mughal, his daughter Lady Anne Dunstan, and a chest of treasure from the Indian potentate to King William.
• -pati/ ('progeny-potentate') is etymologically equivalent to that of the oracular god at Colophon (according to Makrobios), namely /prōtogonos/.
• He was the first potentate of Los Angeles's Al Malaikah Temple of the Order of the Shrine, and it was he who suggested the name for the temple, meaning "The Angels."

• Historical theory claims one ruthless potentate who controlled the city of Mosul in the 13th century ordered an early Yazidi saint executed.
• Some scholars have speculated that the "foreign potentate" who wrote the missing letter was Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, whose foreign policy was controversial in Britain.
• Esclua was a clergyman from Cerdanya who must have been a potentate from that region.
• Steers was a Shriner, and in 1956 he served as potentate of the Murat Shrine Temple in Indianapolis.
• Hungarian word "gazda" = "potentate", "rich landowner" is borrowed from the language of Southern Slavs who inhabited today's Hungary before the arrival of the Hungarians, aka Magyars, to Europe.

• The potentate, as the senior chief, had the privilege of installing the sultan, and was himself installed by sultans.
• In 1899, "The Successful American" magazine recognized the Arlington Hotel as "one of the foremost hotels of the country" and wrote that the hotel had "sheltered every preeminent American for years and has been the temporary home of every potentate" visiting Washington, D.C.
• John Montaine, who claimed to be an African potentate.
• In particular, anti-military songs like "King of Prussia, great potentate / we are so tired of your rule" were in conflict with the ruling party line.
• In "Nea Nae", the eponymous protagonist is a boorish and thick potentate, always on the hunt for "beastly erotic pleasures" (Călinescu), sometimes accompanied by thinly disguised political figures of the interwar.

• By extension, the word has been used in English to designate a particularly powerful government official or potentate.
• In 1802, the potentate of Walachia, Skarlatos Kallimachis, sent him to Paris for political issues.
• A throne is a seat of state for a potentate or dignitary.
• Hailu Tekle Haymanot was an independent-minded potentate who, throughout his life, was mistrustful of and mistrusted by the Emperor.
• The invasion of the realms of Bednore and Soonda by the Muslim forces of Tipu Sultan created the new potentate of Khodadad by seizing the throne of the Maharajas of Mysore.