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Supreme Commander—Comandante Supremo / en jefemasculine
God, the supreme architect—Dios, el Sumo Hacedor
Homer remains supreme among poets—Homero sigue siendo el poeta supremo
You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
Most traditional African religions believe in one supreme being who acts through spirits and ancestors.
No one author is considered the supreme authority.
The concept of sovereignty - that national governments exercise supreme authority within their own borders - is the bedrock of global order.
Would you be willing, as supreme commander, to share intelligence with Bulgaria?
The federal courts have long recognized that when it comes to waging war, the President, not Congress or the courts, is the supreme authority.
I think the Supreme Court, and indeed the Indian constitution, should be the supreme authority over interpretation of laws.
Although still nominally subject to the eastern empire, Odoacer as a result became the supreme authority in Italy.
The army followed the Military Code, which allowed it a direct path of communication to the president as the supreme authority of the armed forces.
If you wish to attempt to do so, you must bear in mind that a dictator is a ruler having absolute authority and supreme jurisdiction over the government of a state.
The commanders in chief exercised supreme authority in their respective zones and acted in concert on questions affecting the whole country.
The 1945 Constitution stipulates that the President holds supreme authority over the Army, Navy and Air Force.
He retired as supreme commander of the German armed forces in 1911, but re-entered the army in 1914.
Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power.
In international law, dating from 1648, sovereignty is described as supreme authority over a territory, free from all external control.
It was also entirely possible, although I don't recall, that the president would also have to put his signature on a document as the supreme authority in the Niger regime.
Unity can be achieved only by maintaining a strict homogeneity of views or submission or subordination to a single authority, necessarily the supreme leader of the Communist Party.
The final third of the book is concerned with Ike's service as supreme commander.
All were open, written, sovereign authorizations by supreme authorities, and all employed a common medieval legal formula and language.
The boyars and their fortified towns submitted to Samuil's supreme authority.
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(extreme)
(effort)supremo
one of man's supreme achievements—uno de los mayores logros del hombre
with supreme indifference/courage—con la mayor / con suprema indiferencia/valentía
the supreme irony would be if …—el colmo de la ironía sería que …
I've always found it a matter of supreme irony that she shares my name.
The ground was drenched in rain and bombarded by hailstones until it resembled an ice-rink and it took a supreme effort from the ground staff to restrict the time loss to 90 minutes.
York is one of a small number of English cities of supreme importance precisely because of its heritage.
With a supreme effort of will, she forced herself to examine her surroundings through the haze of pain that threatened to pull her back to the shadows she had recently departed.
The players put in a supreme effort and all the mentors and club members can be justly proud of their achievements.
The supreme irony of this is that there was a journalist in that crowd!
This could be because their problems are all going on inside their heads or they have made a supreme effort to hide their condition.
Rochdale's engineers made a supreme effort to help fight the war.
By a supreme irony, Pentheus is destroyed by the very qualities he denies.
I knew that holding the candy in her plump little hands all that time without unwrapping it represented a supreme effort of the will for my incurably chocoholic daughter.
Men will compete for the most supreme anecdote, joke, incident, or put down.
The court must keep in mind that solicitor-client privilege is both a principle of fundamental justice and a civil right of supreme importance in Canadian law.
It's a mighty piece of work and you should appreciate the supreme effort it's going to take you to get a copy of this because it is truly worth it.
He worked on productions with supreme confidence and authority.
I was lucky in that I already knew about half the people there, but it seemed very easy to wander up and talk to the ones I didn't know, primarily because of the supreme efforts of our host and his team of helpers to make us feel at home.
It takes a supreme effort from every player on a team to secure victory.
With a supreme effort of will, I manage to look away from the large mirror.
Coaches and athletes, some of them interviewed anonymously, say that after one supreme national effort, the hothouse intensity of the Chinese way will not survive the 2008 games.
The recipient summoned up the strength to write it down, even though it cost a supreme effort.
Anway, thanks to the supreme efforts of all those involved, it went well, and people seemed to enjoy themselves.