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1 Over the country he exercised the powers of an absolute monarch.
2 Wilfrid did not obtain the pall, but exercised the powers of a Metropolitan.
3 Their sons, as regents, exercised the powers of government.
4 So judiciously and patriotically had he exercised the powers entrusted to him, that he disarmed opposition.
5 He had in charge the stores of the gens; and, in unimportant cases, he exercised the powers of a judge.
6 He consolidated and increased the estates of the church, exercised the powers of a count, denounced simony and initiated financial reforms.
7 General Washington exercised the powers confided to him with caution, but he did exercise them; and by doing so, acquired considerable supplies.
8 In other places a "select vestry," or corporation of persons filling its own vacancies, exercised the powers of parish government.
9 Teutonic kings, again, in the old heathen days seem to have stood in the position, and to have exercised the powers , of high priests.
10 But this great body was represented by a smaller Council of about thirty, which bore the name and exercised the powers of the States-General.
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