Sentences with phrase «positions of absolute power»

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The rest of the picture can be filled in as follows: Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor, who play newlywed couple Juliet and Peter, contend with the latent feelings of Peter's old friend Mark (Andrew Lincoln); Martin Freeman and Joanna Page, body doubles in movies who find attraction to one another while staging sex scenes; Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson, a longtime married couple now face a crisis in the wake of Karen (Thompson)'s discovery of an affair her husband is potentially having with a coworker; Hugh Grant's Prime Minister, the most self - deprecating individual ever to find himself in a position of such power, can't help but feel attracted to one of his secretaries even after her indiscretion with the sleazy U.S. President (an absolute waste of Billy Bob Thornton's time).

It is patronizing and fatalistic to assume that people in positions of relative but not absolute powerlessness, who nevertheless benefit from a high carbon - emitting society, are entirely bereft of the ability to chose and therefore of power.

It is to be noted that the peculiarity of the HKSAR's position in relation to the PRC, its Basic Law and the express provision therein requiring reference of matters within the powers of the Central People's Government to the Standing Committee, together with the PRC doctrine of absolute immunity, form the context in which this decision was made.