What's the difference between dictator and pendragon?
Dictator
Definition:
(n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
(n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
(3) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(4) In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia – three countries that toppled three dictators nearly four years ago – 2014 marked something of a comeback for the concept of strongman leadership.
(5) Ernst had adopted conservative positions during the primary battle: she called the president a dictator and said the Environmental Protection Agency should be abolished.
(6) Some objected, saying we should not admit a dictator's son.
(7) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
(8) The "size principle" is known to dictate the sequence of recruitment of motor neurons during voluntary or reflex activation of muscles.
(9) Thus, cleavage site selection is likely to be dictated by specific noncovalent DNA-protein interactions.
(10) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(11) Aldi is able to order this selection, more than 90% of which is own-label products, through bulk-buying, while dictating the package size in order to fit the maximum amount of goods on its shelves and lorries in order to keep costs low.
(12) This choice was made on the basis of a clinical and angiographic estimate of the possible consequences of vessel occlusion, or dictated by sound inoperability of the patient.
(13) This unusual nature dictates an enhanced awareness for proper management.
(14) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
(15) North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un is also aware of the fate of other dictators who lacked nuclear weapons or were forced to give them up.
(16) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
(17) Combat conditions or mass casualty situations may dictate a delay in surgery because of higher priorities or lack of surgical facilities.
(18) So, logic would dictate that if Greeks are genuinely in favour of reform – and opinion polls have consistently shown wide support for many of the structural changes needed – they would be foolish to give these two parties another chance.
(19) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(20) Killian Fox Growing your own: the basics What you decide to plant will be somewhat dictated by the space you have.
Pendragon
Definition:
(n.) A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ash said it was writing to a number of health organisations that have used Luther Pendragon, including St George's Healthcare NHS Trust and NHS Skills for Health, suggesting that they may want to think again before using a firm that promotes the interest of cigarette companies.
(2) A typical sales pitch comes from Pendragon Management in London , with an office address in Regent Street.
(3) Chief Druid King Arthur Pendragon gets court date over Stonehenge parking fees Read more The transport secretary said the tunnel could enhance the Stonehenge site by removing traffic.
(4) This also revealed for the first time that 45 groups are administered by professional parliamentary lobbyists, such as Quiller consultants, Luther Pendragon and Bell Pottinger Public Affairs.
(5) Pendragon, who sports long white robes, set about knighting new followers to his druidic order, the Loyal Arthurian Warband, which he described as the political wing of the religion.
(6) It might be easy to dismiss Arthur Pendragon as an endearing eccentric had he not been quite so successful.
(7) Luther Pendragon's Brussels office has also been working for the European Retailers and Tobacconists Association.
(8) Pendragon is run by a Dutch lawyer, Gerard Kelderman, who has provided Dutch, Belgian and Russian clients with BVI companies through London.
(9) Pendragon insisted on swearing the oath on his sword Excalibur, and Starmer managed to persuade staff at the court in Salisbury to let him unsheath it.
(10) I ask him about Arthur Pendragon, the self-proclaimed king of the Druids, whom he once defended on a charge of trespassing at Stonehenge during the summer solstice.
(11) Ralph Smythe is now head of infrastructure and legal at the Campaign to Protect Rural England ‘I was arrested 26 times’ Arthur Pendragon I was there from start to finish.
(12) An email from a Luther Pendragon lobbyist to trading standards teams, obtained by the Observer , says: "We aren't against their objective, but don't think this will achieve their aims."
(13) Arthur Pendragon, who claims to be a reincarnation of the once and future king and is a poster boy of the pagans at solstice, was keen to make peace his key message.
(14) Luther Pendragon did not return requests for comment.
(15) "Any of the many health organisations that have used Luther Pendragon in the past should think carefully about whether to do so in the future," Arnott said.
(16) It has emerged that Luther Pendragon, a major UK lobbying and PR firm whose clients include McDonald's and Exxon Mobil, has been quietly lobbying against plain packaging on behalf of Philip Morris.
(17) It's the possible removal of this byway, together with the display of human remains at the visitor centre, that is most exercising the man we might think of as Stonehenge's alternative archon, Arthur Uther Pendragon (born John Rothwell), the leader of the Loyal Arthurian Warband – a neo-druidic order with strong political and environmentalist tendencies – and the self-proclaimed reincarnation of King Arthur.
(18) Arthur Pendragon, aka King Arthur, is chief druid of the Loyal Arthurian Warband ‘I was going to be an eco-warrior’ Martin Porter I arrived at Newbury and was directed to Granny Ash camp, through the snow in the dark.
(19) King Arthur Pendragon (centre left) leads a protest march at Stonehenge.
(20) For Henry of Huntingdon's contemporary, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Stonehenge was the burial place of King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, although it was originally built by Pendragon's brother, King Aurelius, as a monument to Britons who were murdered at the site by the treacherous Saxon invader Hengist.