trade union leaders were now denounced as overmighty tyrants
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The Prime Minister is now ready to stamp on his overmighty Chancellor.
Humanists are also against an overmighty state.
A handful of overmighty subjects exercised a disproportionate influence on the events of the Wars of the Roses.
James I would later, with an eye on overmighty clergy and depleted royal resources, call him ‘a sair sanct for the croon’, but this gave him the lasting basis of effective administration.
They idealized the struggle of a citizen army against the overmighty British and marvelled at the establishment of a republic with a written constitution.
In the 1990s, one of the big errors was to read the coming century as if the principle danger to humanity would be overmighty totalitarian states.
Instead it identified chiefly as the vastly overmighty centre of England or Britain - the big throbbing heart of the country, rather than a city in its own right.
They did not want an overmighty second chamber and they insisted that there must be a mechanism for resolving deadlocks between the two houses.
But Britain needs a government willing to loosen the grip of the overmighty centre: if it can't do that for the party, what hope is there for the country?
It is not at all fanciful to see this as conferring a popular legitimacy which enables that court to play a part in public affairs that would strike many in this country as overmighty if adopted by the High Court.
For centuries, Britain had fought to maintain the balance of power in Europe, to ensure that no state became overmighty.
It merely added to the numbers of old-style territorial marcher lords there whom Tudor officials increasingly distrusted as overmighty subjects.
Warwick was the mightiest of overmighty subjects, who was instrumental in putting Edward IV on the throne in 1461, deposing him in 1470, and restoring Henry VI.
But gone are the days when overmighty Governments or greedy and arrogant ministers were its targets.
Broadcasting had become ‘an overmighty subject’ answerable neither to its political masters nor the general public.
The danger of an overmighty secret state, justified by the threat of terrorism, is exacerbated by the very same factor that so much helps terrorists: advances in technology.
Which brings us to the second side-function of this TV drama, its Technicolor illustration of a drab fact: Britain suffers from a bad case of overmighty executive syndrome.
I'm not making light of the terrorist threat, just giving the correct weight to the overmighty state threat.
It started off as a movement whereby Student Unions, overmighty in those days, bound themselves to deny racists and fascists a platform to speak at university meetings.
Ministers should bring to heel their overmighty subjects in Historic Scotland and end this haughty reign of feudalism.