Here are coronation books which document the ceremony through which the king assumed power, and so come to serve as visual proof of his supreme authority.

We demand that our public servants recognize that the people are the supreme authority.

The commanders-in-chief exercised supreme authority in their respective zones and acted in concert on questions affecting the whole country.

What made it work was the translation of supreme authority from the popes to the council.

He favoured an ultramontane view of politics that acknowledged the supreme authority of the pope.

However, the image of the king as the supreme judge of the land took hold, and this image appears in many literary works and poems.

The position of a supreme judge was created.

The supreme judge was elected by the people, but the legislature could select someone as presiding judge as a replacement if needed.

This temporary government had a supreme judge, a legislature, and at first an executive committee followed later by a governor.

The emperor also acted as the supreme judge.

The protesters had directly disobeyed the supreme leader - which just last week would have been an unthinkable act.

Hardline theocrats retain control over the armed forces, the selection process for the all-important position of supreme leader and the commanding heights of the economy.

Ultimately the elections should determine the identity of the next supreme leader.

Yet it seems that the supreme leader wants to clone himself — or do the next best thing.

Though five years younger than his rival, the supreme leader has been plagued by illness.

Their supreme self-confidence has traditionally been bolstered by gloomy hints of the consequences of not following the advice in question.

His mystique, a distillation of charisma, supreme self-confidence and brilliant generalship, won him the trust of his soldiers.

An amused smile plays across his lips; he works a room with supreme self-confidence.

In an age of curate's-egg albums, stuffed full of songs to cater for voracious streamers and to bump up an artist's stats, this suggests lunacy, defiance or supreme self-confidence.