A centralized, all-powerful state didn't please all Cubans.

This unequal relationship was reflected in the autocratic, all-powerful state headed usually by one person.

Andropov remained haunted for the rest of his life by the speed with which an apparently all-powerful Communist one-party state had begun to topple.

- the French began to abandon the concept of the all-powerful state and discovered the virtues of private enterprise and competition on the airwaves.

According to Nationalism and Culture, man is submitted to an all-powerful state just as he is to an all-powerful god.

Now Usti nad Labem is in deep depression, as its factories reduce production and await private investors to take over from the once all-powerful state.

"East Germany, by reason of its peaceful revolution against an all-powerful state, has unleashed tremendous development," he said.

That's because its theme is contrary to the Marxist dogma that the individual must be submerged in the all-powerful state.

Today we are witnessing an ideological collapse - the demise of the totalitarian idea of the omniscient, all-powerful state.

This provides a necessary bulwark against the danger of an all-powerful state invading the individual's liberty.