But regional leaders, like Yeltsin himself, do not exercise power unchallenged.
The internecine struggles continued until the Bolsheviks assumed unchallenged power in 1920.
Not even the Yankees can claim such an unbroken reign of unchallenged power.
He will have unchallenged power and authority.
For a nation with the virtually unchallenged power of the United States today, the use of force is a constant temptation.
The Pinches seem to have the unchallenged power to do this kind of thing.
After all, he noted with some understatement, after four decades of virtually unchallenged power, the party elders "know how to apply pressure."
The retired leader, who is 77 years old, announced last week that he was quitting after holding unchallenged power for 26 years.
A government in exile is the one threat to their hopes of many years in unchallenged power.
When Rahl opens the correct box, though, he will have unchallenged power over all things living, and then the wizard will be his.