interregnum

How To Use interregnum In A Sentence

• That is why I'm able to look at this period that one might characterise as an interregnum, I'm able to look at this period now with considerable calm, because the organisation is being led by a remarkable team of executive directors.
• Ottokar, taking advantage of the interregnum in the German Empire, extended his power over Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria. 1255
• Matters, however, reverted to an interregnum, and owing to the repeated adjournment of the elections on one pretext after another, there were no fewer than fourteen interregna. The History of Rome, Vol. II
• They couldn't get him out of committee during the Democratic interregnum.
• Both sacred and secular music suffered with the Civil War and the subsequent interregnum.
• The interreges declined to hold the elections in consequence of the hostile attitude of the plebs, and the contest went on till the eleventh interregnum. The History of Rome, Vol. II
• It was from the Monastery of St. Ipaty in Kostroma, forty miles east of Yaroslavl, that the first Romanov czar emerged from hiding, in 1613, to end the Time of Troubles — a fifteen-year interregnum of civil war, invasion, and famine following a disputed succession to the throne — and inaugurate the dynasty that would rule until the Bolshevik Revolution. Escape to Old Russia
• However, to continue, the interregnum at Christ Church had left the still infant church in the care of the curate-in-charge.
• For much of the 13th century, the Emperor was absent from Germany, locked in the conflict with the papacy which terminated with the interregnum of 1250-72.
• Instead of using the peacetime interregnum to hone their military skills, senior military officers sought out civilian missions to justify their existence.