How To Use Monarch In A Sentence

  • A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
  • Anti-monarchist rebels bombed the police base a, triggering a fierce exchange of fire.
  • He was a powerful monarch, -- so powerful that the Greeks, who had built cities all along the coast of Asia Minor, in the country called Ionia, never spoke of him except as "The Great King. The Story of the Greeks
  • With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support repressive regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
  • His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_. Balzac
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  • The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy.
  • In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
  • I don't know what Dave means by "episcopacy" either, but there's widespread scholarly agreement that the monarchical episcopate wasn't universal early on. Triablogue
  • In what way, anon, is an elected politician talking about the future of unelected monarchy constitute hyopcrisy. Pippa pouts
  • It's certainly not the notes and coins that bother me as we would be able to retain the monarchs head, as have Spain, Netherlands and Belgium, because it's no different in those terms from when we converted to decimal currency.
  • But as he formally became absolute monarch of the tiny South Pacific nation he offered to give up most of his powers. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was a concession to the Magyars at the expense of other peoples within the borders of the Dual Monarchy.
  • Despite subsequent upheavals, the French have never seriously considered restoring the monarchy since.
  • Dr Owen might have added, I suppose, that a necessary interest in the private lives of public figures was a feature even of powerful monarchies, where wedding-night consummation was a dynastic issue to be settled with the production of the kind of gloopy evidence now entertaining audiences for forensic science TV shows such as Top stories from Times Online
  • The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.
  • He had the ear of the monarch.
  • For a monarch who does not carry cash, rail tickets are a fairly remote possibility. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was the official religion during the reign of the monarchy and is currently the unofficial religion.
  • But this is an age and time when there is not constitutional monarchy. Christianity Today
  • To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.
  • In return for granting subsidies, Parliament demanded ever new powers from the monarchy.
  • Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
  • Nevertheless it requires separate assessment, not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch.
  • It's unlikely that the IHA seeks to return the Emperor to the position that he once held but it's equally unlikely that it favours a democratic, populist approach to the monarchy.
  • I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
  • Ministers will be put under pressure to scrap the law that bans the eldest daughter of a British monarch from becoming queen if she has a brother.
  • To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.
  • The monarchy expresses itself physically through the palaces and other residences of the royal family.
  • The hereditary president of the Confederation and commander of its troops was the King of Prussia, who embodied the principle of monarchical legitimacy.
  • They call for a relationship with the centre which is rational and transparent; they make the flummery of a monarch which claims to be the glue which sticks us together all the more ridiculous.
  • Our mean-minded monarchists really are a bunch of humourless humbugs.
  • Some butterflies they attract are spicebush swallowtails, monarchs, fritillaries, whites, skippers, and a host of others.
  • For a reigning monarch, that might be considered irresponsible. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
  • This may seem surprising in view of the widespread acceptance of monarchy.
  • Thai government distanced itself Wednesday from remarks in the Minister Kasit Piromya about a need for a more open discussion of what he called the taboo subject of the role of the monarchy in WN.com - Photown News
  • It is significant that the term entered the language at a time of ineffective monarchical rule, in the mid-fifteenth century.
  • Spotted sipping on the wild ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, is our first image of a monarch butterfly this season. Whoa Nellie!* « Fairegarden
  • A little farther away, in the crowd, a young man with a blue tie and a fleur-de-lys in his buttonhole, sells pamphlets of monarchist poetry in honor of Louis de Bourbon for 5 euros.
  • a monarch has a duty to his subjects
  • Outside of the cities the monarch, whose private fortune was identical with the state finances, possessed immense domains managed by intendants and supporting a population of serf-colonists. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Obamacare Constitutional?
  • The monarchical period established an essential background for the writing prophets of the Bible.
  • Let's not make a sacred cow of the monarchy.
  • He is no longer one of that select group of monarchs in whom the reading or viewing public is thought to be interested.
  • French literature, discussions on the advisability of establishing a monarchy, on the advisability of establishing a republic, on the advisability of establishing an empire; and before we proceed to examine the arguments, we cannot help being struck at the strange contrast which this multiplicity of open questions presents to our own uninquiring acquiescence in the hereditary polity which has descended to us. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • Clough translated it in 1834, and Hardy has given an interesting summary of it in his Eastern Monarchism; but neither the text nor any complete translation is readily accessible, and I have therefore thought that this edition might possibly be acceptable to those who desire information respecting the practice of Buddhism in Ceylon, where, as is well pointed out by Mr. Childers, in his Pli Dictionary, (s.v. Nibbnam, p. 272, note), “Buddhism retains almost its pristine purity. The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies. III. The Order. Reprinted from a paper by J.F. Dickson, B. A., in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1874.
  • The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
  • French revolutionist. As a member of the States - General ( 1789 - 1791 ) he attempted to create a constitutional monarchy.
  • Yes, you may hit him fair, and make him bleed, too; but, for all that, he is a lion — a mighty, conquering, generous, rampageous Leo Belgicus — monarch of his wood. Roundabout Papers
  • But this is an age and time when there is not constitutional monarchy. Christianity Today
  • The uprise of the French Revolution took place and the French monarchy was put to an end. Hope Iv | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • the monarch's last days
  • Himself a monarchist conservative, he had little time for some of the politicians who drifted in and out of office in Berlin. DARE CALL IT TREASON
  • Each of the three was a constitutional monarchy.
  • The Portuguese monarch praises in round terms the edifying zeal of the primate, but wisely confined himself to his own crusades in India, which were likely to make better returns, at least in this world, than those to Palestine. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
  • Mints. wild bergamot, and yarrow, attract the American Painted Lady, Anise Swallowtail, Gray Hairstreak, Monarch, and Red Admiral.
  • The name sustained an irreverent homage to the monarchy, armored with irony after his flight from fascist Europe. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
  • The silktail (Lamprolia victoriae) represents an endemic genus of monarch flycatcher and is restricted to the islands of Taveuni and Vanua Levu. Fiji tropical moist forests
  • I'm not an anti-monarchist by any means because I think the royal family is mostly harmless.
  • Both monarchs aspired to be father figures to their people in a dark age. Times, Sunday Times
  • When Prussia defeated France in 1870, it initiated the establishment of a new German Empire, a monarchy over monarchies.
  • A 1946 plebiscite ended the monarchy, and a constituent assembly was elected to draw up plans for the republic.
  • Though the survey was for the specific purpose of consolidation of the monarch's power, it recorded certain incidental information that have ever been sought after by historians and antiquarians.
  • In a statement, the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, called on the Syrian president to stop what he called the "killing machine and end the bloodshed. NYT > Home Page
  • Let us imagine him to be gifted with the powers of the fabled basilisk, "to monarchise, be feared, and kill with looks. Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
  • Monarch's shaggy breast and never "fazed" him, nobody openly doubted Bears I Have Met—and Others
  • The host was politically incorrect, chain-smoking, and fiercely monarchist.
  • Although, in theory, the monarchy inhabits a realm far above the murk of daily government, it has been an important source of legitimacy for the unelected prime minister.
  • It's impossible not to be awed by the grandeur of temples and throne rooms of a country still in love with its benevolent monarchy.
  • Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy.
  • Being monarch brings with it overwhelming duties and obligations, not the least of which is that your people must find you worthy enough to bow and curtsy to.
  • Undoubtedly, by treating the two Kings they served as butts for their jokes, and by supporting the cause of American freedom against the monarch.
  • The last time a referendum was held in Greece was in 1974 to confirm the setting up of the republic and abolition of the monarchy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The monarchists are a small fringe group who quarrel fiercely among themselves.
  • As in the Democracy, the coming of equality and the death of his own class exist as providential forces, of which monarchs are both the witting and unwitting agents.
  • Once upon a time Monarchs regularly refused dissolutions as they tried to cobble together the best available Government from the volatile politics of the time.
  • The monarch is, furthermore, more than merely a part of Parliament under the constitution of the United Kingdom.
  • -- The obsidional, or _siege pieces_, struck by the partizans of this monarch during the civil wars, are extremely interesting, and, with the exception of those coined at Newark, are all rare. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
  • These are decorations awarded by the monarch only to female members of the Royal Family.
  • He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed.
  • It was only during the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, when the monarchy was untouchable, that George IV was able to force through the royal building-spree that culminated in Buckingham Palace.
  • His ponderous declaration: “I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy,” was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his Balzac
  • The crowd began to mutter angrily, the glowing embers of their ancient prejudices that had been viciously stoked by the near murder of their King were being fanned to fury so easily by the power of the monarch's simple words.
  • That's the right balance in an hereditary monarchy. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is clean-shaved; his lips are thin and sensitive; something rigid and monarchal in the set of his features lends a certain elevation to the character of his face.
  • Don't nationalise the rail service - monarchise it! Times, Sunday Times
  • The monarchy was overthrown in 1973, and since then government has been unstable. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
  • It is true we have a tradition of tough government here, whether its right-wing, monarchical, military or whatever. COUP D'ETAT
  • The monarchy was now dominant, the nobles largely feudalized, the clergy (with royal grants) powerful, the bourgeoisie vigorous (fisheries and cattle raising), the yeoman class strong and independent. E. Scandinavia
  • The monarchy has its roots in the tribal leadership among the country's Pashtun majority in the south.
  • The three guards selected exited rapidly to carry out their monarch's wishes, and the four left huddled together like a bewildered flock of sheep.
  • The vanities of sovereignty had never any particular charm for Charles V.; he was not a man who cared "to monarchise and kill with looks," or who could feel a pang at parting with the bauble of a crown; and when the wise world cried out in their surprise, and strained their fancies for the cause of conduct which seemed so strange to them, they forgot that princes who reign to labour, grow weary like the peasant of the burden of daily toil. The Reign of Mary Tudor
  • Wherefore, hereditary succession in the early ages of monarchy could not take place as a matter of claim, but as something casual or complemental; but as few or no records were extant in those days, the traditionary history stuff'd with fables, it was very easy, after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet-like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar. Common Sense
  • The monarch would nevertheless continue to be known as King, regardless of gender.
  • This may have arisen from the fact that Paine's doctrine was much more plain and intelligible to the common people: it was operatical and proposed immediate excision; that is, it advocated the total overthrow of monarchy, and the establishment of republicanism. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
  • Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.
  • As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past.
  • But as he formally became absolute monarch of the tiny South Pacific nation he offered to give up most of his powers. Times, Sunday Times
  • His decision horrified former frondeurs like Jean Le Boindre, who wrote that as ‘the French had changed their laws and their monarchy, they might as well change their name’.
  • The letters still extant from the princes of the East to Sapor are manifest forgeries; 151 nor is it natural to suppose that a jealous monarch should, even in the person of a rival, thus publicly degrade the majesty of kings. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • We get the word sheriff from a combination of she English word "shire," representing an administrative area, and "reeve," a person a monarch appointed to carry out judicial, police, works and military functions. The Times Today's News
  • Under old monarchies it was the custom on the accession of a sovereign to call in the coins of his predecessor and remint them with the new king's effigy. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking
  • At that time faddists of various persuasions proliferated up and down the Village: anarchists who dutifully went home every night to their mothers’ kitchens, a Hungarian monarchist with his own following, free-verse poets who eschewed capital letters, cultists who sat rapturously for hours in orgone boxes, cloudy Swedenborgians, and all the rest. What Happened to the Baby?
  • For they are really monarchs of their own people; that is, of their own Church (for the Church is the same thing with a Christian people); whereas the power of the Pope, though he were St. Peter, is neither monarchy, nor hath anything of archical nor cratical, but only of didactical; for God accepteth not a forced, but a willing obedience. Leviathan
  • But he is a traditionalist and is said to have opposed the constitutional changes which reduced the role of the monarch to that of a ceremonial head of state.
  • The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
  • Too much occupied with the acquaintances which they would be able to form and the invitations it might perhaps be possible to secure, they knew absolutely nothing, even in after-years, of what there was in this priceless museum of the archives of the Monarchy, and could only recall confusedly that it was decorated with cacti and giant palms which gave this centre of social elegance a look of the palmarium in the Jardin d’Acclimatation. The Guermantes Way
  • The army—intensely conservative though its military ideas might be—also regarded itself as the repository of the pride of the Prussian people, and the insults heaped upon the head of their monarch did not go unnoticed or unresented. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
  • The rebels are spearheading a violent campaign to set up a republican state by abolishing constitutional monarchy in Nepal.
  • Great (1462-1505) that Russia, -- now frequently called Muscovy from the fact that it had been reorganized with Moscow as a centre, -- after a terrible struggle, succeeded in freeing itself from the hateful Tartar domination, and began to assume the character of a well-consolidated monarchy. General History for Colleges and High Schools
  • The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.
  • Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.
  • He managed to curry favour with a succession of kings of England and was consort to the nine-year-old monarch Henry III.
  • Royal infants traditionally have safe, historical names that are passed down through the monarchy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
  • They had considered all along that their support was conditional on the restoration of the monarchy. Fascists and Conservatives
  • Until the 1890s, the garden was reserved for the exclusive use of either the monarch or selected courtiers.
  • The most incredible butterfly journey, measured in thousands of miles compared with our painted lady's few hundred mile trip, belongs to the monarch butterfly of North America.
  • Its hero is not, as the title might suggest, a reigning monarch: he is, in fact, an ex-con living in 1985 Pittsburgh having served a seven-year jail sentence for manslaughter.
  • The members of Koruna Česká, a national party that wants to transform the government into a constitutional monarchy, are used to condescendence. Archive 2007-12-16
  • James Rothschild, his brother, arrived in Paris in 1811 and helped finance the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
  • monarchal government
  • Opinion polls show a huge dip in enthusiasm for the monarchy.
  • He was not a student of French republican thought, and ended up a monarchist.
  • Lords are selected from Montfaucon Monarchie Françoise.] [Footnote II. 16: _ ---- more than carefully it us concerns, _] _More than carefully_ is _with more than common care_; a phrase of the same kind with _better than well_. King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
  • monarchical gestures
  • The long ascending line from dead matter to man has been a progress Godwards, -- not an asymptotical progress, but destined from the beginning to furnish a point of union; and occupying that point as true God and true man, -- as Creator and created, -- we recognize the adorable Monarch of all the future! The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
  • This, of course, would be the excess of tyranny and the worst wickedness in government, as has been shown above.a The dangers, then, arising from a polyarchy are more to be guarded against than those arising from a monarchy. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • It is because monarchy was beginning to be odious in the eyes of the European democracy, when contrasted with our antagonistical system of the divine right of the people. The Right of American Slavery
  • In contrast to monarchies in which the king had the power to separate conflicting factions, any such higher authority was absent in the Dutch Republic.
  • Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
  • At any rate, chances are we would remain a member of the commonwealth if we became a republic, so we would be recognising this ‘living heritage’ regardless of whether we were a monarchy or republic.
  • From the lake you can see Grand Teton, at 13,770 feet the monarch of Wyoming summits, looming over the snow-covered valley The quickest way to return is by snowshoe on the unplowed road.
  • Buchanan, however, reworked the entire argument in a classical idiom to define an elective form of monarchy and make it axiomatic that kings were accountable to those who elected them.
  • Its commitment to open proselytizing and open dissemination of ideas through the printed word was conceivable only in the relatively liberal atmosphere that prevailed in the early days of the July Monarchy.
  • There is nothing new in this: the Monarchy has almost always been regarded with disfavour, so has the ‘Establishment’, especially when times were bad.
  • By the start of the 1930s, the old primitive concept of statism, dominant throughout the monarchist age in Europe, began to reemerge.
  • In the winter of 1983-84 a major snowslide damaged a number of buildings at the Mountain Monarch portal, and subsequent cave-ins within the haulage tunnels now block access to both mines.
  • Although politically unified since the reign of the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel in the late fifteenth century, Spain continues to be divided by regional loyalties.
  • Those fine distinctions - democracy, autocracy, monarchy, whatever - are not good for business.
  • Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
  • Charles and Victoria went on to have one daughter, three granddaughters and nine great-grandchildren, through the reign of four monarchs.
  • the monarch's imposing presence
  • The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Domestic Peace
  • Better, far better aspire to deserve this name, than to repose indolently on a rank and a title deduced from monarchies, to say to thyself, "I shall be a lady forever. The Young Maiden
  • The second part talks over from Norman Conquest to "The Great Charter". In the process, Feudal monarchy had sharp conflict and compromise with the power of Christian Religion.
  • The monarchy would be preserved, despite the deep republican strand within Scottish nationalism. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is my contention that the difference between a monarchy and a republic would be symbolic only.
  • The monarch butterfly migration is one of the natural world's great spectacles. Times, Sunday Times
  • We enjoy the pomp and the pageantry around our monarchy. The Sun
  • Many scientists say that the cardenolides contained in milkweed are poisonous to most potential predators thus protecting the spectacularly colored monarchs. The Majestic Monarch Butterfly
  • A few theorists, to be sure, supported the absolute monarchs. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
  • The old medieval concept of an absolute ruler imbued with divine authority was being challenged by the shifting economic reality and the monarchy was constantly being called on to justify itself.
  • Thus, ‘Darwinist ideology,’ as she calls it, was appropriated by sections of the monarchy and capitalist class to fuel a growing racialism.
  • The monarchy is all about show, the man cloaked and hidden from view by pomp, ceremony and symbolism.
  • Poland was Europe's most important elective monarchy.
  • Gone are the days of beheading royalty and treason for enouncing the monarch's name.
  • In fact they were defending the old Spain of privilege and poverty, threatened by the masses entering politics after the 1931 expulsion of the monarchy.
  • Held on 12 April 1931 the contest turned into a more-or-less direct confrontation between monarchists and an alliance of republicans and socialists.
  • If this response is anything to go by, despite the anti-monarchist stance that apparently several MPs have, the monarchy, at least at the time being, seems as secure as it always was.
  • It declares that we, as a society, have more faith in foreign monarchies than we do in our own innovation and technology.
  • Just as she was getting the hang of this monarchy lark, along comes another embarrassing chain of events to sink its teeth into the royal posterior.
  • This is a rare example of a once popular print and presents a traditional representation of the monarch with crown, orb and sceptre, the instruments of monarchical power.
  • First, keep in mind that news anchors, like other constitutional monarchs, are primarily figureheads.
  • He refutes the neo-Weberian argument that financial demands of warfare obliged monarchies to develop modern bureaucracies.
  • Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled.
  • In the height of his prosperity, the victorious monarch, who had chastised the rashness of Gallus, and suppressed the revolt of Sylvanus, who had taken the diadem from the head of Vetranio, and vanquished in the field the legions of Magnentius, received from an invisible hand a wound, which he could neither heal nor revenge; and the son of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • However, the monarchy was not absolute, but relied on the support of a powerful and divided nobility.
  • There is nothing new in this: the Monarchy has almost always been regarded with disfavour, so has the ‘Establishment’, especially when times were bad.
  • The host plant for Monarchs is asclepias, or milkweed. Butterflies in the kitchen « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • Their marriage was celebrated with barbaric pomp and festivity, at his wooden palace beyond the Danube; and the monarch, oppressed with wine and sleep, retired at a late hour from the banquet to the nuptial bed.
  • He ridiculed the very idea of monarchy and turned the political debate in a decisively republican direction.
  • That is the crucial point about this amazing monarchy, with its ridiculous assumptions about itself.
  • Springy of the justly curl about that he lapidarian it laudably and that you feoff to get tillable on sin and showily a rube in the monarch is unsubtle. Rational Review
  • He shakes hands with the principality's reigning monarch, Prince Hans Adam II, at a garden fête.
  • The monarchist coup has attacked the achievements of the people's movement of 1990.
  • In court papers filed Tuesday, Mr. Icahn took issue with bondholder Lyme Regis Partners LLC's call to block him or one of his companies from challenging Blockbuster's proposed $290 million sale to a group of investment firms, including Monarch Alternative Capital LP. Icahn Disputes Blockbuster Bondholder
  • Between the World Wars, the Greek population vacillated between the establishment of a republican form of government and the restoration of monarchy.
  • It's a serious and immensely well-informed series about the way monarchs are defined as much by their physical weaknesses as by their strengths. Times, Sunday Times
  • In other words, there is a monarchical structure in political life paralleled by henotheism in religion.
  • High treason was a crime against the state which meant, in practice, against the monarch.
  • Here you have 12-year-olds trying to figure out whether they should go for an agrarian capitalist society or a monarchy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The test of true monarchism in a nation would be our tolerance of a really bad monarch. Times, Sunday Times
  • This may seem surprising in view of the widespread acceptance of monarchy.
  • The finances of the Balearic Islands, which have been led by a staunchly pro-monarchy government in recent years, have been shattered by Spain's property bust. World Watch
  • He rants about the monarchy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The early part of the 1990s, when monarchism dared not speak its name and supporters of the Crown felt as though they were a beleaguered minority, seems like a bygone age.
  • It has gone from sovereign power through imperial grandeur, to family of the nation and welfare monarchy defined by good works. Times, Sunday Times
  • This should not be too surprising as emperors and monarchs had been famous in history for their love of flowers and gardens.
  • Each year the Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo, Hawai'i, showcases the best of the best in Hawaiian hula, which nowadays includes performances by hālau from overseas, where some of the top hālau have branches. Far Outliers
  • Only with great reluctance does Moses condone the possible introduction of a monarchy in the future.
  • While there he claimed to have gained his closest access to the monarch, carrying food to her apartments, serving her gin and Dubonnet, and delivering mail to her room.
  • The King insists that Aquaman is the rightful heir to the throne, and that as a baby he was spirited away--because of his "deformities"--to protect the monarchy. Archive 2009-06-01
  • To demonstrate that monarchs have an internal clock and that the clock is set by daylight, the researchers examined the time of day when adult monarchs emerge from their hard-shelled pupa, called the chrysalis.
  • Some studies have shown that monarch larva die when fed Bt pollen, although other studies of swallowtail butterflies show little effect.
  • It also lies behind such developments as the medieval conviction that a monarch could heal by the laying on of hands.
  • The monarchists are a small fringe group who quarrel fiercely among themselves.
  • This perhaps contradictory self-definition was still relevant in the referendum on the monarchy in 1999.
  • The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage.
  • The despotic monarchs of Spain forbid the exploring of any new gold or silver mines without the express permission of government, and they have ordered several rich ones to be shut up as not equal to the cost of working. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification

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