How To Use Throne In A Sentence
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Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish.
The Christian Home
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The game's protagonist, Laharl, a self-absorbed demon who also happens to be prince to the throne of the netherworld, is as unlikely a ‘hero’ as one could expect.
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The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
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This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen).
The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)
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He sat like a king on a throne, his beaklike nose high in the air, introducing his wives.
The Season of Risks
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I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court.
A Royal Engagement
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The Twelfth" officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange versus the Catholic he deposed from the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast.
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In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The ascension to the throne of a chief or headperson is hereditary.
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See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay.
Christianity and Islam
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Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III.
The Rise Of an Empress
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But the throne in the room was like a king 's throne.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throne of God, by tens, by hundreds, by thousands, the harmonious and multisonant salutation of all the Voices.
The Captive
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The foundation stone was laid by Mrs Brown on June 21, the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne.
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Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
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Thus to this congregation of excellent, undeceiving refuge, we pray that by the power of this prayer expressed from a heart filled with fervent devotion and humility, may the body, speech and mind of the sole of the Land of Snows, the supreme Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso, be indestructible, unfluctuating and unceasing; may he live immutable for a hundred aeons, seated on a diamond throne, transcending decay and destruction.
The Long Life Prayer for the 14th Dalai Lama
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By 1134, two of Sancho's sons had successively acceded to both thrones and died without heirs, leaving only one son left - Ramiro, Bishop of Barbastro-Roda.
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Upon the death of his father Frederick in 1751, George succeeded as prince of Wales and heir to the throne.
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Eighth in line to the throne, he will be three by the time of the wedding.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may even date to Kay-drub's tenure as the second Holder of the Throne of
The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II)
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Does he or she have any rights to the throne room?
Christianity Today
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He was then received at court balls, in company with his wife, and Mme. Dionis was "enthroned" in the village because of her "ways of the throne.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
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Fardohnya will become the Overlord's through the ascension of a Karien king to the throne.
TREASON KEEP
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The accession of the Dutch prince to the throne had agonized the Tories because it set aside both the reigning (or "abdicated") king and the Prince of Wales.
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When another of Aegon's Great Bastards tried to seize the Iron Throne from his trueborn half-brother, Bittersteel joined the revolt.
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These reigns marked the beginning of in-law government, a period in which control over the throne passed between certain in-law factions.
2. Korea, 1800-1910
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They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds.
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She had plush upholstered chairs set up around the table with a special throne-like chair at the head of the table.
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The world was a very different place when the Queen acceded to the throne.
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Who will succeed him to the throne?
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He was the legal heir to the throne.
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From here the pair walked to a specially designed mandap, a gazebo style structure used in all Indian weddings, and sat on ornate thrones as a Hindu priest, known as a pandit, performed the ceremony.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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She is fifth in the line of succession to the throne.
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He isn't thinking of returning full-time to a career in interviewing and he wasn't keen to offer advice to the latest pretender to his throne.
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Third, the world sees no near-term pretender to the throne because neither the divergent economies within the Euro zone nor the undemocratic Chinese regime command sufficient confidence in their respective currencies.
NYT > Opinion
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A little time to carry on this intrigue with the Frank, when possibly, by the assistance of this gallant, Alexius shall exchange the crown for a cloister, or a still narrower abode; and then, Agelastes, thou deservest to be blotted from the roll of philosophers, if thou canst not push out of the throne the conceited and luxurious Caesar, and reign in his stead, a second Marcus
Count Robert of Paris
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Troy is certainly heir to the throne of alpha male, so there's going to be that natural organic energy of conflict that happens between the silverbacks and the branch crashers as we say in primatology.
Is Community Really Going to Be "Less Weird" This Year?
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1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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He then walked deeper into the darkness, looked at the empty throne, and then turned to walk out.
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Inwardly as distressed as the Thienz, Scait strode from the hall without pause to call a lackey to replace the rent limb of his throne arm.
Shadowfane
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At friends 'parties he participates in improv poetry competitions as Iron Poet Norse Saga, whose hour-long eddas on the dust-bunnies beneath Odin's throne often extend the celebrations until dawn.
MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2)
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To climb to his throne, the King had to pass first between a golden lion and a silver ox.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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The king abdicated his throne, and the country became a republic.
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We vow to return on the train and try out the ‘twobicles’ - the double thrones in the ladies toilets - or be arrested in the attempt.
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In the centre, Christ is seen, enthroned under a kind of palmetto canopy; above him, on
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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The young Edward V acceded to the throne on the death of Edward IV.
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SITTING through box sets of hit shows like Game of Thrones is good for your love life.
The Sun
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Many councils will not be holding special civic functions to mark the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne.
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In 1376 he predeceased his father, leaving his young son Richard as heir to the throne.
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Richard lasted only two years before he was deposed by Henry Tudor, a relation to the House of Lancaster but with no realistic hereditary claim to the throne.
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Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England.
TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
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At three the following afternoon (everything running late), the Ambassador to Ix left the Throne Room looking agitated and splenetic.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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I mean, what other egg dish requires the use of its own little throne, giving me the occasion and joy of whipping out my designer egg cup, complete with matching spoon and integrated salt dispenser?
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The front was covered with decorations, including mock-ups of a throne and floral crown, window-sill models of Coronation regalia and the Royal coach, coloured lights and Royal portraits.
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Kings can be de-throned - and a couple of these DINOs need to be kicked out next time their election is held.
Four new kings of the Hill in Washington
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The followers of Pelagius, a wicked Welsh heresiarch, had murdered the rightful king and his son and installed Vortigern, ‘a Pelagianized traytor against his Soveraign’ on the throne.
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No greater contrast is possible than to go from a city under the sway of a proletarian dictatorship to a royal city where a king sits in ermine on an ancient throne.
Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
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I remember that at another festivity given by the city to the Emperor a few years later, since all inscription had been exhausted, there were placed above the throne on which he was to sit, these words from Scripture, in gold letters: _Ego sum qui sum_, -- and no one was shocked.
The Court of the Empress Josephine
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Theological Science: and Morality, to which we omitted before to assign an office, we have stationed somewhere beneath the footstool, which is before the Throne, of the Most High.
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
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And we know the importance of selecting a brood mare for an heir to the throne.
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National Day is held on 3 March, in celebration of King Hassan II's accession to the throne in 1961.
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Bells pealed across Monaco yesterday as the principality praised Prince Albert II's rise to the throne and bid a final symbolic farewell to his late father Rainier III.
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Nor could he disregard the Salic Law which forbade the accession to the throne of a woman.
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In short, the young princes arguably had an unqualified right of succession to the British throne, a right that was much stronger than their uncle.
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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.
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Yes, he might appear distant and archaic but he is the heir to the throne and one day it will be his.
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The throne was no longer at issue; now she was merely an eccentric noblewoman running from an unprincipled enemy.
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He seems nothing more than a general factotum but in fact he's the power behind the throne at Bangazi.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Napoleon overthrows the King of Spain Fernando VII and places his brother Joseph on the throne (1808)
Mexico - history time-line overview - resource page
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Edward's is the first English royal seal to survive; the image of the king in majesty, enthroned with orb and sceptre, was borrowed from German models.
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We negotiated with Mir Jaffier for the viceroyal throne of his master.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
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They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
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The champion was disenthroned in the second round of the match.
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That way he could abandon any pretence of loyalty to the book and invent all the Game of Thrones characters he wanted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Misjudging the survival of Romano-British life, Gregory had planned archbishoprics based on London and York, but political realities were acknowledged in 601 when Augustine was enthroned as first archbishop of Canterbury.
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Rome, pick up Prince Charles, put him on the magic carpet, fly to London, clap the Cap of Darkness on him so that nobody can see him, set him down on the throne of his fathers; pick up the Elector, carry him over to his beloved Hanover, and the trick is done -- what they call a bloodless revolution in the history books.
Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son
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At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles, also standing in the same posture of profound reverence.
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Such a get-up might de-throne me once and for all, or at the very least earn a few "graceless" points with the neighbor who thinks I'm so stuffy, so reine-like.
French Word-A-Day:
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In the 16th Century, Raja Wadiyar defeated the viceroy of the Vijayanagar empire, wrested the famed golden throne from him and established the sovereignty of the Mysore kings with Srirangapatna as the capital.
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The next year the death of the emperor Joseph brought the archduke Charles to the imperial throne.
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There came a slave and louted low before Darius 'throne,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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Son of Banquo, Fleance escapes Macbeth's murderous rampage and flees to England where he helps Macduff mount the insurrection that unthrones Macbeth.
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If she had lasted just two months longer she would have become the oldest person to take the British throne - so far.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you started out as a pro and dethroned the King, Arnold Palmer, in his backyard at the 1962 U.S. Open, the public wasn't nearly as fond of you as it is now.
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The Normans; or rather the private adventurers of that warlike people, who founded a powerful kingdom in Apulia and Sicily, shook the throne of Constantinople, displayed the trophies of chivalry, and almost realized the wonders of romance.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls.
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God hath placed Him in the midst of His throne as a Lamb, as it had been slain, and it is thus that the hosts of heaven adore Him.
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And I confer upon you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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When the Scottish King James I came to the throne he ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including pubs.
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The Emperor Asoka constructed the "Golden Throne" sometime around 250 BC, and over time many other buildings and statues were added.
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Both fighters are in a redemption mission after being dethroned of their SA flyweight and junior flyweight titles respectively.
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In 1742, when the Qianlong Emperor had been on the throne for six years, he gave orders for a new palace and garden to be built in the north-east quarter of the Forbidden City.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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‘I sist you to compear before the Great White Throne, and I warn you the summons shall be bloody and sudden.’
Lay Morals
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A more elaborate Doric capital of white marble, with flutes on the necking, is stored west of the building, to the west of the marble throne in room A.
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I mourn for the loss of my beloved wife, but I rejoice over the birth of my son and heir to my throne.
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At any rate, in some old books, thrones were a very high order of angels, just below the cherubim and seraphim.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Most supported the British and Mughals merely to keep themselves enthroned.
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The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls.
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Kettricken saw as unchangeable that Nettle had a place in the line of heirs to the throne.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Accordingly, in 1698 the two rulers rapidly agreed that they would support the candidacy for the Spanish throne of the young grandson of the emperor who was elector of Bavaria.
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When this picture-perfect Cotswolds village inn was ‘new’, Elizabeth I was still on the throne and Shakespeare was just starting to make a name for himself.
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Readers will recognize the Ktesibios floating valve as the predecessor to the floating ball in the upper chamber of the porcelain throne.
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Only one or two openly professed what may be called anarchistic views, and these were young students, recent arrivals, who looked more like robbing an orchard than threatening a throne.
From Paris to New York by Land
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That level of growth serves the interest of a few and these are the ones who are deemed to be the power behind the throne.
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He arose, but in the short interval, the throne had been hoisted from the floor to the ceiling, the Imperial figure appeared in new and more gorgeous apparel, and the interview was concluded in haughty and majestic silence.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Does he or she have any rights to the throne room?
Christianity Today
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Elizabeth II came to the throne when Britain still enjoyed a society where deference joined with self respect.
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The Prince handed his sceptre back to the courtier and stepped down from his throne.
KARA KUSH
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Laodicea is given the crowning promise, not only the two former blessings, but a seat with Christ on His throne, even as He has sat with His Father on His Father's throne (Re 3: 21).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned
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If I was heir to the throne, they couldn't possibly consciously betray me to the enemy.
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Louis determined to support an Irish rebellion seeking to reinstall the deposed Catholic James II to the English throne.
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He has never renounced his claim to the throne of a kingdom which no longer exists.
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The members of the royal family who are in line to the throne cannot take the chances that our children and grandchildren would take.
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With the imperial household out of the way, the Senate enfeebled by dissension and apathy, the civil service terror-stricken, and the military under flabby command, the throne seemed well within Faustinus's grasp.
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Anthrone colorimetry method was adopted to determine the content of carbohydrate components.
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Kings (“Prosperity” & “First Night”) – We find out just how ruthless King Silas is as he plans to have David killed, fearing that he has drawn too much attention to himself (and perhaps become a threat to the throne, as hinted at in the pilot).
Sci Fi TV Briefs – So How Does the BSG Finale Sit With You after a Week and a Half?
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It is the only surah which does not contain any letter "mim" [7] The number of times the 7 heavens are mentioned is 7 and the number of times the phrase "established on His Throne" is also 7 [8] Surah Yasin (the heart of the Qur'an) contains 7 'mubin'.
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When Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne in 1952 the United Kingdom was monocultural, hierarchical and deferential.
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On a bright polish'd throne, of prismatical [47] spar,
Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810
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And always watch out for the power behind the throne.
Times, Sunday Times
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These voices told her that it was her divine mission to free her country from the English and help the dauphin gain the French throne.
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In the full august assembly, Nero discovered enthroned, not unmajestic in deportment, yet effeminately chapleted, and holding a lyre: suppose him just returned from Elis, a pancratist, the world's acknowledged champion.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
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It was Don King's first major promotion and set the then 32 year old Ali, against the younger pretender to his throne, George Foreman, seven years younger at 25.
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In 476 AD, the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus was dethroned by the German general Odoacer, ending the Western Empire.
Philip Giraldi: Neocon Ancient History
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It is now known that royalty was not handed down by women, even though consanguine marriages strengthened the throne.
Exhibit of Egyptian Queens
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I searched the entire throne room, expecting to find a specter or ghost pop out at any second, and my imagination slowly took over reason.
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The patriarchate was restored, with the enthronement of Sergei eight days later.
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The special effects pleased him, but the happenings, centring on a lost heir and a throne, were those of an historic costume drama.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Firdausi in the _Shaknameh_, of Kavi Usan, who "essayed the sky To outsoar angels" by fastening four eagles to his throne.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country
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The King is being dethroned, that's what's happening.
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Emperor Saga retired from the throne in 823 at the age of thirty-eight, the same year he awarded Kukai the headship of the monastery Toji for use as a Shingon training center in the Heian capital.
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In addition, HBO have added a Game of Thrones-centric subsite and forum to their main website and confirmed that a veteran Dexter director, Brian Kirk, will be handling two episodes of the first season.
Archive 2010-06-01
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It is very likely that our new prince or princess will not take the throne until he or she is in her sixties.
Times, Sunday Times
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The queen was enthroned in an ancient abbey.
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Plus, I am not even Chinese, so I am not a China girl per se, just a pretender to the throne.
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She stood before the throne of her master in armor of purest white edged in gold.
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Garun's palanquin was set down beside the black stone throne.
WATER BOOK ONE: ASCENSION
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Bolingbroke gives his solemn oath that he has come not to usurp the throne but simply to reclaim his rightful goods and title.
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It encouraged the adherents of this house to attribute to it an almost regal dignity, and to intimate more and more plainly its claim upon the throne of France, as descended through the Dukes of Lorraine from Charlemagne -- a title superior to that of the Valois, who could trace their origin to no higher source than the usurper Hugh Capet.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The throne is seen from directly in front, but the entablature and column capitals are seen from the left.
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Should the Tudor line die out, there would be a Stewart heir to the English throne.
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Will Charles renounce the throne in favour of his son?
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What an honour to think that I am to be elevated to the throne, and to bring the seat in Parliament as backsheesh to the sultan!
The History of Pendennis
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Her duty was to produce an heir to the throne.
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Lanre Atijosan, also from Prendergast, then dethroned the reigning champion in the long jump with a mark of 5.65 metres.
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Bishop Fenelon, a contemporary of Louis XIV, was an eminent and great philosopher, a critic of government, and tutor to the Duke of Burgoyne, heir to the French throne.
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The principle of divine kingship was maintained even when the king was replaced by rulers drawn from outside the family of the enthroned king.
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acanthonemes," the branching and multiarticulate "arthronemes," and those of the more elementary and "adipose fin" type "protonemes": and had he lived to complete the task, I question whether it would not have excelled his earlier achievements.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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The event at the Charterhouse, where the young Elizabeth I stayed before acceding to the English throne, featured musicians, a court jester and yeomen guards in a bid to recreate the regal splendour of the Tudor age.
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She looked down into the clear water, palest green in the evening light, that reached almost to her knees, as she trod the narrow golden path towards the seagirt throne of rock.
His Disposition
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Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia.
ShoutWire.com
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Succession to the throne is based at present on the principle of male primogeniture, embodied in the Salic law, according to which male heirs take precedence and the right of succession belongs to the eldest son.
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A stunning portfolio of photographs of the Queen was unveiled today to mark the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
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If he does not submit his request to Parliament or if approval is not granted, then the royal loses his right of succession to the throne.
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And they saw lying at full length upon the throne our lord Solomon, clad in robes of green silk inwoven with gold and broidered with jewels and precious minerals: his right hand was passed over his breast and on the middle finger was the seal ring whose lustre outshone that of all other gems in the place.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Force and fraud were then dextrously applied to secure his ascent from the Dalriadan to the Pictish throne a few years later.
'The Invention of Scotland: History and Myth'
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If I squint I can just make out a bejewelled monk on a throne.
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She even insisted that Mary was the rightful heir to the throne of England.
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The centerpiece depicts the empress enthroned under a baldachin and surrounded by figures of Hercules, Minerva, Mars, and other gods celebrating her military achievements.
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Elephants and horses have been replaced now by tractors and wagons decked with flowers and a throne for each acharya and a few of his followers.
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Other rooms have a distinctively oriental flavour; the Throne Room is decked out in ornate Byzantine style with a great domed blue ceiling covered with stars and a huge sunburst.
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Edward VI's accession to the throne meant greater support for Protestantism throughout the country, and imprisonment for Gardiner.
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Every person and item of ritual furniture the altar with its book, candlesticks and crucifix laid out, the papal throne to the left with its honorific baldacchino is numbered and then labeled in the key below, so that viewers of the print can learn every arcane detail of this aspect of the papal mass.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne
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The modern phase of Mysore began from 1800 with the ascent to the throne of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III.
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See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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After the death of Ethelred the Unready in 1016, the throne of England passed to Canute.
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We'll hang them from the ceiling above the Sovereign's throne to form a canopy.
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Although a comfortable-looking row of chairs sat facing the throne, he did not take a seat.
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There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self.
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If you were within the first hundred cards, you would get into the throne room where you waited for the presentation to take place.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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She sat serenely in her throne, surveying her courtiers through utterly regal eyes, which hid the heavy pounding of her heart.
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But what may be most remarkable about her is that her impeccable standards never flag, no matter how late in the day, no matter how tired, no matter how many customers are waiting their turn to mount one of the shop's three shoeshine thrones.
A New Yorker Who Shines
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A whisper of mystery turns all eyes to the throne.
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Factions formed around the heir to the throne and other members of the royal family as well as in the entourage of ministers.
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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
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What everybody forgot was that, with no Empress or heirs to the throne, there was a distinct power void.
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Although cathedrals are often immensely scaled and ornate in design, the term ‘cathedral ‘does not in fact refer to an elaborate sacred structure; rather it is derived from the Latin word cathedra (throne).’
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The Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII, is famous for abdicating the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
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Father, a large work, shows Dad enthroned on a chair, two children at his side.
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He sat on a throne outside the lion exhibit and wore an incongruous plastic gold crown.
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Truculent and self-confident as he was, he never acted against the royal authority in such a manner as to oblige the king to strike him down in secret; and it is difficult to believe that Louis XIV, peaceably seated on his throne, with all the enemies of his minority under his feet, should have revenged himself on the duke as an old Frondeur.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
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Evening Prayer II for August 15 features this antiphon: ‘The Virgin Mary was taken up to the heavenly bridal chamber where the King of kings is seated on a starry throne.’
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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Angelique yawned and shifted sideways in the throne for comfort, lifting her legs over the right arm rest.
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Left-handed, and was the daughter of his loyal adherent, the alcayde of Malaga, who sheltered him in his city when driven from the throne.
The Alhambra
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Mousa fled in disguise from the palace of Boursa; traversed the Propontis in an open boat; wandered over the Walachian and Servian hills; and after some vain attempts, ascended the throne of Adrianople, so recently stained with the blood of Soliman.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He had learned to go, unled, straight to his throne, without wandering off to speak to some chance person who had caught his eye; to keep his voice down so that he was seen, but not heard to speak, enabling Meleager beside him to proclaim suitable replies.
Funeral Games
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This Vial initiates a direct attack on the throne of the Beast, the vice-gerent of
Commentary on Revelation
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He was not only the male heir in propinquity of blood, but his experienced years and known virtues excited all true Scots to place him on the throne.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Queen Elizabeth came / succeeded to the throne in 1952.
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In June 1880, the governor of Herat, Ayub Khan, left Herat with a small army, intent on seizing the throne of Kabul left vacant by the British deposition of his elder brother, Yakub Khan.
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Fairness demanded that the throne be rotated among the players, usually on a weekly basis.
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The psychologist Alfred Adler concluded that middle children, who had neither suffered the indignity of being "dethroned" like the eldest sibling, nor the pampered indulgence of the youngest, had the best chance of growing into successful, well-adjusted adults.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The year is 1558 and the document is dated November 20, the very day that the young Elizabeth I ascends the throne.
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A stunningly colourful inauguration service marked the enthronement of the 97th Archbishop of York at the city's Minster yesterday in a ceremony which broke from traditions dating back more than 1,200 years.
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'hecatomb' (more dethronement rhetoric), the factor of laws and regulation is built into the evolution of complex economies, which only arise in their modern form under very special conditions, and which are set up by the deliberate tactics of 'free market' policy makers.
Darwiniana