Sentence examples for Divine emperor from inspiring English sources

Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person".

The orthodoxy used to be Confucianism, which imposed a social hierarchy as a kind of cosmic order, with the divine emperor at its pinnacle.

In the Roman Empire it seemed natural to offer sacrifice and burn incense to the divine emperor as a symbol of loyalty, much like standing for a national anthem today.

To the rhetors of his court, Manuel was the "divine emperor".

It took the intervention of the usually largely honorific yet officially divine Emperor Hirohito to force the surrender of the Japanese government as he at last took the side of ineffectual civilian officials.

During a campaign speech Saturday night, Mori referred to Japan as a kokutai or "national polity --a now-archaic term used in the decades leading upolity --a War II to connote a Japolity --aionow-archaiced by a divine emperor.

A sense that any lapse in duty risked cosmic consequences haunted the highly bureaucratic government and the hierarchical society of nobles (the semi-divine emperor, priests, lords, generals) and commoners (merchants, artisans, peasants, laborers).

Monarchs whose touch could cure scrofula, semi-divine emperors, deathless Arthurian kings: legends about rulers encapsulate the hopes and dreads of a nation.

A wall of Morpurgo's building carried the text of "Res Gestae Divi Augusti," or "Deeds of the Divine Augustus," the emperor's memoirs recounting his triumphs.

To regain divine protection, the emperors introduced the systematic persecution of Christians throughout the empire.

At different eras in its history, Russian statehood has expanded in the name of pan-Slavism, the divine right of emperors, Orthodox brotherhood, proletarian internationalism and, more recently, the rights of Russian-speaking minorities.