Sentence examples for English reign from inspiring English sources
That one supreme hour of glory and solemnity in every English reign came to George V. yesterday [June 22], when he was crowned in Westminster Abbey with the most profuse magnificence, and was acclaimed King by millions of his loyal subjects.
Anne reacted very differently to the two powerful favourites who dominated the second half of her husband's English reign, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and George Villiers, the future Duke of Buckingham.
Since Willson, however, the stability of James's government in Scotland and in the early part of his English reign, as well as his relatively enlightened views on religion and war, have earned him a re-evaluation from many historians, who have rescued his reputation from this tradition of criticism.
Black South Africans increasingly rejected Afrikaans as the language of the main oppressor; English was a symbol of advancement and prestige.Today, 16 years after the advent of black-majority rule, English reigns supreme.
WRITTEN English, which reigned as America's national language for most of The New York Times's 150 years, has been dethroned.
Furthering the Tudor conquest of Ireland, under Mary's reign English colonists were settled in the Irish Midlands to reduce the attacks on the Pale (the area around Dublin controlled by the English).
In 1016 Brentford was the scene of a battle between the Danish king Canute (reigned in England 1016 35) and the forces of the English Edmund II (reigned 1016).
Liverpool were the reigning European champions; they defeated Roma to win the 1983 84 European Cup, and were also the reigning English champions, having won the English league during the same season.
Herefordshire probably originated as a shire in the time of the English king Athelstan (reigned 925 939).
Liverpool were reigning English and European champions but under new manager Joe Fagan had made their worst start for two decades, winning two of 10 league games.
The inlet, charted (1791) by Captain George Vancouver and named by him after the reigning English king, was used as a whaling base as early as 1801.
