Sentence examples for absolute monarch of from inspiring English sources

Principal amongst them were first of all his admiration for the monarchy of his cousin, King Louis XIV of France, the so-called Sun King, the absolute monarch of Europe's emergent great power and the very model of monarchical magnificence, displayed in his palace at Versailles.

He is definitely the absolute monarch of my apartment.

But my brother, the absolute monarch of our family, did nothing.

Not even 20 years old, she rules as the absolute monarch of Monsea, and she must accept the painful obligations of her station.

Swaziland: King Mswati III has been the absolute monarch of this small southern African country since inheriting the crown from his father in 1986, when he was barely 18 years old.

Sheikh Mansour, its owner, is the half-brother of Sheikh Khalifa, the absolute monarch of the United Arab Emirates: an accident of birth that has given him a mountain of cash and Manchester City the Premier League's best players.

Even the "absolute" monarchs of Europe did not always exercise genuinely absolute power.

Yemen, though still tribally fractious and backward, boasts a rowdy parliament and press.Even the absolute monarchs of the Gulf have opened up to varying degrees of citizen participation.

It will be a long time before King Coal and Queen Oil are dethroned completely, but their reigns as absolute monarchs of all they survey are coming slowly to an end.

The editorial text (p. 926) compares the two to the absolute monarchs of England in the 17th century, and derides the "fixed system of despotic rule... in each of these nominally democratic communities". Harper's Weekly (vol. 37 no. 1919) 30 September 1893.

It's at least possible that if Germany and Greece, Finland and Portugal were all ruled by absolute monarchs of the ancien régime then those princes might still cut a deal that preserved the appearance of the single currency, at whatever cost to their nameless toiling subjects.