Sentence examples for aristocratic order from inspiring English sources

Xiang Yu's defeat signaled the end of the old aristocratic order in China.

The first state in which the old aristocratic order began to break up was Corinth.

This small grouping gave him the chance to build up a modern and racially aristocratic order of the Teutonic Knights.

In 1556 Kurbsky was promoted to the rank of boyar, the aristocratic order just below the rank of ruling princes.

For the tsar and his allies on the European continent, crushing Napoleon meant crushing the democratic infidel and saving the aristocratic order.

Their economic power challenged the age-old aristocratic order in German society, and, deprived of royal protection, they banded together to defend their autonomy.

His regula, which enjoined poverty, chastity, obedience, and stability, was followed until the 13th century by diverse orders, including the Knights Templars and most other paramilitary aristocratic orders, and it remains the rule of the Benedictine order today.

International soccer's aristocratic pecking order has proved no match for the opening of national borders, which in turn has increased the flow of talent among nations and allowed players from soccer's developing countries to refine their skills in countries with richer traditions and historically high standards of play.

Developing a wide-ranging diversification in its structure and sociological interests, Roman Catholic monasticism has extended all the way from the knightly orders to orders of mendicant friars, and it has included orders of decided feudal and aristocratic characteristics alongside orders of purely bourgeois characteristics.

Enduring all manner of humiliations, bouncing back from every setback, tacking right and left with the times, he embodies the triumph of raw ambition over aristocratic rules of order.

It was extremely revealing about the company's total reliance upon the Republican Party and its financial backers (companies and foundations that like themselves are controlled by America's most far-right aristocratic families) in order to deceive the general public to think that tobacco is safe and that government regulation is, itself, intrinsically wrong and bad, if not un-American.