He ensured administrative stability by promoting the civil service examination system of drafting state bureaucrats by skill and merit (instead of aristocratic or military position) and promoted projects that ensured efficiency in communication throughout the empire.
Local aristocratic divisions, the privileged position of Florence (the Tuscan capital), and the corruption and private enrichment of public officials came under scrutiny.
Meanwhile, in response to the public dismay over long-term effects of football-related concussions, the league has swathed the quarterback in a crinoline of new rules of the game, which make it more difficult for pass rushers to legally hit him — advantages that further enhance the aristocratic primacy of the position.
Even the way she posed nude was positively aristocratic.
Not that the presidency of the United States is not a powerful position, with many aristocratic perks--it is.
The desire for a convention was so strong, even in aristocratic Fayette County, that Breckinridge's position nearly cost him his seat in the legislature.
Since the 15th century, the political power in the city cantons had become more and more concentrated in the hands of a few urban families, who increasingly saw their public offices as hereditary positions and who developed aristocratic and absolutist attitudes.
On the other hand, he reduced to a position of relative insignificance the aristocratic council of state, which had played the leading part in the constitutional struggles of the preceding century.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he would announce, "as you have seen, I have taken advantage of these tenderly nurtured and unsophisticated young ladies by placing them in positions extremely galling to their aristocratic sensibilities".
Meanwhile, back in Monaco, Grace Kelly's wedding to Prince Rainier "consolidated the popular passion for fashion and elevated aristocratic-type stars and models to a central position in its diffusion".
