Sentence examples for aristocratic rule from inspiring English sources

What happened: In 1789, the French people decided they'd had enough of aristocratic rule.

Toward the end of the Mycenaean period the Thessali entered the fertile plain from Thesprotía in southern Epirus and imposed an aristocratic rule on the older inhabitants.

Nor has the appeal of the Middle Ages — the age of holy wars, plagues, miracles, magic, religion and aristocratic rule — diminished.

Insofar as both phenomena represent reactions against aristocratic rule, it is reasonable loosely to associate the two, but it is important to realize that the theory, however seductive, is in its strict form a modern construction.

These offices became the focus of factional struggle among the aristocratic families and later, with the weakening of aristocratic rule, the chief prizes in a contest of power between the nobility and the common citizens.

This is a book that looks back as far as 450 B.C. Whether, in our hyperdemocratic age, there is a market for such a classical defense of aristocratic rule must be doubtful.

The history of Europe's great medieval cities, like Bruges, is replete with organized opposition to aristocratic rules.

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.

While the latter had grown significantly during the peaceful years of aristocratic imperial rule, they suffered for centuries during the medieval period when warrior regimes preferred the arts of war as a means to power over the Confucian foundations of moral virtue and ritual refinement.

Membership is confined to Roman Catholics, and the central organization is essentially aristocratic, being ruled chiefly by a primary class of "professed" knights of justice and chaplains who can prove the nobility of their four grandparents for two centuries.

When the People's Republic of China took control of Tibet in 1950 it was an extremely underdeveloped country where a tiny religious and aristocratic elite ruled over a mass of poor peasants embedded in "a caste-like social hierarchy".