Sentence examples for centralising monarchy from inspiring English sources
The characters extend from the ailing king and his troublesome heir to aristocrats fighting a rearguard action against a centralising monarchy, from hoary professional soldiers and risibly inept recruits to moralising archbishops, from tarts and highwaymen to potboys and ostlers, from the last champion of chivalry to the bitterest of cynics.
The Enlightenment, or Whig historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, decried anyone who impeded the development towards a centralised, constitutional monarchy, the way Warwick did in his struggles with Edward.
The new Bourbon monarchy tried to centralise control and with it the system of measurement.
This looks like a centralising not a de-centralising measure.
Because it couldn't produce leaders, centralised structures and a focused, unifying claim, it lost momentum and finally proved harmless to the monarchy.
Harald's contribution to the strengthening of Norway's monarchy was the enforcement of a policy that only the king could retain a hird, thus centralising power away from local warlords.
It was a collection of fiercely autonomous, proud and unruly tribes, suspicious of centralised rule (first there had been a substitute Ottoman regency, then a mandated principality, next a short-lived monarchy – the last king of Libya, Idris I, was Algerian), which they saw as a potential threat and to which they would only give allegiance to preserve their own independence.
The Jeffersonians supported farmers over monied interests and opposed centralising policies such as creating a national bank.The Federalists needed to show that they could keep a large republic together without sacrificing democracy, at a time when many political theorists thought a monarchy was required to keep a large country united.
