Is it likely, opponents of ObamaCare ask, that those Founders would have given a president and Congress the kind of power they would never have permitted a distant king and Parliament to exercise over us? "Justices should understand," Mr. Obama said in a stern and almost menacing tone, that to rule this law unconstitutional would be an act of "judicial activism".
For the most part, opponents' stumbles have kept the Kings within distant view of a playoff berth.
Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.
The drama began as actual bulls rushed down the court, on axis with the distant mountain, toward the king on his throne.
His relationship with the king was distant, and Catholic zealots provoked Marie de Médicis into a state of hysteria concerning the man who, she believed, had deprived her of influence.
After Offa's death his distant relative Coenwulf became king, and petitioned the pope to have Lichfield returned to a simple bishopric.
Dr. Fatima Haji alleged that she was blindfolded and beaten in an effort to make her confess to faking the injuries to protesters during her Al Jazeera interview; she later identified her interrogator as a distant relative of the king.
In 736, only two years later, K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat received a visit from Wamaw K'awiil, the high king of distant Calakmul, while Copán was one of Tikal's oldest allies.
Moreover, Xunzi was resolutely opposed to any attempt to make changes to the Way, whether to adjust it to changed circumstances or otherwise; in his view, the time for innovation lay in the distant past, with the sage kings.
The days of the high-scoring, free-wheeling Kings are a distant mirage now.
Ramkhamhaeng's kingdom was built upon the personal power and magnetism of an exceptional ruler, and when the king died, his distant vassals soon broke away.
