Sentence examples for from monarchy from inspiring English sources

The development on Sunday is yet another setback in Nepal's long and often torturous transition from monarchy to democratic republic.

When campaigning for office in 2012, Mr Hollande said he thought that the right of pardon should be abolished as an anachronistic legacy from monarchy.

Her emergence there as city goddess, Athena Polias ("Athena, Guardian of the City"), accompanied the ancient city-state's transition from monarchy to democracy.

"The development on Sunday is yet another setback in Nepal's long and often torturous transition from monarchy to democratic republic," they write.

Bhutan is a tiny, poor, once-isolated Himalayan nation well into the process of moving from monarchy to democracy and opening to the world.

Nepal's long path from monarchy to republic has come to this: an eviction notice for Gyanendra, the world's last Hindu king.

The idea of the soft landing is based on the gradual transition that Northern European countries made from monarchies to parliamentary systems.

The upshot of this is that we have seen, in the political governance sector, the shift from monarchies and dictatorships to democracy, where we have an effective set of checks and balances.

It was also in recognition that continued reliance on Middle East oil, particularly from Iran and Iraq but also from monarchies like Saudi Arabia, was highly problematic.

In the prolonged struggle for independence, they were all but ruined, and the change from absolute monarchy to popular democracy was far from easy.

In the US, the founding fathers set up checks and balances to protect democracy from mob rule on one side and from arbitrary monarchy on the other.