Sentence examples for gain nobility from inspiring English sources

Automakers, too, can gain nobility with a check, and the Germans have been on a snob-appeal shopping spree.

Originally, there was a ritual which allowed commoners to marry nobles (puang) and thereby gain nobility for their children.

A regency was established under which the higher nobility gained control of the government and blocked the repossession of alienated crown lands.

The administration of the German king Wenceslas of Luxembourg (1373 78) provided a measure of strong government, but generally in the 14th century the local nobility gained considerable power at the expense of the elector and of the formerly free peasantry.

The French monarchy continued to make gains against the nobility during the late 12th and 13th centuries, bringing more territories within the kingdom under their personal rule and centralising the royal administration.

The Swedish nobility had gained about two-thirds of Swedish and Finnish soil through the transfer of crown property and of royal ground taxes.

The term cadet arose in France, where it was applied to younger sons of the nobility who gained commissioned rank after being attached for a time without pay to active army units.

The Russian nobility then gained power upon the ascension of the twelve-year-old Peter II.

With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people.

Drawing students from the royal family and nobility, the school gained an academic reputation for its thorough humanities curriculum.

Protected by William IX, duke of Aquitaine, and soon by a great part of the southern nobility, the movement gained ground in the south, and in 1119 the Council of Toulouse in vain ordered the secular powers to assist the ecclesiastical authority in quelling the heresy.