Sentence examples for had reigned from inspiring English sources

In the private quarters of the actual palace, too, dead silence had reigned.

And the neoliberal capitalist model that had reigned supreme for a generation had crashed.

Throughout the South, where Jim Crow had reigned, desegregation was a matter of simple justice.

Prince Rainier's family, the Grimaldis, had reigned for almost 700 years; Kelly's was second-generation Philadelphia Irish.

That was daring enough: CDs had reigned supreme for nearly a decade; most audiophiles figured vinyl was dead.

Queen Victoria had reigned for 63 years and 216 days when she died at 81 in 1901.

The emergence of non-Euclidean geometry undermined absolute acceptance of the theory of space and shape that had reigned since classical Greece.

This king, whose first name was Albert, took over from his elder brother, who had reigned for only 325 days.

Chaos had reigned over Somalia for a generation and there had been no real government since the military ruler, Siad Barre, fell in 1991.

This announcement just happened to coincide with the countdown to a crucial regional election in Baden-Württemberg, where the Christian Democrats had reigned for nearly 60 years.

The town had reigned as the chic capital of the island until the volcano erupted on May 8 , 1902 killing about 30,000 people.