Sentence examples for hereditary aristocracy from inspiring English sources

There was, however, no hereditary aristocracy.

There was never a feudal system, or a hereditary aristocracy.

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Ottoman state was the irrelevance of hereditary aristocracy.

The Republicans, by getting rid of inheritance tax, seem hell-bent on ignoring Teddy Roosevelt's warnings about the dangers of a hereditary aristocracy.

The halting of their advance was instrumental, he writes, in creating "an economically retarded, balkanized, and fratricidal Europe that... made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, persecutory religious intolerance, cultural particularism, and perpetual war".

That is, it depicts the hereditary aristocracy in terms of smell: pomade and perfume and makeup hardly conceal the dubious sanitary conditions of the teeming cities, where the royal pageantry can't keep the livestock away.

Most such social aristocracies both legally and factually have been hereditary aristocracies.

In hereditary aristocracies, debacles tend to flow from stupidity and pigheadedness: think of the Charge of the Light Brigade or the Battle of the Somme.

Oligarchy, or rule of a few over the many, comes in many different guises: * Hereditary landed aristocracy, which (Russell argues) tends to be "conservative, proud, stupid, and rather brutal" (Russell 1938 151); * The bourgeoisie, a merchant class who had to earn their wealth.

During this period, an increasingly powerful bourgeoisie began "contesting many of the hereditary privileges of the aristocracy" and arrogating to itself the nobility's onetime "monopoly over style, beauty, fashion, luxury and even fame".

To reiterate, conservatism is not essentially associated with aristocracy and hereditary forms of government, or opposed to democracy.