Sentence examples for hereditary dynasty from inspiring English sources

This development enabled Judas and those who succeeded him to hold their own and eventually to establish a hereditary dynasty, known as the Hasmonean for their ancestor Hasmoneus.

In recent years, Kim Jong Nam has been reported to be the intended successor of his father, Kim Jong Il, 59, who succeeded his own father, Kim Il Sung, in 1994, making North Korea the world's only Communist hereditary dynasty.

When his son Yazid succeeded him (martyring the Prophet's grandson Husayn along the way), a hereditary dynasty was born and the Meccan elite were back in power.

His goals were limited but clear: his main concern was Egypt proper and the establishment of his family as a hereditary dynasty over it, while Syria remained a secondary objective.

The provinces of the Caliphate were now grouped into larger units, often controlled by a hereditary dynasty, like the Tahirids in Khurasan or the Samanids in Transoxiana, usually of Iranian descent.

The movement quickly became subdivided into hereditary dynasties associated with tzaddikim who are referred to by the names of their various locales.

But for a young country India's politics are depressingly feudal with hereditary dynasties, geriatric king-makers, religion and caste all playing a big role.

Even if you think that hereditary dynasties and extreme wealth for the few and hereditary, extreme poverty for the many is morally fine, the reality is that extreme wealth concentration distorts policy.

In 1995, Li, by then the director of the Institute of History, was appointed to head a government-funded scheme, the purpose of which was to determine the precise chronology of the first three hereditary dynasties, the Xia, Shang and Zhou.

This helped them to cement their hereditary dynasties, but also placed them at the forefront of a very religious society, acting as an intermediary to the Gods.

Elected imams tended to give way to hereditary dynasties, which then collapsed as a result of family disputes and the resurgence of Ibāḍī ideals.