Sentence examples for hereditary rule from inspiring English sources

China's ruling party, unlike the one in neighboring North Korea, disavows hereditary rule.

Hereditary rule is rarely so benign.

Latvia and Estonia were to be merged into a grand duchy of the Baltikum under the hereditary rule of Prussia.

It was thus in Simon's reign that the rule of the priest-prince was transformed into a secular hereditary rule.

It showed him instead as intent on bolstering his father's main legacy of nuclear weapons and long-range missile programs to justify his own hereditary rule.

A typically irreverent Cairo joke has the president scolding courtiers who try to persuade him that hereditary rule is the regional fashion: "Egypt's traditions are thoroughly democratic.

Second, they could create a hereditary hierocracy (rule by priests), which the priest of the shrine at Shiloh, Eli, apparently attempted to inaugurate.

Remember, it was ruled by the Shah of Iran, who was a secular ruler, hereditary ruler of Iran.

It expressed a commitment to move beyond the "hereditary regimes, family rule, military rule, tribal culture and the absence of constitutionalism and rule of law" to a Libya defined by "stable political institutions and a stable code of laws".

A decade ago the movement, which champions the 40% Zaydi Shia minority whose hereditary leaders ruled much of the country until 1962, was a ragtag bunch of tribesmen squeezed by an army siege in the remote northern province of Saada.

Hereditary families ruled their respective territories and paid tribute to the empire while some areas, such as Keladi and Madurai, came under the direct supervision of a commander.