Sentence examples for illustrious dynasty from inspiring English sources

Tim Floyd arrived hoping to coach Michael Jordan and add more N.B.A. championships to the Chicago Bulls' illustrious dynasty.

Egypt's 90% Muslim majority has been solidly Sunni since the 12th century, when the warrior-hero Saladin reimposed Sunni orthodoxy after routing the Fatimids, an illustrious dynasty of Ismaili Shias which had ruled for two centuries.

In "God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215," his fast-paced and provocative new study, David Levering Lewis, the author of a much-acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois, provides a fascinating account of "this hunted survivor of an illustrious dynasty," as he aptly puts it; and yet, he may read too much into the man.

Documents released at the National Archives in Kew, west London, reveal how Mrs Thatcher became exasperated after police and prosecutors insisted there were no grounds for prosecuting Mr Chauhan despite his trenchant rhetoric against India's most illustrious political dynasty.

I am proud to be a member of Serbia's illustrious warrior dynasty.

Hitherto an obscure figure, John became the figurehead of the uprising because of his imperial blood, as he was descended from the illustrious Komnenian dynasty (1081 1185), but the real driving force behind his coup was probably the ambitious Alexios Doukas Mourtzouphlos.

The one and a half minute long clip appears to show a wizened old man, adorned in the appropriate ceremonial clothing and same knotted beard as the chosen son of the illustrious Scandinavian techno dynasty.

And while at times Shias have thrived under Sunni rule, in Mughal India for example, Sunnis fared well during the reign of the Fatimids, an illustrious and tolerant Ismaili Shia dynasty that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the heart of what is now Saudi Arabia from the 10th to the 12th centuries.More recently, concerned Muslims have made sincere attempts to reconcile the branches.

Because she is the scion of a gilded dynasty, Ivanka's illustrious lineage may hold a certain appeal for many Chinese, but how she lives clashes considerably with the image that she projects as the winning prototype of the new, self-possessed woman.

He is regarded as an illustrious member of Holland's medical dynasty, and as a pioneer in the fields of chemical physiology and chemotherapy.

He summoned Lin Bao Yao, a scholar at the Taipei National University of Arts, who studied the piece and traced it to Shandong Province in eastern China, and to the Sui dynasty, a precursor to the illustrious Tang dynasty.