Sentence examples for king's orders from inspiring English sources

On the king's orders a ruthless henchman named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés tore across the Atlantic and brutally massacred the French.

She later added that she and her husband had spoken to Shaima, who told them: "The king's orders washed the fears I lived with after this unjust sentence".

The king's order was received with praise by Saudi media, who referred to his brilliant vision – as is the custom for all of the king's orders, policies, speeches and actions.

The speed at which oil revenue is brought into the finance ministry's coffers must also be increased, and the letter says the king's orders must be implemented immediately, provided no outstanding contractual rights are affected.

Antigonus, played with powerful feeling by David Rubin, faces a harsher doom for obeying his king's orders, being dispatched with Shakespeare's most famous stage direction — "Exit, pursued by a bear" — when he journeys to Bohemia and abandons the king's newborn baby to the cruelties of the elements.

With those words, Mr. Bassiouni captured the challenge of the commission's work: what was the nature of the repression — systematic and orchestrated by the state, as the opposition insists, or the authorities' acting arbitrarily and independent of one another across a landscape in which even the king's orders were ignored, as Mr. Bassiouni suggests?

A crisis arose in 1051 when Godwine defied the king's order to punish the men of Dover, who had resisted an attempt by Eustace of Boulogne to quarter his men on them by force.

Most Bhutanese would have preferred to preserve royal rule, but loyally obeyed the king's order to rule themselves.This month the reluctant delegates and tens of thousands of other Bhutanese flocked to the Tashichho Dzong, a white-walled fortress and monastery, to celebrate the coronation of their new 28-year-old king.

The envy of fellow artists, who accused Velázquez of only being able to paint heads, is said to have been the occasion of the king's ordering him to paint a historical subject, the Expulsion of the Moriscos (lost), in competition with other court painters.

When Edmund, along with the others, ignored the king's order to return to England, his lands were confiscated in March 1326.

Duke Béla, who had previously been informed by his partisans in Andrew's court that he would be murdered on the king's order if he opted for the crown, chose the sword.