Sentence examples for kinglike from inspiring English sources

This may also explain why he continued to serve the state even when Cromwell dissolved Parliament, in 1653, giving way to the autocracy of the Protectorate, in which Cromwell assumed virtually kinglike powers.

Vang Pao, a charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, then achieved almost kinglike status as their leader-in-exile in the United States, died Thursday in Clovis, Calif.

Simeon must cobble together a coalition cabinet and find a prime minister, and is likely to keep influencing events, kinglike, from behind the scenes.

"My life is very different from most 12-year-olds," said King Oyo, fidgeting with a rubber band tied around his royal wrist and looking both kinglike and kidlike at once.

But in a country where presidents have enjoyed kinglike powers and often acted with regal arrogance, Mr. Fox's magnanimous bearing has seemed a remarkable shift.

Mexican presidents have enjoyed kinglike powers, and few senior officials had ever dared disagree publicly with them.

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