Sentence examples for lay noble from inspiring English sources

Prior to the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1959, social classes among the Tibetans could be defined in terms of opposition: cleric versus lay, noble versus peasant, merchant versus labourer, agriculturalist versus nomad, and trader versus townsman.

The lay nobles found Louis IX a frustrating ruler.

If the empire's basic wealth did not increase in his reign, it was because he used it to fulfill the demands of his clerical friends, even as he bestowed duchies on lay nobles in order to appease them.

His "Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester" ("Here lies the noble warrior that never blunted sword / Here lies the noble courtier that never kept his word") is clear in its intent, and shows how a curse can last for centuries.

Words themselves don't lie, however noble the project.

Acting is based on lying, a noble type of lying, which is why I decided to tell the truth; it's my chief luxury".

It all had to be taken philosophically; for at the back of it lay the long, noble history he relished, beginning on English village greens and unrolling to a multicoloured razzmatazz future, in which deadly rivals would always break for tea together, in the most civilised and enjoyable way.

The idea of the noble peasant lay in wait in Irish long before the revivalists invented it.

This title would bring him into direct conflict with the Poynings family themselves, and indeed, feuds with neighbouring nobles, both lay and ecclesiastical, would be a key occupancy of his youth.

This shift is indeed a far more important aspect of Leo Strauss's influence than the occasional resort to Platonic "noble lies".

The words "Bailiff" and "Palace" make odd, if not disconcerting, bedfellows but the 16th-century mansion's origins lie with two noble families and the Lord of Aguilar, a dignitary of the ancient Order of Malta.