Sentence examples for monarch alone from inspiring English sources

The chief executive is the monarch, who governs in close consultation with the prime minister in all matters except the judiciary; the monarch alone holds the power to appoint judges, grant clemency, and commute prison sentences.

The monarch alone can grant membership.

The monarch alone appoints members of the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, the Royal Victorian Order and the Order of Merit.

However, because a treaty cannot interface with United Kingdom law without an enabling Act of Parliament (such as the European Communities Act 1972) the monarch alone cannot bring one into force.

Bolingbroke never declares directly that he intends to topple the reigning monarch, let alone murder him.

The monarch arrived alone as she made the visit "quietly and privately", a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said.

It would be a sad day if the last grizzly in the lower 48 were poor Monarch, forever alone on the California flag.

When his elder brother, Arthur, died in 1502, Henry became the heir to the throne; of all the Tudor monarchs, he alone spent his childhood in calm expectation of the crown, which helped give an assurance of majesty and righteousness to his willful, ebullient character.

The monarch was not alone in performing the rituals of the Maundy service; Henry III's children assisted him as part of their political and religious training.

The last time he saw a live butterfly, let alone a monarch, was in 1981.

Meanwhile her proud boast to have once cooked a banquet for the late king provides a straight path back to calmer, happier times when no one would have considered dragging a gentleman, let alone a monarch, from his own table.