Sentence examples for monarch without from inspiring English sources

Although the French president has been described as a "monarch without a crown", he doesn't command the same distance and respect.

After taking the throne nearly 64 years ago, King Bhumibol expanded his role as a constitutional monarch without political power into an enormous moral force, earned through his civic work and political astuteness.

A constitutional monarch without direct political power, King Bhumibol has painstakingly earned the devotion of his subjects through civic works projects and a quiet, almost humble style in his 63 years on the throne.

The Law Commission itself has also collected a list of odd laws and legal myths which includes several of Sargeant's favourites and points out that the tradition that it is illegal to stand within 100 yards of the monarch without wearing socks is not true.

Legend has it that Queen Leonor's handmaidens, seeing the monarch without her usual brilliance after selling off her jewellery, embroidered her cloak so that it appeared to have golden threads.

Jane was long thought to be the only 16th-century English monarch without a surviving contemporary portrait; one was documented in a 1590 inventory, but is now considered lost.

We can live like monarchs without compromising the Earth's capacity to sustain us.

Monarchs without title, they intermarried with the Protestant dynasties: William III, the grandson of Charles I of England and great-grandson of Henry IV of France, married Mary Stuart and became, with her, joint sovereign of England in 1689.

But when they looked at the expression of the clock genes in the brains of monarchs without antennae, everything appeared normal, suggesting that a separate clock existed in the antennae.

We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

The Monarchs are without 6-6 forward Leon Gibson, who is being treated for a collapsed lung.