Sentence examples for monarchial from inspiring English sources

Though the Davidic monarchy continued in Judah until the fall of Jerusalem in 586 bce, the monarchial situation in Israel was one of constant turmoil and confusion, except for the periods of a few dynasties.

When Nāṣer was assassinated by a fanatic in 1896, the crown passed to his son Moẓaffar od-Dīn Shāh (reigned 1896 1907), a weak and incompetent ruler who was forced in 1906 to grant a constitution that called for some curtailment of monarchial power.

He wrote to Thomas Jefferson lamenting that Washington had engaged in an "assumption of prerogatives not clearly found in the Constitution and having the appearance of being copied from a monarchial model".

Preservation scientists at the Library of Congress have discovered that Thomas Jefferson, even in the act of declaring independence from England, had trouble breaking free from monarchial rule.

Shortly before he died, the actor Ossie Davis explained how he came up with the term "our own black shining prince" in his eulogy of Malcolm X: "I don't know why the image of a monarchial situation came to me to deal with Malcolm, who certainly was a man of the people," he says.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany "avoids risk and is seldom creative"; a "penchant for partying hard" has left Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy "a complete mess"; President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is thin-skinned and has "monarchial tendencies"; Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia is like a Mafia godfather but also "resents or resists the workload he carries".

Their pleas were shouted down with charges that the rank of admiral was too British and too rooted in the monarchial traditions that the American Revolution had fought to overturn.

The seizure of the Grand Mosque at Mecca the same year by Islamic radicals might have brought a tyranny far worse than that of monarchial Saudi Arabia.

Surely reserved monarchial powers could be a dangerous thing in the hands of someone who is, as Turnbull put it, "a potential alternate centre of political power to the prime minister and the parliament".

After their overthrow of the monarchial state, Nepal's Maoists went on to participate in elections.

The new political structure was built on a monarchial-feudal framework characteristic of the time, but it was controlled by the energetic and uncompromising Robert, who tried to use his ducal power to create a powerful and prosperous state.