Sentence examples for monarchy first from inspiring English sources

Lawyers and Citizens Oxford University Presss, 1994) examined the politicization of the French legal profession in the eighteenth century, showing how spaces for radical criticism of the French monarchy first opened up within the structure of the French state itself.

"The King's Speech," the favorite to win best picture and the Oscar front-runner with a dozen nominations overall, is set in the 1930s, when Britain's monarchy first had to be heard and not just seen.

True, one or two excellent critiques of the modern monarchy have been published in the past 60 years, and a second edition of Tom Nairn's classic attack, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy, first published in 1988, has just appeared.

A discussion of the merits of a monarchy, from first principles, must wait for another day.

Royal gaffe: From the hand of friendship to the foot in the mouth The Prince isn't losing his touch: It was a historic day for both papacy and monarchy: the first official state visit to Britain by a pope since Henry VIII's matrimonial entanglements became even more complicated than those of the current Queen's offspring.

Though he consolidated the practice of modern conscription introduced by the Directory, one of the restored monarchy's first acts was to end it.

The Constitutions made the Kingdom of Sicily an absolute monarchy, the first centralized state in Europe to emerge from feudalism; it also set a precedent for the primacy of written law.

Polls show that a third of the country wants to keep the monarchy, a third wants to abolish it and the remainder don't care much.

On May 1, protesters plan another rally in Moroccan cities to demand a faster transition to a constitutional monarchy, the third such protest since Feb. 20.

Though two sons of the prophet Nathan served Solomon, one as a court official and another as a priest, the prophetic movement apparently was little encouraged by the united monarchy's third king.

From the fight to expand personal liberty and parliamentary authority relative to the monarchy in sixteenth century England, to the New Deal's pathbreaking policy and spending cures for the Great Depression, to the end of the Vietnam War, it reminds us that liberation struggles got ugly, and then they got better.