Sentence examples for nobility lost from inspiring English sources

Soon afterward, Siena itself turned Guelf, and the Ghibelline nobility lost its share of power.

After 1583, however, the old nobility lost its bid to monopolize politics, and the Senate recovered power, which it applied to a more independent foreign policy.

The house of nobility lost the last of its official privileges in 2003.

The common method of grinding and mashing ingredients into pastes and the many potages and sauces has been used as an argument that most adults within the medieval nobility lost their teeth at an early age, and hence were forced to eat nothing but porridge, soup and ground-up meat.

His father, a member of the German nobility who lost his fortune following World War II, was a Lufthansa executive who moved around the world.

Born into the ranks of the nobility, Oxford lost his father when he was 12 and became a ward of William Cecil, the powerful secretary to Queen Elizabeth.

The mid-16th century also saw the triumph of the devşirme over the Turkish nobility, which lost almost all its power and position in the capital and returned to its old centres of power in southeastern Europe and Anatolia.

Punjabi nobility had lost their status with the arrival of the British, and hence were bitter towards them.

Contrary to the jabberings of the embrace debate crowd on cable, there is no nobility to losing if you don't have to.

The trouble with liberals, Robert Kennedy complained in 1964, was that they were "in love with death" — they romanticized failure, finding greater nobility in losing the whole loaf than in winning half of it.

When they fail to do so, the nobility will lose its spirit of moderation, and the government will be corrupted.