Sentence examples for noble power from inspiring English sources

William thinks that of these, the will is by far the more noble power, and he is accordingly puzzled by the fact that neither Aristotle nor Avicenna have much to say about it.

Some of the reforms of Isabella I which reduced noble power were reversed as a price for luring the nobility to the royalist side.

As time passed and the likelihood of children from the marriage receded, Catherine's youngest son, Francis, Duke of Alençon, known as "Monsieur", played upon his role as heir to the throne, repeatedly exploiting the anarchy of the civil wars, which were by now as much about noble power struggles as religion.

With capital shifted from the manufacturing and service sectors to agricultural production of cash crops such as olive oil, wine, and raw silk, the number of skilled urban craftsmen and merchants decreased while that of illiterate peasants increased, and landed-noble power intensified.

Around the middle of Sesostris III's reign, the rich provincial tombs, which were a mark of the nobles' power, abruptly ceased to be built.

Ignoring the royal charter of 1483, John expanded the authority of his office and further offset the nobles' power by supporting the Danish merchant class against its chief rivals, the traders of the Hanseatic League (a north German trading confederation).

"Any risk from these minuscule groups — the people and the noble revolutionary power will violently and thunderously respond," said a pro-government newspaper, Al Zahf Al Akhdar.

Either personally provoked by a patrician or impelled by purely political reasons, Falier led a plebeian plot to kill all the nobles, whose power would revert to the people and to the doge in particular.

Specifically, the French king and the nobles, whose power is such that they would be able to oppress the populace, are checked by the laws of the realm which are enforced by the independent authority of the Parlement.

City councils often disputed royal, noble or churchly power.

But anonymity is not of itself a noble virtue; its power can also be abused.