Sentence examples for nominal ruler from inspiring English sources

There, in this period, the first nominal ruler of Rus (called, like the Khazar emperor, khagan) is mentioned by Islamic and Western sources.

This was Robert Zuidam's "Rage d'Amours," which told of the strange, obsessive love of Queen Juana, the nominal ruler of Castile, for her unfaithful and later lifeless husband, Philip the Handsome.

Although Biron was overthrown by the vice-chancellor, Andrey Osterman, and Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph, Count von Münnich, three weeks later, Ivan remained the nominal ruler of Russia, and his mother was installed as regent.

The "narrative", as we say these days, called for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby to be a girl, so as to make worthwhile all Clegg's recent hard work on a non-sexist monarchy (or "throne" as our nominal ruler might be called, as in "chair").

Theodosius, who had to acknowledge the sovereignty of Gratian's stepbrother Valentinian II, born in 371 and the nominal ruler in Italy since the end of 375, could not interfere with Maximus, for he lacked both sufficient military strength and secure borders.

Shortly before he died early in 395, the emperor Theodosius I (the effective ruler of the whole empire) appointed Rufinus guardian of his son Arcadius and Stilicho guardian of his other son, Honorius, who had been made nominal ruler of the West.

The city's wealth gave it great political power and virtual autonomy from its nominal rulers, the counts of Flanders and (from 1384) the dukes of Burgundy.

From 946 until 968, real governmental power rested in the hands of the vizier, Abū al-Misk Kāfūr, though Ibn Ṭughj's sons Ūnūjūr and ʿAlī remained nominal rulers.

Much of the criminal justice system in Bengal remained in the hands of the nawab, the nominal local ruler of the company's territory.

He returned to Afghanistan leaving a Mughal puppet ruler in nominal control.

Mahmud II had by this time forged an alliance with his nominal subject, Muḥammad ʿAlī, the ruler of Egypt, and his son Ibrahim Pasha, who were promised lavish territorial rewards in return for their assistance in suppressing the revolt.