Sentence examples for old dynasty from inspiring English sources

The rickety old dynasty teeters on.

But if this was the old dynasty finally giving way to the new, it was a worthy exchange for both sides.

He epitomises the very feature of the constitution that the meritocrats of New Labour find repugnant, namely that under Britain's present arrangements people like the Cecils are still born to rule.This is, after all, a very old dynasty.

The arena was pulsating, loud and boisterous, like all the afternoons at Madison Square Garden when the Knicks were in the game, like the night in Salt Lake City when the old dynasty was trying to keep the peasants from crossing the moat.

Once the dominant force in Britain, it remained a powerful kingdom, but the end of the old dynasty of kings with the death of Osric in 729 led to conflict between rival families for the throne.

If you squinted real hard, you could make out shapes that reminded you of the old dynasties, but there was no escaping how much everything had changed, Joe Lemire writes on SI.com.

Jigme Khesar, like his father before him, is hugely popular.The new king, the fifth of the 100-year-old dynasty, pledged to follow the path of democratisation and development embarked on by his 52-year-old father.

Srikanda Stpathy, a sculptor of Hindu idols, is the last of a 700-year-old dynasty of craftsmen stretching back to the great bronze casters of the Chola empire.

This month, I chatted with Burt about what that story says about how Trump, a real-estate magnate who has been in office only fourteen months, might deal with Kim Jong Un, the third leader in a seventy-year-old dynasty, during the President's first stab at real nuclear diplomacy.

The papacy is the world's oldest dynasty, and that is its burden.

The older dynasty understood the psychological Art of War, intending to rattle the little dynasty, diminishing Xiao Bushi before the conservative (but fickle) base he has s assiduously catered to.