Sentence examples for personal kingdom from inspiring English sources

This idea of a tiny, personal kingdom keeps the play a properly humble tragedy rather than a grand one; it isn't "King Lear," after all.

They arrested China's security chief, Zhou Yongkang, a former oil baron with the jowls of an Easter Island statue, who had built the police and military into a personal kingdom that received more funding each year for domestic spying and policing than it did for foreign defense.

From 1995 through 2000, Joseph P. Ganim, the mayor of Bridgeport, stole taxpayer money, took bribes, indulged a taste for luxury food and clothes and ran his impoverished city like a personal kingdom, prosecutors said on the opening day of the mayor's long-awaited corruption trial.

Probably the most famous literary work is Rudyard Kipling's classic story "The Man Who Would be King," about two British charlatans, Peachey Carnehan and Danny Dravot, who go to the lawless fictional province of Kafiristan with a plan to turn it into their personal kingdom.

Potemkin focused instead on Russia's southern provinces, where he was busy founding cities (including Sevastopol) and creating his own personal kingdom, including his brand new Black Sea Fleet.

But I know too much about the shadowy forces that have been working relentlessly over the past decade-and-a-half trying to turn Texas into their own personal kingdom.

Primarily interested in extending his own personal realm, he agreed to support the antipope Clement VII, who promised him Itria, a kingdom to be created in central Italy.

F6: "It is not only that they do not have faith in us…I get the impression that they rather are "afraid" of us, I don't mean it in a real sense, but as intruders we invade their personal space their kingdom where they rule and feel challenged… they feel that they need to be protected against us and the easiest way to achieve this is by exercising their power over us…and this can take many forms".

The least secure fellow, in any age, are the big fellows with their personal empires and Kingdoms and all the responcibilities and ulcers that go with kingdoms.

The territory first came under monarchical rule in 1261, when the populace accepted the overlordship of the King of Norway; by 1360, Norway had entered into a personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark, which became more entrenched with the union of the kingdoms into Denmark Norway in 1536.

Nawaz Sharif owes the kingdom a personal debt.