Sentence examples for powerful favourite from inspiring English sources

Simultaneously, the king's one-man rule, which was exercised through his powerful favourite Magnus Brahe, became even more emphatic.

Inspired by the Persian love of dried fruit, I've used dried cranberries along with cumin seeds (one of Iran's powerful favourite spices – the other is saffron).

Under his father's powerful favourite, Graf Adam von Schwarzenberg, Brandenburg had changed sides from the Swedes to the Habsburgs and had thus been drawn into the struggle on both sides.

Following Buckingham's death in 1628, when it was safer to do so, a translation of a history by Pierre Matthieu was published under the title, The Powerful Favourite, the life of Aelius Sejanus.

Assuming he owed his promotion to the king's increasingly powerful favourite, George Villiers, (1592-1628), later first Duke of Buckingham), he sent him a great jewel as a token of thanks.

Her influence over James visibly waned as he became openly dependent on powerful favourites.

Anne reacted very differently to the two powerful favourites who dominated the second half of her husband's English reign, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and George Villiers, the future Duke of Buckingham.

He fell from favour when the Frenchman Esmé Stewart, Sieur d'Aubigny, first cousin of James's father Lord Darnley, and future Earl of Lennox, arrived in Scotland and quickly established himself as the first of James's powerful male favourites.

In 1579 the Frenchman Esmé Stewart, Sieur d'Aubigny, first cousin of James' father Lord Darnley, arrived in Scotland and quickly established himself as the closest of the then 13-year-old James's powerful male favourites; he was created Earl of Lennox by the king in 1580, and Duke of Lennox in 1581.

We could also have avoided making the West's least favourite power, Iran, simultaneously much more powerful and much more paranoid.

In 2010 two prominent Chinese scientists, Rao Yi of Peking University and Shi Yigong of Tsinghua University, wrote in an editorial in Science that "to obtain major grants in China, it is an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favourite experts".