Sentence examples for provincial nobles from inspiring English sources

Provincial nobles were drawn into cooperation with the royal administration and shared in the profits made from exploiting the system.

During the reigns of his predecessors, the provincial nobles of Middle Egypt had enhanced their power through royal favours and intermarriage with the families of neighbouring potentates.

This apostasy was joined by many in the royal court but met with violent resistance from the provincial nobles, the church, and the people at large.

Powerful provincial nobles drew talent away from the capital, and, because of the unusually long reign of the king, Egypt had a senile ruler when it needed vigorous leadership.

One of his first acts as emperor was to break up the provinces into smaller districts with personally appointed governors, a move that angered many provincial nobles who saw their status diminished.

This Robin is no socialist bandit practicing freelance wealth redistribution, but rather a manly libertarian rebel striking out against high taxes and a big government scheme to trample the ancient liberties of property owners and provincial nobles.

Thus, the power of patronage, which had been exercised for generations in provincial noble households, began to lose its political significance as the king's ministers built up their own alternative administrative clienteles.

During the 1490s the rivalries intensified among the former provincial governors, other high nobles, and Qāsim Barīd, who was the effective head of the government at the Bahmanī capital.

It includes national, provincial, and civic arms, noble and personal arms, ecclesiastical heraldry, heraldic displays as corporate logos, and Canadian heraldic descriptions.

Contemporaneously, the provincial colleagues of the Memphite nobles developed quite different tombs in Middle and Upper Egypt.

The public school system consisted of schools for nobles, national schools, and provincial schools.