Sentence examples for regal power from inspiring English sources

He believed in monarchical sovereignty but advocated a Cortes as a check on arbitrary regal power.

After the fall of the kings (c. 509 bc) the consulship preserved regal power in a qualified form.

He must understand that the exploitation of regal power on issues of public controversy is itself a monstrous carbuncle - on the face of democracy.

Regal power exercised to set and limit the terms of an art form can also poison it: we should be thankful modern dance has no Royal Academy to police its development and resist the play that keeps it alive.

This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.

And if they chance to see the shooting of a star, they presently pronounce their king guilty of some offence against the gods, and thereupon he is immediately suspended from all exercise of regal power, till he is relieved by an oracle from Delphi or Olympia.

The Congress Party, which won the recent election, was strenously opposed by a group of princes whose states have been merged with one or another of the new states and who have lost their regal powers.

Anglican bishops in England place over their shield a mitre; but the bishop of Durham, as a bishop palatinate (bishop of a county whose lord had regal powers), has the mitre in a ducal coronet (a coronet decorated with three strawberry leaves), and behind his shield is a sword and crosier in saltire (diagonally crossed).

The New Yorker, May 3 , 1952P. 81 The Congress Party, which won the recent election, was strenously opposed by a group of princes whose states have been merged with one or another of the new states and who have lost their regal powers.

By Santha Rama Rau The New Yorker, May 3, 1952 P. 81 The Congress Party, which won the recent election, was strenously opposed by a group of princes whose states have been merged with one or another of the new states and who have lost their regal powers.

Gaveston's appointment came with wider authority than Ulster's, however, for he had full regal powers to appoint and dismiss any royal officers.