Sentence examples for required the king from inspiring English sources

King Henry's Articles, signed by each king since 1573, required the king to call a general sejm (lasting six weeks) every two years, and provisions for an extraordinary sejm (Polish: sejm ekstraordynaryjny, nadzwyczajny) that was to last two weeks were also set down in this act.

The hieroglyphic texts on the stelae describe how some of the calendrical ceremonies required the king to perform ritual dance and bloodletting.

The crisis having been weathered, the new king and queen set out to remove some of the stuffiness from royal life, dispensing, for instance, with the custom of requiring the king's daughters to curtsy to him.

Aistulf's continued aggression required the Frankish king to use force to protect Stephen and papal territory.

Acts of the king required the countersignature of the respective minister.

Building a castle sometimes required the permission of the king or other high authority.

Legal codes required the approval of the king, but they were treated as guidelines which could be adapted and added to at local level, rather than a fixed canon of regulations, and customary oral law was also important in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Enormously challenging technically, and therefore expensive and time consuming, it required the patronage of kings, queens and other fabulously rich and powerful people.

Clauses 39 and 40 demanded due process be applied in the royal justice system, while clause 45 required that the king appoint knowledgeable royal officials to the relevant roles.

Sometimes he himself has been regarded as divine and has become the key figure in fertility rituals; such religions often ultimately required the death either of the king himself or of an official substitute as a sacrifice to the gods.

But some go above and beyond with signature dishes that require the fortune of a king, as well.