Sentence examples for roman throne from inspiring English sources
The lecturer at East Anglia University has discovered close similarities between a study of the two steely Roman queens – Tanaquil, who put two kings on the Roman throne, and Tullia, who brought a tyrant to power.
In AD69 at least two contenders for the Roman throne impersonated the missing emperor Nero (who had in fact committed suicide a year earlier); other fraudsters forged edicts in his name.
Indeed, as with 6000 am I (ad 500), the approach of 6000 am II brought an acute political crisis the "obstacle" of 2 Thessalonians had been removed, because the Byzantine (Roman) throne was occupied by a woman, Irene, and thus was technically vacant.
The last pope to stand down was Gregory XII, who did so in 1415 to end the damaging Western Schism, the split that divided the Catholic church for nearly 40 years and had, by the stage Gregory did the decent thing, reached the point where there were three different claimants to the papal throne: Roman Pope Gregory XII, Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII, and Pisan Antipope John XXIII.
This bill gave the succession to Mary's sister, Anne, in default of issue to Mary; barred Roman Catholics from the throne; abolished the Crown's power to suspend laws; condemned the power of dispensing with laws "as it hath been exercised and used of late"; and declared a standing army illegal in time of peace.
The Act debarred Roman Catholics from the throne thereby excluding the candidacy of several dozen people more closely related to Mary and Anne than Sophia.
Tiridates III, Arsacid claimant to the Armenian throne and Roman client, had been disinherited and forced to take refuge in the empire after the Persian conquest of 252 53.
Barjatya has a sly, winning way of mixing mythology with modernity: the Prince's horse-drawn carriage arrives with Forbes magazine in its reading rack, while there are nods to everything from the Ram-Leela legend to Game of Thrones via Roman Holiday.
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Instead, I shot them in typical Ethiopian photo studios filled with Roman pillars and golden thrones.
In season five of Game of Thrones, the Roman Bridge of Cordoba doubled as The Long Bridge of Volantis spanning the mouth of the Rhoyne River.
