Sentence examples for rule the empire from inspiring English sources

The words on Nobunaga's official seal say it all: "Rule the empire by force".

In Constantinople, after troubles reaching back to 790, the empress Irene had her son Constantine VI blinded and deposed in 797 and took his place, the first woman to rule the empire in her own right.

Umayyad dynasty, also spelled Omayyad, the first great Muslim dynasty to rule the empire of the Caliphate (661 750 ce), sometimes referred to as the Arab kingdom (reflecting traditional Muslim disapproval of the secular nature of the Umayyad state).

She returned for a moment to "The Emperor's New School," in which she is the voice of Yzma, "the naughty, evil character who wants to rule the empire herself and get on the throne," she said.

Rather than continue to rule the empire for his full designated six months, or even accept the military honors due him, Cincinnatus tendered his resignation on day sixteen and returned to his small farm, grateful to have been of service.

Within twenty-five years of the persecution's inauguration, the Christian Emperor Constantine would rule the empire alone.

Abdülhamid, who ruled the empire for thirty-three of its last forty-six years, was a deeply anxious man, perhaps paranoid.

The great pity is that Emperor Franz Josef II, who ruled the empire from 1848 to 1916, enjoyed robust good health, living to the overripe old age of 86 and blocking the changes that modernity required of his country.

For at their peak, under the Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, who ruled the empire from 193 to 211 A.D., the three great cities of the Libyan coast, Leptis Magna, Oea and Sabratha, rivaled Rome itself in splendor, architecture and wealth.

Built soon after the absorption of Palmyra into Rome's sphere of influence, it was dedicated in 32AD, at a time when Tiberius ruled the empire, and Jesus still walked the Earth.

Turkey's renewed interest in its Ottoman past is often associated with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose "neo-Ottomanist" political program has tried to rehabilitate figures like Sultan Süleyman, who ruled the empire from 1520 to 1566.