Sentence examples for service nobility from inspiring English sources

They're called service nobility.

Minimum educational standards had to be met by officers and officials, and they came to play a crucial role in both the careers and the social status of the service nobility.

In so doing he hoped to create a professional service nobility unconnected with the land and totally devoted to the state, but the resistance the law met in its application forced its revocation in 1731.

This move toward oligarchy was foiled by top-level officials (the generalitet i.e., those with the service rank of general or its equivalent), in alliance with the rank-and-file service nobility.

The continuing domination of a few favourites many of whom were Germans much displeased the high officials, whose position was threatened by the personal caprices of ruler or favourite, and incensed even more the rank and file of the service nobility, who could not obtain rewards or favours from the sovereign without the approval and help of the favourites.

The changes that made Peter's reign the most seminal in Russian history were not the administrative reforms and the military conquests, significant as those were, but the transformation in the country's culture and style of life, at least among the service nobility.

From the 16th to the 19th Century, the port serviced European nobility's cravings for cake, and the whitewashed fortifications harboured unimaginable treasures in sugar and spice.

These detail-savvy stewards are trained in regard to the highest standards by the Guild of Professional Butlers (they're the ones that provide butler service for celebrities and nobility!).

Most were in some sense in the service of the major nobility, either in terms of land or military obligations, roughly half sharing with them their name and a distant and often uncertain form of kinship.

He enlisted the nobility in the service of the state and thus provided them with numerous economic benefits.

In his speeches, Mr. Bush describes Mr. Cheney, 59, as "humble," "strong," "steady" and someone who has brought "nobility to public service".