Sentence examples for temporal powers from inspiring English sources

But Mr Salazar reckons that temporal powers can help too.

The president delivering his address is not like a monarch, whose dutifully respectful reception is conditioned on the hard-won limitation of her temporal powers.

About 1470 the reigning Tuʿi Tonga transferred his temporal powers to his brother under the title of Tuʿi Haʿa Takalaua.

When the new worshipers took down the American and Israeli flags in front of the sanctuary, rolled them up and laid them on the floor -- they objected to the appearance of praying to temporal powers -- the older congregants were incensed.

The papacy was stripped of its temporal powers, states and most of its property in 1870 under the Risorgimento, the 19th-century movement that united Italy from a quilt of tiny kingdoms, republics and foreign-occupied territories.

Sarpi was a friar and, by his lights, a loyal Catholic, but he was also a loyal Venetian and hence an opponent of the temporal powers of the pope.

The pope's temporal power was lost.

The city's story is one of exchanging temporal power for a somewhat shakier spiritual sway.

As Hughes consolidated his spiritual and temporal power in New York, his national profile also rose.

Carlo Maderna's exuberant galleon fountain gushes water from its cannon, a reminder of the papacy's past temporal power.

In an age of the divine right of kings, devotion to God and devotion to temporal power were united.