Sentence examples for theocratic empire from inspiring English sources
They dreamed of creating their own theocratic empire, in a land they called Zion.
Yet half a lifetime later, that unlettered ex-husbandman ruled over a theocratic empire as large as France.
Just like the "useful idiots" of the 30s, they are giving aid and comfort to Muslim extremists, in the deluded hope (to quote Cohen) that the Islamists will "shake themselves and say, 'fair enough, we realise that now you've addressed our root cause, we don't want a theocratic empire after all'".
In the flood plains of the Inner Niger Delta, in what today is central Mali, one of Dan Fodio's disciples, a Fulani orphan named Ahmad bin Muhammad Boubou bin Abi Bakr bin Sa'id al Fulani Lobbo, led an Islamic rebellion and founded the theocratic empire of Massina.
The Caliphs set out to establish a theocratic world empire after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632.
The new measures augmented individual rights, upending an old theocratic order that placed the empire's Christians beneath its Muslims, and they promised greater equality for Armenians.
The theocratic elements of Christianity developed more solidly in the empire of Constantinople, which was able to sustain a viable political structure even as the Western Empire was collapsing.
These reforms, heavily influenced by European ideas, were intended to effectuate a fundamental change of the empire from the old system based on theocratic principles to that of a modern state.
In Egypt, the fact that building a Christian church requires leave from the head of state is a direct legacy of a (liberalising) Ottoman decree of 1856.Tactical manoeuvresBut the Ottoman empire is by no means the only semi-theocratic realm whose influence is still palpable in the governance of religious affairs, including conversion.
This theocratic identification of the pax romana Christiana (Latin: "peace of the Christian Roman Empire") with Isaiah's vision of the peace of the nations (2 1 3) would become one of the most important elements of political Christianity until the end of the Wars of Religion (late 16th century).
Long a borderland between Persian and Arab empires, the country still struggles to balance the ambitions of Iran, the powerful theocratic neighbor whose nuclear program has become a profound concern to the United States and its allies.
