9 sentences with 'nobles'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nobles and other words derived from it.
• « In 1517, the nobles of Carinthia and Styria, a wealthy region of Austria, had founded the Order of the Knights of St. Christopher. Their apostolate: "To eradicate the poisonous custom of knightly tournaments and the consumption of alcoholic beverages"... However, it would be a long time before the scientific, social and cultural view of alcoholism would be fundamentally changed. »
• « Their nobles had more power than the nobility of the Old Kingdom as well, playing important political roles in their lands. »
• « In 399 BC, Macedonia was plunged into an ongoing civil war, in which the nobles openly rejected the king's authority and the country slid into anarchy. »
• « Darius III fled east but was assassinated by Persian nobles, who hoped to retain their own independence (this didn't work - Alexander the Great thoroughly hunted down the assassins over the next few years). »
• « The elite families of the nobles, through their networks of clients, made all the important decisions. Beneath this group were the equites: families who did not have the ancient lineages of the patricians and who did not normally hold public office. »
• « Meanwhile, the average plebeian had long since lost his representation. The Roman Plebeian Assembly was controlled by wealthy commoners who were clients of the nobles. »
• « In the Eastern Roman Empire, while the nobles were certainly rich and powerful, they were nowhere near as powerful as their Western counterparts. »
• « A complex and formal ranking system of nobles and courtiers, dressed in garments dyed in specific colours to denote their respective ranks, separated the person of the emperor from supplicants and ambassadors. »
• « In turn, the problem for royal authority was that many kings had "vassals" who had more land, wealth and power than they did; it was quite possible, even easy, for powerful nobles to wage war against their king if they wished. »