12 sentences with 'royal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word royal and other words derived from it.
• « Between the three of them they foil Cardinal Richelieu's attempt to ridicule the royal family. »
• « Sargon himself was born an illegitimate son and was, at one point, a royal gardener who worked his way into the palace, eventually seizing power in a coup d'état. »
• « This in turn created a huge surplus of wealth for the royal government, which had the right to tax and redistribute it (as did the states of Mesopotamia to the east). »
• « Also, a note on nomenclature: the term 'pharaoh' means 'great house', the term used for the royal palace and its vast supporting bureaucracy. It came to be used to refer to the king himself from the New Kingdom period onwards; it would be like the American president being called "the White House" in everyday language. »
• « The date used for the foundation of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, 2680 BC, is when the third royal dynasty was established and ruled all of Egypt. »
• « Cyrus II was the living representative of a supreme royal line of descent and an ensis in the Mesopotamian sense: the agent of the patron god on earth. »
• « For example, it was Cyrus who allowed the exiled Jews to return to Judah from Babylon in the name of a kind of royal generosity. »
• « Despite this system of political "checks and balances", the satraps (rulers) appointed the new king from the royal family when the previous one died; sometimes they preferred to appoint weak-willed members of the royal family so that the satraps could enjoy more personal freedom. »
• « This did nothing to improve the situation in Macedonia itself, which remained divided between the royal family and the nobility. »
• « At the same time, the Greeks were always a small minority in the lands of the east, a fact that Alexander the Great had certainly recognised. To cope with the situation, he not only encouraged intermarriage, but simply took over the Persian system of government, with its royal road, its regional governors and its huge and elaborate bureaucracy. »
• « Written during the rule of Ptolemy, the Rosetta Stone consists of a single royal proclamation in two hieroglyphic alphabets as well as in ancient Greek. »
• « And, of course, the religious power structure received the approval and support of the royal state in the process, until the only campaigns of religious persecution against non-Zoroastrians in Persian history. »