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13 sentences with 'throne'

Example sentences and phrases with the word throne and other words derived from it.


• « After the king died, the throne was left empty because he had no heirs. »
throne: After the king died, the throne was left empty because he had no heirs.
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• « The sunset light filtered through the castle window, illuminating the throne room with a golden glow. »
throne: The sunset light filtered through the castle window, illuminating the throne room with a golden glow.
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• « When she died, however, her stepson Thutmose III took the throne. »
• « Alexander the Great's conquests began almost immediately after he took the throne. »
• « Heraclius was originally a governor who returned from his post in Africa to take the throne from a rival named Phocas in the midst of a Persian invasion. »
• « Unfortunately, almost as soon as he took the throne a volcano in southern Italy, Mount Vesuvius, erupted, followed soon after by another great fire as well as an epidemic in Rome. »
• « Regardless of who was ultimately responsible for the assassination, Alexander of Macedon ascended the throne at the age of twenty after the death of his father, and remained loyal to his mother as long as she lived. »
• « Philip V's son Perseus ascended the Macedonian throne in 179 BC and, although he did not directly threaten Roman power, he succeeded in arousing the suspicions of the Roman elite simply by reasserting Macedonian sovereignty in the region. »
• « The importance of Vespasian's takeover was that it reinforced the idea that the real power in Rome was no longer that of the old ruling families, but of the armies; Vespasian had no legal claim to the throne, but was ratified by the Senate anyway. »
• « The emperor's greatest concern must have been to maintain the loyalty of the armies above all else, for they could and would openly fight to put their man on the throne in a moment of crisis, which happened numerous times in the centuries to come. »
• « Rome's internal political problems were in some ways of its own making: the Praetorian Guard auctioned off the throne, would-be emperors eagerly assassinated their rivals, and Roman elites largely retreated to their huge estates to profit from their serfs. »
• « Needless to say, the problem was compounded when the Roman Empire found itself divided between rival pretenders to the throne - for a few years towards the end of the crisis period the empire proper was divided into three rival "empires" under rival imperial pretenders. »
• « Many emperors remained on the throne for only a few months before they were assassinated. Not surprisingly, in this environment, most emperors were only concerned with taking the throne or staying alive once they had it, meaning that they tended to neglect everything important to the stability of the Empire. »

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