11 sentences with 'monarch'
Example sentences and phrases with the word monarch and other words derived from it.
• « Macedonia was a kingdom ruled by a single monarch, but that monarch had to deal constantly with both his conniving kinsmen and his disloyal nobles, all of whom frequently conspired to gain more power for themselves. »
• « Kings often did not speak a word of the local languages; for example, Cleopatra VII (the famous Cleopatra and last ruler of Egypt before its conquest by Rome) was the first Ptolemaic monarch to speak Egyptian. »
• « As demonstrated in the case of the French Wars of Religion, there were often numerous small states and territories that sometimes rivalled larger ones in power, and even nobles who were part of a given kingdom had the right to raise and maintain their own armies outside the direct control of the monarch. »
• « That changed from the early 17th century onwards, mainly in France. What emerged was a stronger, more centralised form of monarchy in which the monarch had far more power than even the most powerful of the nobles. »
• « While her reign was plagued by these issues, Elizabeth I was a clever monarch who was very adept at reconciling opposing factions and winning over members of parliament from their perspective. »
• « The Enlightenment was also against "tyranny", which meant the arbitrary rule of a monarch indifferent to the welfare of his subjects. »
• « The perfect state was, in the eyes of most Enlightenment thinkers, one with an "enlightened" monarch at the head, presiding over a set of reasonable laws. »
• « Many Enlightenment thinkers thus looked to Britain, since 1689 ruled by a monarch who agreed with its written constitution and worked closely with an elected parliament, as the best existing model of enlightened government. »
• « Napoleon responded with an invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808 (initially allied with the Spanish monarchy, Napoleon summarily removed the king from his throne and installed his own brother Joseph as the new monarch), which in turn triggered an insurrection in deeply conservative Spain. »
• « Rulers had long struggled, unsuccessfully, to impose their language as the everyday vernacular in the regions over which they ruled, but most people still spoke regional dialects that often had little in common with the language of their monarch. »
• « Therefore, after Napoleon's defeat, there had to be a reckoning. Only the most stubborn or the most noble monarch thought it possible to completely undo the Revolution and its effects, but there was a shared desire among the traditional elites to restore stability and order based on the political system that had worked in the past. »