8 sentences with 'realm'
Example sentences and phrases with the word realm and other words derived from it.
• « 7. Anointing of the sick - a final ritual performed at the moment of death to send the soul to purgatory, the spiritual realm between earth and heaven where the sins of the soul will be burned away during years of atonement and purification. »
• « The Church of England was the nominal church of the whole realm, and only Anglicans could hold public office as judges or members of the British parliament, a legislative body dominated by the landed gentry. »
• « What united such disparate examples of absolutism as France and Prussia was a shared concept of royal authority. The theory of absolutism was that the king was above the nobles and answerable to no one in his realm, but owed his subjects a kind of benevolent protection and supervision. »
• « Arbitrary" power was not the point: the power exercised by the monarch was supposed to be for the good of the realm - this was known as raison d'état, right or raison d'état. »
• « One of the major impacts that the Enlightenment thought it unquestionably had on European (and, we should note, early American) politics was in the realm of justice. »
• « In Britain, the latter were called the gentry and controlled the House of Commons in parliament; the House of Lords was occupied by the "peers of the realm", the elite noble families often descended from the ancient Normans. »
• « Walking backwards - far from the realm of assumptions - it is determined that intelligent man (not a pre-hominid animalistic animal) has been on the planet for hundreds of thousands of years, and in that past there was technical knowledge that left behind some elementary smelting furnace or rudimentary medicine: he possessed advanced resources, similar and superior to those of today. »