Sentences with word «aristocracy»

The Athenian democracy was a kind of aristocracy of free citizens built on slavery.

The founding fathers were concerned enough about this to reject inherited titles and the other trappings of European aristocracy in favor of an egalitarian society, in which privilege was not heritable.

[8] He continued his education at Oxford and subsequently gained a doctorate with a thesis on the British aristocracy of the late 19th century at Christ Church, before being appointed to a Fellowship in History and Politics at Nuffield College.

The 2018 menu is inspired by the «Grand Tour», i.e. the long journey across the Old Continent undertaken in the seventeenth century by the European aristocracy in a quest to expand their knowledge.

American girls basically propped up the English aristocracy for a generation.

Director James Ivory's graceful direction and Pierre Lhomme's lush cinematography delicately capture repressed passion among early 20th - century English aristocracy in Maurice.

On the opposite page (Report, 12 May) you talk of «Labour's past failure to reform the Lords» in a report about some hypothetical plan of Clegg's, while Labour actually ended hundreds of years of rule by aristocracy.

Their latest report defined The New Aristocracy as «consumers aged 25 — 49, exhibiting a strong preference (78 %) for large homes with square footage over 5,000 square feet, generally grew up with wealth and anticipate inheriting on average $ 4M.»

The leaders in American culture are not like the tiny minority of landed aristocracy who were educated as gentlemen at Oxford or Cambridge so that they might enjoy their leisure and be ornaments of erudition.

The board and owners now run AFC like a French aristocracy with no heed to the paying public.

The reason, to make a long story short, is that the sociologists who developed the concept used the British landed aristocracy as their model.

The drive to break the power of landed aristocracies in Britain, France and other countries became the major political fight from the century spanning 1815 and World War I.

At the time, tapestry was a dying, slow, and costly art form associated with old aristocracy and religious practice.

So when it is executed on a sleek pair of strappy sandals, it speaks loudly about aristocracy.

Controlling who can emit carbon dioxide gives the government and the paper aristocracy an excuse and mechanism for controlling every activity on the planet.

The feudal aristocracies of the Middle Ages were one by one overturned by the forces of modern political, economic, and religious life.

True, Frank Wolf did not spring from the intellectual and political aristocracy of the American Founding; nor did he serve as ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and president; nor is he a crusty curmudgeon like the Adams portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins in the film Amistad.

Bathe like a countess in a bathroom fit for Russian aristocracy.

Feel like a member of the Indonesian aristocracy during a private photo shoot with full hair and makeup services.

Bred into aristocracy in Cuba, the Havanese has gone through many career changes over the years, from companion to royalty to working poultry farms.

Companion dogs of the early warlords and barons, Vizsla blood was preserved pure for centuries by the land - owning aristocracy who guarded them jealously and continued to develop the hunting ability of these «yellow - pointers».

It's arguable that it was oligarchy more than democracy that trampled on American aristocracy understood is a classy devotion to formalities or «knowing your place» (in the good sense).

The famous dumplings are mentioned for the first time in the fourteenth century by the Indo - Persian poet, Amir Khusrau, as one of the favourite foods of the Delhi Muslim aristocracy for their breathtaking banquets (the recipe at the time was with a filling of meat, chopped onions and clarified butter, ghee).

He offended the priestly aristocracy beyond pardon by actively interfering with the use of the Temple courts as a public market and exchange, which brought them in a handsome revenue.

What does Ellis mean when he says that the public figures on which he focuses in this book were «America's first and, in many respects, its only natural aristocracy» [p. 13]?

The Spanish aristocracy often sent second sons to the Island of Cuba to seek their fortunes in that rich and fertile soil.

This Wodehousian novel, which follows shiftless Bertie, a member of the Irish aristocracy in its waning days, is full of hilarity and heart — just like everyone's favorite Countess.

Ibrahim describes how Stromer, born into German aristocracy in 1871, became a prolific writer, researcher and explorer.

Says an article on Alcheme of Tea's website, «In 1662 princess Catherine of Braganza of Portugal married Charles II and introduced to English aristocracy drinking tea as a court beverage.

And I'm puzzled why Lord Balcairn's kamikaze final Mr. Chatterbox installment was altered from the book's vision of the English aristocracy throwing down its jewels in a born - again frenzy to a more humdrum orgy.

We embedded into the annual event and rubbed elbows with automotive aristocracy to get the scoop on this historic car gathering and found out.

The climate change aristocracy now sit and dictate what the terms, values, and principles of UK politics ought to be.

Although Paul going to Rome did infect the Roman aristocracy with Christianity.

If the social patricians of ancient Rome regarded work as below their status, it has to be said that a spiritual aristocracy appears to have developed within early Christianity with equally negative and dismissive attitudes towards manual labor.

Smaller government, and low taxes, just means that an obscenely wealthy aristocracy appears to fill the gap.

When aristocracy gives way to some other stable social form, aristocratic manners are replaced by a system of symbolic acts that express the character of the new society.

Eventually, however, these dogs came to be used primarily as companion pets, kept by the wealthy aristocracy.

Instead of subordinating artisans and entrepreneurs to the founding aristocracy, as the ancient city had done, the medieval city was ruled by a combination of grand bourgeoisie and small capitalists.

From Tocqueville's comparison - and - contrast between aristocracy and democracy — wherein democracy brought gains in justice, but losses in other estimable human qualities — Peter drew the lesson that «things are always getting better and worse.»

Gnosticism inevitably and deliberately issued in a situation in which there were an intellectual aristocracy and an ignorant and unteachable majority.

It is like he assumes he has arrived and he will have suitors queuing at his door from all the footballing aristocracy — Man U only «enquired» to wind the scousers up.