Sentences with phrase «by monarch»

Age pensions hadn't been introduced, so the provision against pensioners was meant to exclude personal pensions, granted by the monarch direclty

The Peace Garden is part of the nectar corridor, containing the milkweed needed by monarch butterflies and caterpillars.

The quest is complicated by the desertion of their maverick brother Edmond (Jonathan R. Scott) who is beguiled with promises of princely power (and all the «Turkish Delight» he can eat) by the monarch - stealing sorceress.

Hammer of the Gods (R for nudity, profanity, sexual references and graphic violence) Norse fantasy revolving around a muscle - bound Viking warrior (Charlie Bewley) who embarks on an epic journey in search of the long - lost brother (Clive Standen) banished from the kingdom years earlier by their monarch father (James Cosmo).

The estimated 4,400 miles or more traveled by members of this tiny species smashes the previous record for insect migration of 2,500 miles, held by monarch butterflies.

Last year, a hard year by monarch butterfly migration standards, 60 million monarchs showed up at their misty wintering grounds in Mexico.

No reason was given for his removal, in a statement issued by the monarch's Media Aide, Mr. Adeola Oloko, while announcing the removal and installation of another Baale on Tuesday.

Others alerted by the monarch are the Area Commander, Area A Lion Building and all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) covering Lagos Island.

The Obi of Onitsha, Dr. Alfred Achebe, the Igwe of Onitsha has expressed unhappiness with Senator Chris Ngige, following the insistence of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to hold their flag - off campaign on Tuesday in Onitsha, despite the traditional Ofala festival being celebrated by the monarch.

The British political system is a «constitutional monarchy»: the supreme power held by the monarch is largely ceremonial and formal, with actual political power exercised by others.

Blair's second Queen's speech was dominated by the question of Lords reform, mention of which by the monarch resulted in «an unprecedented ripple of disapproval from peers, calls of «Shame» mingling with «Hear, hears» from assembled MPs», as Michael White reported.

Many Democratic States are not designed or created by «the People», they are often created by a monarch or a colonial power or a military regime.

An «election» could, however, include a situation like that surrounding the adoption of the Magna Carta or the assembly of representatives of the various estates that was convened by the monarch shortly before the French Revolution in which the franchise is quite limited (e.g. limited only to aristocrats, or to elders, or to clergy, or to members of a political party, or to members of a particular tribe or caste, or to a council of leaders of tribes or castes) who are not all members of the incumbent's extended family and whose appointment was not primarily within the control of the incumbent as a practical matter.

A contested election could also count even if it limits the franchise to just part of the territory ruled by the monarch.

Parliaments could be dissolved early by the monarch at the Prime Minister's request.

The most important prerogative still personally exercised by the monarch is the choice of whom to appoint Prime Minister.

Labour supporters should wave their patriotic flags but our pride does not come from being ruled by a monarch

The precedent is discouraging: after three unhappy weeks spent squabbling about taxation, parliament was dissolved by the monarch.

Fragments of Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose, Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree and the stone of destiny are among the priceless artefacts incorporated into the bodywork of the carriage being used by the monarch for the first time.

Honours are bestowed by the monarch - the «fountain of honour» - usually at the recommendation of the prime minister.

It was a rare intervention by the monarch, whose role is mostly ceremonial.

Once appointed by the monarch (in the ceremony known anachronistically as the «kissing of the hands»), the Prime Minister has absolute discretion over who will be invited to become Ministers, what direction the Government and country will take and how the departments of government will be structured.

In other words, they'd have had to be invited to the palace and asked to form a government by the monarch.

The leader of the largest party in the House of Commons is by convention asked by the monarch to be Prime Minister and to form a government.

There are probably no unofficial plans either, because an attempt by the monarch to overrule Parliament would be part of an unprecedented crisis.

Each colony was governed separately and had its own charter issued by the monarch of Great Britain at the time of founding.

Once the fashions were set by a monarch the king could do no wrong.

Prominent Muslims had taken part in the establishment of the Ming dynasty, and later, in the reign of Yung Lo from 808 to 836 (A.D. 1405 - 32), the eminent Muslim statesman Cheng Ho was sent by the monarch to establish friendly relations with the countries of the South Pacific and with India, Arabia, and East Africa.

LDS is the area of weird hierarchy ruled by their monarchs.

In France, Spain, Portugal, and the Hapsburg lands appointments to the episcopate and other ecclesiastical dignities were made by the monarchs, and no Papal decree could be recognized except with the consent of the State.

As a result the match was dominated by the Monarchs, and they spent large swathes of the 90 minutes seemingly toying with the overmatched S2 side.

After many pleas and prayers, Magistrate Aluko returned the case file to the Chief Magistrate, as against the plea by monarchs in Iwo axis to strike out the suit.

The communiqué was signed by the monarchs of the nine states of the Niger Delta region and the TROMPCON National Administrative Secretary.

Dissipating any romantic notions about being a royal, the script depicts the heartache and loneliness suffered by monarchs who were often pawns in their court's governmental schemes.

It was a familiar rallying cry, but one that overlooked the many masterpieces funded by monarchs and Medicis.

As a result, the number of acres covered by monarchs and counts of monarch - filled trees are thought to provide reliable estimates of colony size.

Not exact matches

As the tweet suggests, the mistake is a common one and pops up almost every time news outlets report on a celebrity owning such and such a word or phrase (the Queen Anne in the tweet, by the way, refers to the British monarch who presided over the UK's first copyright law).

He was praised by the likes of Plato as an «enlightened monarch.»

The «Royal Bed,» as Savoir Beds is calling it, is inspired by 17th - and 18th - century British beds, when royal bedrooms were the center of palace life and beds were meant to impress anyone lucky enough to get an audience with the monarch in his chambers.

This should be straightened up by a pious monarch who is more concerned for the ordinary people than for the rich power elite.

Coronations of monarchs were important religious ceremonies because their religious legitimation of particular political rulers expressed Christendom's fundamental claim that the empire's (or nation's) authority and unity was ordained by God.

God is not an absolute monarch who rules by divine right.

There were usually two religious departments under the pre-Mughal rulers, each of them headed by an officer of the highest rank whose authority came directly from the monarch.

As the espousal of Christianity by Constantine and his successors had speeded up the conversion of the Roman Empire, so the adoption of Christianity was hastened or made possible by the favor of many another monarch.

As we saw earlier, the contrast was enhanced by the glitter and display and magnificent building programs of some of the monarchs who exacted hard labor and heavy taxes from the people.

Mary and Joseph were being hunted by the most powerful monarch in the region, and he knew their family identity.

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

In the intervening years six crusades had occurred and ultimately failed, and for some of that time the Holy Land had been ruled by Catholic monarchs.

The God of the biblical narrative is not an unmoved mover, majestic monarch or all - determining controller of history who is untouched by the vagaries of time and change.

He slew Goliath but also served to remind republicans that even the godliest monarch could be corrupted by power.