Sentences with phrase «monarchs who»

The Prado's strengths in these areas are due to the tastes of the Spanish monarchs who, from the 15th century onward, avidly collected art and served as patrons to contemporary artists such as Murillo, Rubens, Tiepolo, Titian and Velázquez.

The book intertwines stories of France's post-war recovery with profiles of the monarchs who resided at Fontainebleau throughout the centuries and left their architectural stamp on the palace and its sizeable grounds.

Most have heard of Isabella and Ferdinand, the monarchs who commissioned Columbus» famous voyage, but what is less widely known is that Isabella ran the kingdom while Ferdinand merely signed the papers.

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.

So far, it appears that many monarchs who start their journey in Canada or the Northern U.S. head down to Mexico.

Meanwhile, the monarchs who early commended the leadership and members of the State Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC for their prompt security intervention in the state, said their productive and proactive contributions towards the actualization of a secured state had yielded meaningful results in years past.

He was one of the autocratic monarchs who were emerging in Europe.

Your god, of course, is modeled on paranoid monarchs who knew they weren't supreme anythings, but needed the public to think they were lest the public rise up against them.

After the rise of Protestantism, some of the monarchs who were most loyal to the Roman Catholic form of the faith, notably the fanatically Roman Catholic Philip II of Spain, were among the most emphatic in their insistence on the royal control of the Church within their realms.

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.

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).

Solution: Either Jesus returns and straightens up, or God gives us a new powerful pious monarch who destroys the current evil power elite, and supports again the Christian Church.

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

«So to have a monarch who talks openly about Jesus in a very relaxed and natural way, we find that a huge encouragement and hope that Christians across the country will take a leaf out of The Queen's book and learn to talk about Jesus in a natural way with friends, relatives and colleagues, so people can discover more about what it means to be a follower of Jesus.»

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

Among the movies condemned early on was Queen Christina, the story of the Swedish monarch who abdicated in 1654.

Aquinas echoed a widespread conviction when he declared that a ruler exercises his power as a divine trust and that a monarch who has betrayed that trust has lost his right to the obedience of his subjects.

The oriental ideal of the absolute monarch who «could do no wrong» invaded Israel's court in the days of David, if, indeed, it was not already manifest under Saul; it became supreme through Solomon's reign; it was the impelling principle in Rehoboam's folly at Shechem (I Kings 12: 14).

Speaking after his conferment, the monarch who thanked President Buhari for finding him worthy of such appointment charged the students to shun cultism and other vices.

The monarch who attributed the myriads of challenges facing Nigerian people to what he described as palpable corruption which has eaten deep into the fabric of the nationhood, saying if corruption is totally eradicated, Nigeria will be the best place to be in the world.

Comrade Olafare in the statement also confirmed the arrival of ex Super Eagles players like Peter Rufai, Ike Sorounmu, Garba Lawal, Mutiu Adepoju, Taribo West, Ifeanyi Udese, Waheed Akanni, Gbenga Okunnowo, Oladimeji Lawal and others at Ile - Ife received on behalf of the Arole Oodua by the national team's former coach who is a prominent indigene of Ifeland and Balogun of Modakeke, Highchief Festus Onigbinde for the novelty match to be played 3 pm on Saturday at the sport complex of Obafemi Awolowo University organized by House of Oduduwa Foundation in honour of the African foremost monarch who is the Spiritual leader of the Yoruba race worldwide.

The Magistrate 11, Olusola Aluko, had issued bench warrant against the monarch who was standing trial before him.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars in this original, history - based drama series as the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

That's partly in character, as T'Challa is a king who thinks of and serves his people, the kind of monarch who puts the kingdom first.

Scott also plays Edgar in Richard Eyre's modern - day adaptation of King Lear, with Anthony Hopkins as the elderly monarch who divides his kingdom for his three daughters — played here by Emma Thompson, Emma Watson and Florence Pugh.

Bias may be a problem in my review of this film, as I find it hard to be objective when the object of our affection is a pampered, privileged monarch who's only concern is a speech impediment that prevents him from publicly addressing his royal subjects.

It is revealed that you are the chosen undead (shocker) and must replace the current monarch who has gone hollow.

Both pieces inherit from the ignominious monarch who they place respectively in the aftermath of the South African Apartheid and at the time of the Spanish Civil War.

Rainha Nzinga of Matamba, the seventeenth - century Mbundu monarch who fought Portuguese armies in Angola, is the main protagonist in «When shall we 3?

A monarch who has never bought a work by a living artist has deigned to inflict on Paula Rego the patently ridiculous title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Nurse's position is that of an absolute monarch who thinks it might be good idea to talk to his subjects.

Not exact matches

Who's the national leader in a country like England, which has both a monarch and a prime minister?

The King's Speech tells the true story of King George VI of Britain, his sudden ascension to the throne and the eccentric speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch cope with a debilitating stutter and become competent in his position.

A king, queen, or other noble person who serves as chief of state; a ruler or monarch.

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

Beyond this, Lutherans must avoid the mistake of the Reformation leaders who failed to cry out against the sins of monarchs.

Presumably the persons who sat at the right and left hand of an oriental monarch shared in his power.

Much of the time our tradition has talked of a divine monarch or ruler who is absolutely in control of the world and is thus to be held responsible for whatever happens in it.

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.

Most of us are far healthier, far more comfortable and have far more opportunities and diversions available to us than 99 percent of all the monarchs, emperors, maharajas and other potentates who've ever lived.

We are the people who are known for their loyalty to the historical person who was given the title of «anointed monarch» by his followers — Jesus, the Jew of Nazareth.

The seemingly innocent story of Abishag, who was to warm the aged David (I Kings 1:1 - 4), is suspiciously reminiscent of widespread practices in which the ebbing virility of the old monarch was put to the test, since in his person he embodied the vital forces of the nation.

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Sometimes the service suggests a God who is like an oriental monarch demanding that his subjects cringe in fear before him; more often, at least in many American churches, it suggests a God who is foolishly sentimental and entirely undemanding in his loving self - disclosure to men.

In 1685 Louis XIV, intent on being absolute monarch and determined to be rid of a religious minority who constituted an enclave not yet fully integrated under his rule, revoked the Edict of Nantes.

One element of the policy of the Ottoman Sultans was their championship of Sunnism, which brought them into conflict with the monarchs of Persia who had adopted the creed of Imami Shi`ism as the religion of their government.

The Monarchs have plenty of size, lots of people who can run the point, shooters everywhere and solid defenders.

«I can't tell you all my tricks,» says Sacramento Monarchs All - Star center Yolanda Griffith, who once worked as a repo woman in West Palm Beach, Fla., to support her daughter, Candace.

It was then that the entire Monarchs team congratulated Candace (who's now 16) with a taped message played on the Arco Arena scoreboard.

Papa was named to manage the Kansas City Monarchs» B team in 1948, the agreement being that he would get one third of the sale price for any player who was developed by him and sold to the majors.