Sentences with phrase «nobility after»

Despite its value, the breed faced near - extinction in the mid to late 18th century with the collapse of the Scottish nobility after the battle of Culloden and the Jacobite rebellion but was saved by enthusiasts Archibald and Duncan McNeill.

Chocolate soon became a fashionable drink about the same time as coffee of the European nobility after the discovery of the Americas.

Not exact matches

Here is the basis of Augustine's view that virginity is the highest human state, celibacy next, and that there is a scale of nobility in relation to continence after bereavement, with renunciation always receiving the highest honour.17

He has brought in potentially great players, brought up wonderful youth players, developed the infrastructure to achieve great things, fought against the dinosaurs entrenched in the 19th century who are ¨ running ¨ the game, displayed dignity and nobility in the face of unremitting criticism from a small band of Arsenal ¨ supporters ¨ and the media, endured xenophobic pundits, questionable officiating, lean years after the stadium build, ever expanding competition for players from richer clubs and yet stayed true to his principles and still managed to bring in trophies and success over his 21 year reign.

Breastfeeding was typically shunned by those of the nobility, with babies being given to wet nurses for care after delivery.

Edmund Burke coined the term the fourth estate (after the initial three of the clergy, the nobility and the commons) to mean the press and the media.

The government that was set up after the Revolution went to considerable lengths to preserve those same rights, through the Constitutional system of «checks and balances», the Bill of Rights, prohibition against hereditary nobility, & c.

The Order of the Dragon (Latin: Societas Draconistarum, literally Society of the Dragonists) was a monarchical chivalric order for selected nobility Four months after the console's release, Nintendo has made the Switch app available on both iOS and Android.

But after «Greenberg,» Baumbach pivoted once more, finding a looseness and a joy, especially in his creative partnership with Greta Gerwig, that suggests a surprisingly upbeat acceptance of the consolations of growing older and the odd nobility of maybe not having everything figured out.

After the plague, to combat the wage inflation caused by there being 30 - 50 % fewer folks standing around, the nobility said, «Sure, I'll pay you twice what I used to pay you,» and then they turned around and devalued the coins they used.

In 1675, they were adopted as the Royal Dog of France by the Dauphin in the court of King Louis XIV, and subsequently became much sought after by nobility.

After Ferguson, I wanted to do a matching version of the protesters but, no matter how much I tried, I couldn't give them the nobility they required.

A resolute high Modernist, he was out of sympathy with many of the aesthetic waves that came after the great achievements of the New York School, notably Pop («a very great disaster»), Conceptual art («scrapbook art») and postmodernism («modernism with a sneer, a giggle, modernism without any animating faith in the nobility and pertinence of its cultural mandate»).

After all, he lived more than four centuries ago, and the homes he built were tailored for wealthy Italian nobility.