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We follow the king-emperor as he takes on the French in Italy, the Protestant princes in Germany and the Turks in Algiers.
His Wealth of Nations Brendan Simms 2011
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Winston on Gandhi "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor."
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The twelfth-century Sunni missionary Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi wrote, The order of the world is impossible without the existence of a king-emperor.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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The twelfth-century Sunni missionary Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi wrote, The order of the world is impossible without the existence of a king-emperor.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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“It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor.”
Firedoglake » “The Cut-And-Run 2006 Campaign” — Game On? 2006
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After he sent a secret delegation to the Second Hague Peace Conference (1907), Kojong was forced to abdicate by Japan (July 19) in favor of his son, Sunjong (18741926, r. 190710), last king-emperor of the Yi dynasty and a mere figurehead.
1902, Jan. 30 2001
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Hungary, their ascendancy was based on a narrow and artificial franchise, and it was open to the king-emperor to hold _in terrorem_ over them an appeal to the disfranchised majority.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Without consulting the co-signatory powers of the treaty of Berlin, and in deliberate violation of its provisions, the king-emperor issued, on the 13th of October, a decree annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Coalition cabinet itself opinion was sharply divided, but in the end the views of the Independence party prevailed, and Dr Wekerle laid the proposal for a separate Hungarian Bank before the king-emperor and the Austrian government.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The burning question of the "Magyar word of command" remained unsettled, save in so far as the fixed determination of the king-emperor had settled it; the equally important question of the renewal of the charter of the Austro-Hungarian State Bank had also formed no part of the agreement of 1907.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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