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It was a lightning revolt with a whiff of the Arab Spring about it, in that the anger was directed at the power of an elderly dynast and his closest associates.

Over more than three decades, no one dared question the perversion of politics by and for Rupert Murdoch | Henry Porter 2011

The 1848 political season was just beginning, and already it was reaching a white-hot intensity—kindled in part by that dynamic dynast of American politics, Henry Clay, whose magnified presence shone over the nation like a late afternoon sun over the sea.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

The 1848 political season was just beginning, and already it was reaching a white-hot intensity—kindled in part by that dynamic dynast of American politics, Henry Clay, whose magnified presence shone over the nation like a late afternoon sun over the sea.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

Kevin, I don't want to be too belligerent about this, because I understand the benefits of experience, but, honestly, it was only a lack of time that kept me from posting a prediction that city's change-advocating daily and its equally reform-minded alternative weekly would both endorse the political dynast.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

Determined to prove to his public that he really was “first among equals,” a man of the people, a regular Joe just like them, Augustus declined the opportunity to move to a rich palace in the style of an Eastern dynast like Cleopatra.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Unlike her Egyptian opposite number, Cleopatra, to whom she was forced to play second fiddle both over the next decade and in historical memory, Livia Drusilla was not bred into the role of imperial dynast, but nor was she an outsider to the Roman political establishment.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Wherever possible the date of production, location of the mint, and the dynast who issued the currency will be provided.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

What an insignificant topic ... what someone's VP pick said about someone's non-VP pick ... what an upstart said about a dynast ...

Flashback: Palin Said She Didn't Like Hillary's "Whining" 2009

The nationality of a dynast does not affect his right

Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

The nationality of a dynast does not affect his right

Salic Law and the line of Succession to Louis XX de Brantigny........................ 2008