monarchy

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Recent Examples of monarchy That Has Fashion media has already moved beyond the top-down model of editorial monarchy. Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 Months later, his family was forced into exile following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and the monarchy was replaced by an Islamic theocratic regime that has ruled Iran ever since. Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025 Still, the monarchy's finances remain a subject of scrutiny and debate in Britain. Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 In the 1970s, Iran thrived as a modernizing, pro-Western monarchy with the capital, Tehran, a cosmopolitan hub. Sharyl Attkisson, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for monarchy
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Noun
  • But a slave mentality remains deeply ingrained in Russian minds, along with a latent monarchism and paternalism.
    Nikita Petrov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But for anyone outside the British elite, the constitutional monarchism that emerged after the civil wars did not look much like democracy or true liberty.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Aside from the most ardent Bolsonaro loyalists, Brazilians—regardless of ideology—don't take kindly to foreign leaders telling them how to run their democracy.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • Yoon’s shocking December declaration plunged South Korea into a constitutional crisis and was widely condemned as striking at the heart of the nation’s democracy.
    Yoonjung Seo, CNN Money, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The ignorant need cultural immersion at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, which tells the story of those who fled the Cuban island that went from a free, prosperous republic to an oppressive, impoverished dictatorship within a single generation.
    Luka Ladan, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
  • France has meandered through five republics and two empires.
    The Editors, National Review, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • During the dictatorship, blackouts were used to control people.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • But if Trump’s Iran gamble turns out well and Iran’s theocratic dictatorship either crumbles or gives up its uranium enrichment program through diplomatic negotiations — a big if — Trump will be credited with having done something four previous presidents contemplated but ultimately failed to do.
    Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • For starters, power in the United States is vested in the people, not in the government, and certainly not in a sovereign.
    Richard Lorenc, Twin Cities, 3 July 2025
  • The Ceremony of the Keys is a staple on the sovereign's schedule during Royal Week, as is an investiture ceremony at the Palace of the Holyroodhouse and a palace garden party.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The Fantastic Four are invited to visit the isolated African kingdom of Wakanda by T’Challa, the nation’s young prince.
    Ekow Eshun July 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • Though the kingdom’s low debt levels are the envy of most other countries, its finances are being stretched by the scale of its ambition.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Glenn Youngkin, the Governor of Virginia, expressed his hope that the Trump administration would keep NSF in the commonwealth, but at a different location.
    Joanna Thompson, Space.com, 26 June 2025
  • With chaos in Washington threatening to make life more expensive for families in the Roanoke area and throughout our commonwealth, Virginians deserve leaders who will put partisan politics aside and work together to offer families real relief.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The vast majority of nations targeted by the tariffs had yet to strike a trade agreement with the U.S., meaning the deadline could have brought back the slate of tariffs that had triggered the April stock selloff.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 July 2025
  • All told, these changes could reduce the prices patients pay by 60% to 80%, bringing us on par with other nations without the limited access that patients in other countries experience.
    Joel White, Boston Herald, 7 July 2025

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