(n.) The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the emperor's death, they are named after an era chosen for them; thus Hirohito is known exclusively in Japan as Showa Emperor.
(2) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(3) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
(4) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(5) As the key leave campaigner Boris Johnson said in his biography of Winston Churchill two years ago, the European Union, together with Nato, “has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors”.
(6) Emperor of Milton Keynes Facebook Twitter Pinterest A purple emperor was spotted in Milton Keynes last year.
(7) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
(8) The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
(10) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
(11) Heart rate during overnight rest and while diving were recorded from five emperor penguins with a microprocessor-controlled submersible recorder.
(12) Gombrich calls Shih Huang-Ti, the emperor who incinerated all books apart from agricultural manuals, 'an enemy of history'.
(13) In both sexes and species, plasma LH and gonadal steroids were severalfold above basal level at the time of arrival on the breeding grounds, suggesting that environmental cues (especially decreasing daylength in emperors) rather than mating and courting primarily stimulate gonadal development and reproduction.
(14) Originally a striker who once fed off his brother's long balls to score goals galore in a local team in Petrópolis (a mountain town near Rio and historically important for hosting the Brazilian emperor's summer palace), at Fluminense he struggled to find a place until the first‑choice left-back was dropped because of forged documentation.
(15) Having finished a cure there, Archduchess Sophie, who had been childless, gave birth to a son, who subsequently became Emperor Franz Joseph.
(16) Tiananmen - the Gate of Heavenly Peace - marks the southern boundary of the Forbidden City, the seat of China's emperors for centuries.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Supreme Leader Snoke finally has his answer Andy Serkis’s First Order bad guy No 1 was the first voice we heard in the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens a year ago, asking: “There has been an awakening ... have you felt it?” Twelve months on we discover he’s addressing hooded Vader fanboy Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) who responds simply: “Yes.” This dynamic pitches the pair as the Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader of the new movie, and yet continues to raise further questions.
(18) Emperor's approval was received 26th june 1862 and in july Purkynĕ was elected the first president.
(19) The structure will dwarf nearby buildings, including the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, an officially recognised cultural asset built in 1926 to honour the emperor and empress dowager Shoken.
(20) Yamamoto denied any intention to use the emperor for political purposes – a possible infringement of the postwar constitution, which relegates the emperor to a non-political, ceremonial role.
Kaiser
Definition:
(n.) The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, rates were generally higher than those of Kaiser-Permanente (northern California) enrollees, despite the high use of hospital care by beneficiaries outside of the Military System.
(2) Kaiser's special formula for coefficient alpha for a principal component and the Kaiser-Guttman Rule for the "number of components" are mentioned.
(3) We used the population-based tumor registry of Kaiser Permanente in the United States (Portland, OR) to analyze breast cancer incidence from 1960 to 1985.
(4) In the kaiser's Europe, defeated France would be the more likely seedbed for fascism, not Germany.
(5) This is because under both plans, members who have a specific plan physician as regular source of care use more services than those without one, and because only 42 per cent of Kaiser members compared with 87 per cent of Clinic members stated that they had a specific plan physician.
(6) In the 1920's, Vogt created a multi-disciplinary brain research institute, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung in Berlin-Buch.
(7) Similar results are obtained when the grouping of metal ions is based on criteria suggested by Kaiser.
(8) The new queen would have died less than seven months later, handing the throne to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
(9) Furthering their research into the differentiation of various haemoglobins (both human and animal) with the use of thin layer chromatographic methods, the Authors have applied Kaiser's high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) to the specific diagnosis of blood.
(10) The dead on the British side consisted no doubt of those hoping to stop the Kaiser crushing what they saw as liberty in Britain and of those wanting to give Britain the unlimited possibility of enriching itself, even if it meant crushing the aspirations of people in the "colonial world".
(11) These are tested using data on 3,892 individuals enrolled in the Kaiser Foundation Prepaid Health Plan of Portland, Oregon.
(12) The castle was home to Germany's last kaiser, Wilhelm II.
(13) Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region is a prepaid group practice health maintenance organization.
(14) rectangular, triangular, Hann, Hamming, Blackman and Kaiser.
(15) We examined the incidence of treated end-stage renal disease (ESRD) among the two million members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California from 1973 through 1985.
(16) Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson, who began judging on the Voice at the same time as Minogue, says she instantly set him at ease: "I was having panics about doing the show every morning," he says, "but on the first week I found myself sitting cross-legged on her dressing room floor while she gave me advice.
(17) Similarly, as distance from the Clinic increased and distance from a Kaiser facility decreased, the preference for the Kaiser plan increased.
(18) Progression from normotension between 1964 and 1972 to essential hypertension by age 55 years was documented in 1,031 adult members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (Northern California region) from computerized multiphasic health checkup records and medical record review.
(19) 1) Matip can be Liverpool’s defensive marshall The curious case of Carlos Kaiser – Football Weekly Extra Read more If he can keep his head while all about him are losing theirs, then Joël Matip could be the ideal man to bring order to Liverpool’s defence at last.
(20) An analogue of melittin synthesized in the group of E. T. Kaiser (DeGrado, W. F., F. J. Keźdy, and E. T. Kaiser.