(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.
Tsarina
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Tsaritsa
Example Sentences:
(1) Illustration: SCIAMMARELLA Angela Merkel's desk is dominated by a portrait of Catherine II, the great German tsarina who began a written correspondence with Voltaire.
(2) There was a mixed response to both choices - unlike the near universal acclaim from greens this week for Obama's announcement of the Nobel laureate, Steven Chu , as energy secretary, and the Al Gore supporter, Carol Browner, as the new White House climate "tsarina".
(3) In a sense, these ghost cities resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive illusion for the passing tsarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.
(4) The First Physician at the court of the Tsarina Elisabeth, Herman Kaau Boerhaave, acting in his capacity as director of the Medical Chancelry at Petersburg (the Russian medical supervising board), had Hillmer expelled from the Russian empire.
(5) On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama set his administration a tough environmental agenda that includes: • ensuring that 10% of US electricity supply comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25% by 2025 • introducing a cap-and-trade programme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050 • the creation of 5m new jobs by investing $150bn in green technology companies over the next 10 years • target to save more oil than US imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years • have 1m plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015 To achieve these ambitious targets, the 44th president of the United States has enlisted the following scientists, politicians and advisers: Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change The new post of "climate tsarina" in the Obama administration went to the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator.
(6) His choice of the physicist Steve Chu as his energy secretary and the veteran regulator Carol Browner for the newly created White House post of "climate tsarina" received almost unanimously positive response from environmentalists.
(7) The Tsarina suppressed the book, which contained case reports on 125 of Hillmer's patients.
(8) Few have ever accused Eric Pickles or the government's "troubled families" tsarina, Louise Casey, of being slow to point the finger.
(9) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is currently the economics tsarina in Nigeria.