(n.) The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of it may prove to be true but the passage of time will show much is untrue.” In response to claims of infighting and comparison’s with Wolf Hall, a spokesman for the prince added: “Clarence House employs over 100 hardworking professionals, many of whom have been there for decades and whose work and dedication is appreciated by their royal highnesses.” The row over the book comes amid growing scrutiny of Prince Charles’s ambitions for his kingship.
(2) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(3) Charles has not spoken publicly about how he might approach kingship, and even privately, aides always imply it is a highly delicate issue because it involves talking about a matter of deepest family sadness – the death of his mother.
(4) Charles is allowed no such expression of anger, righteous or oblivious; any fantasies of kingship probably produce guilt in him, even if he was neglected by his mother and left to the bought, unequal love of servants.
(5) – is a prince deemed to be "preparing for kingship"?
(6) The government and the palace argue correspondence and meetings with ministers are a necessary part of his preparation for kingship and in 2012, the then attorney general Dominic Grieve said they had to be kept confidential to protect Charles’s position of political neutrality .
(7) "Without such confidentiality, both the Prince of Wales and ministers would feel seriously inhibited from exchanging views candidly and frankly, and this would damage the Prince of Wales's preparation for kingship," Grieve had said.
(8) The evidence, they said, "shows Prince Charles using his access to government ministers, and no doubt considering himself entitled to use that access, in order to set up and drive forward charities and promote views, but not as part of his preparation for kingship".
(9) Nevertheless new kinds of kingship and governance laid the foundations for the explosive growth of empires that derived their wealth from systematic conquest and forcible appropriation of resources.
(10) As preparations for his kingship gather pace, it has become clear that the 66-year-old heir wants to rule in a far more outspoken way than the taciturn Queen.
(11) The doctrine is that all letters from the prince are part of something called "preparation for kingship".
(12) Though initially Protestant, the Stuart monarchs dallied not only with Roman Catholicism but with the idea, much touted by James I, that kingship was divinely ordained and therefore overrode the rights of parliament.
(13) The unofficial biography, Charles: The Heart of a King, by Time magazine journalist Catherine Mayer, suggests his activism on issues such as the environment would give rise to a “potential new model of kingship”.
(14) In the pictures painted of Charles II in the 10 years that followed the restoration there resides an essence of kingship, a kind of beau idéal of monarchy, never quite matched before or since.
(15) The former attorney general, Dominic Grieve, blocked the release of the memos in 2012, saying that to publish them could “seriously damage” Charles’s kingship.
(16) In signs of an emerging strategy that could risk carrying over the controversy about his alleged meddling in politics into his kingship, sources close to the heir say he is set to continue to express concerns and ask questions about issues that matter to him, such as the future of farming and the environment, partly because he believes he has a duty to relay public opinion to those in power.
(17) The evidence, they said, showed "Prince Charles using his access to government ministers, and no doubt considering himself entitled to use that access, in order to set up and drive forward charities and promote views, but not as part of his preparation for kingship … Ministers responded, and no doubt felt themselves obliged to respond, but again not as part of Prince Charles's preparation for kingship."
(18) A former high-ranking government official, who is experienced in handling the prince’s interaction with ministers, described the risk to Charles’s kingship posed by publication as “quite large”.
(19) Mr. Baldwin said the King felt he could not carry the "almost intolerable burdens of kingship without a woman at his side."
(20) "Ministers responded, and no doubt felt themselves obliged to respond, but again not as part of Prince Charles's preparation for kingship."
Revelation
Definition:
(n.) The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
(n.) That which is revealed.
(n.) The act of revealing divine truth.
(n.) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
(n.) Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
(2) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(4) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
(5) Hopefully the revelations here help those inside and outside the party to clear the air and decide their own next move.
(6) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(7) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
(8) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(9) Nike's latest CSR report is a revelation for the amount of information they give."
(10) Sir Martin Sorrell , the chief executive of WPP, has said businesses continue to underestimate the importance the Edward Snowden's NSA electronic surveillance revelations have had on consumer attitudes to privacy and security.
(11) The revelation of the increase comes after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a host of senior doctors warned Theresa May in a letter that hospitals are “paralysed by spiralling demand” and the NHS “will fail” without an emergency cash injection.
(12) Snowden’s revelations have again framed the debate over the balance between our privacy rights and our need for security.
(13) Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said on Twitter that he will write to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding that he block News Corp's bid to take full control of pay-TV company BSkyB following the revelations about Dowler.
(14) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
(15) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
(16) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(17) Policy change after Snowden leaks EFF also found that the Snowden revelations about government surveillance of data have prompted technology companies to increase their protection of user data.
(18) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
(19) A spokeswoman for the Guardian said the revelation of the US-UK correspondence on the destruction was disappointing.
(20) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."