(n.) A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.
(n.) A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.
(n.) The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also, despite recent changes, an absolute monarchy where local elections are a novelty and women are still officially banned from driving.
(2) The once squeaky-clean Spanish royal family has become immersed in a growing fraud scandal that reveals how members of King Juan Carlos's family may have cashed in on the monarchy's good name.
(3) This ad hoc response to a moment of crisis was buttressed by successive laws that, in order to exclude a Stuart succession, enmeshed monarchy with the Church of England, thus fanning a religious hostility the rest of Europe was already growing beyond.
(4) Time to scrap all honours everywhere, including UK.” Australians had their chance to ditch the monarchy in 1999.
(5) Thailand’s monarchy is protected by some of the world’s strictest lese-majeste laws.
(6) In his bid to revitalise Spain's sagging monarchy, Felipe VI must be willing to show that he will handle things differently to his father, said Urreiztieta.
(7) Opposition demands – supported by youth groups, civil society organisations and Islamists – are for changes within the framework of the Hashemite monarchy.
(8) Rajab, no fan of monarchies, says Jordan and Morocco have done better than his own country in responding to popular demands for change.
(9) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
(10) Saudi Arabia, by contrast, has no popular vote and its leadership has long been a heriditary monarchy which controls nearly all aspects of the state.
(11) Discontent with the monarchy is no longer confined to avowedly republican parties or rightwingers, who have never forgiven the king for introducing democracy and transforming the state handed to him by dictator General Francisco Franco on his death in 1975, when Spain's historically fragile monarchy was restored for the second time in a century.
(12) Donald Trump tweets support for blockade imposed on Qatar Read more Trump started the day by taking sides in a bitter row among the Gulf monarchies, in which Saudi Arabia and its allies have sought to isolate Qatar .
(13) Sensitivity over criticism of the monarchy has increased in recent years as the poor health of the country's 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has raised concerns about a smooth succession.
(14) Salmond will also set out his belief that Scotland's independence will not threaten other parts of the UK but lead to a more mature relationship between equals, leading to a "social union" between Scotland and England, sharing a currency, monarchy and other institutions.
(15) Felipe sought on Thursday to disentangle the monarchy from controversy.
(16) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(17) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
(18) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
(19) But the top choice among big-ticket items is voting reform: fully 50% say this is the top priority, compared with just 19% for a new constitution, less than 6% for electing the Lords, and just 3% for abolishing the monarchy.
(20) We are involved in modernising the British monarchy.
Patriarchy
Definition:
(n.) The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.
(n.) Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
(2) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
(3) It is the first place researchers go to find out about social trends and family life through the centuries; the fact that women's lives have not been properly recorded there speaks volumes about the depth of our country's patriarchy, and how slow we have been and continue to be to shake it off.
(4) Being a good mother is not a scam perpetrated by the patriarchy on women at a vulnerable moment in their lives.
(5) The nations with the highest recorded levels include Colombia, Uganda, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, with the south Asian countries in particular producing unforgettable images of disfigured women who have been assaulted with acid because they have rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals, or aroused jealousy, or in some way or other inconvenienced the patriarchy and aroused its ire.
(6) A reflexive theory, proposed by Harding, is used to conceptualize the differing responses, feminist and nonfeminist, of women and nurses, as alternative reactions to the many types of patriarchy they have encountered.
(7) "One of the main goals," says Inna, "is to take the masks off people who wear them, to show who they are, and the level of fucking patriarchy in this world, you know?"
(8) Without Kim Jong-un in the forefront, North Korea’s government [remains] a highly conservative patriarchy run by old men for whom Moscow 1956 is the standard for dangerous liberalism.
(9) The patriarchy isn't going to smash itself, to paraphrase Habermas (sort of), but nor is it so entrenched that it cannot be overturned by sustained, informed argumentation.
(10) And there is no specific reason why these men do it other than their ego and the fact that it's patriarchy that is allowing them to do it.
(11) I'm a firm believer that one's politics is a journey, and that level of thorough feminist analysis probably comes a bit later on for someone who – by his own admission – is at the beginning of his patriarchy-smashing voyage.
(12) However, the programme focused on women and girls (mothers, stars, teens) and in so doing almost entirely overlooked the male-dominated industry and the impact on boys' attitudes and role in reinforcing patriarchy.
(13) This paradoxical process represents Muslim women as victims of patriarchy who need to be rescued, but also – simultaneously – symbols of radical Islam who deserve to be criminalised "for their own good".
(14) The bearded men who sit in parliament are the outward expression of the revival of a jealously guarded patriarchy where a man's family is not only his personal fiefdom, but also a sovereign, state-free space.
(15) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.
(16) Middle-aged women in patriarchial societies are still widely considered as deficient and damaged and therefore can easily become objects of medical attention.
(17) There is another good chance that, if you are committed to global women’s solidarity, the work you do is already more valuable to women than it is to the patriarchy, and, by withdrawing it, you are not even cutting off your nose to spite your face, you are cutting off your nose to spite someone else’s face.
(18) In Zimbabwe, patriarchy and colonialism appear to be the most significant social legacies responsible for the family structure and sexual behavior associated with HIV infection.
(19) Many reviewers have commented how perfect the trainers are for "kicking [Texas governor] Rick Perry's ass", or how the trainers were "guaranteed to outrun patriarchy".
(20) This photograph is what patriarchy looks like – a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded.