(n.) Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.
(n.) The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion.
(n.) The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.
(n.) To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.
(n.) Hence, to be predominant; to prevail.
(n.) To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
(2) The problem, however, is that this scale of economic planning and management is entirely outside the boundaries of our reigning ideology.
(3) The palace and the politicians expect a smooth succession to the reign of Charles III, even though he is a man who has spent his life demonstrating how woefully unqualified he is to be a constitutional king.
(4) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(5) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(6) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
(7) Twenty years ago, before the reign of Charlie Mayfield, the present CEO, the company's cleaners and caterers were all outsourced to save money.
(8) When asked whether he was encouraged that Liverpool’s players were still clearly playing for their manager he issued an impassioned defence of his reign, but also warned the club faced a lengthy rebuilding job, “whether that is with me or someone else in the job”.
(9) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
(10) With this in mind, his new deal feels like Miami paying for past results, rewarding Bosh for his often overlooked contributions during the Heat's four-season reign on top of the East.
(11) That decision has caused anger among Leeds’ fans after Redfearn saved Leeds from relegation from the Championship after being given the job in the wake of the ill-fated reigns of the unknown David Hockaday and the little known Darko Milanic.
(12) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(13) Ferguson was not about to let another slip by the reigning champions to escape unpunished.
(14) Northern Ireland , meanwhile, must attempt to emerge from a section that includes the reigning world champions Italy and the World Cup qualifiers Serbia and Slovenia.
(15) The cardinal consistently condemned homosexuality during his reign, vociferously opposing gay adoption and same-sex marriage.
(16) In Britain, an embarrassed silence now reigns where David Cameron’s promised “comprehensive strategy” is supposed to be.
(17) While caricatures of welfare dependents reign unchallenged, pressing practical questions about how poor people can make ends meet are ducked.
(18) He was technically king of Wessex but was referred to as king of the English towards the end of his reign.
(19) Dismantling the reigning champions would normally serve as a statement of intent at Chelsea, though this was all too easy.
(20) "It is not the nicest period of my life," admitted the Dutchman, appearing more dejected than at any time in his two-and-a-half-year reign.
Victorian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(2) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
(3) The prevalence of past infection with hepatitis B virus in health care personnel was investigated by questionnaire and by a serological survey of personnel in a representative selection of Victorian hospitals and institutions.
(4) Friends says Cameron has no wish to take Britain back to a Victorian values "back to basics" agenda.
(5) In contrast to the aggressive capitalism of the US, for example, he observed that in spite of the Victorian boom: “England did not become a business society ...
(6) Rather than his extensive musings on art and politics, Morris is perhaps better known for his wallpaper and fabric designs of the late Victorian period.
(7) Victoria published its school funding heads of agreement in early August, and a Victorian government spokeswoman said this week it considered that binding.
(8) Ian Hislop’s Victorian Benefits airs on 7 April on BBC2.
(9) On the information available to me all relevant matters were dealt with in compliance with commonwealth law and to the satisfaction of the Australian Electoral Commission.” “The Liberal party regarded working papers and process issues as internal matters between it and the AEC.” The Victorian Nationals and the NT Country Liberals did not respond to requests for comment.
(10) Mike Ashley running Sports Direct like 'Victorian workhouse' Read more I find the fact that the majority of workers at Shirebrook are agency staff troubling.
(11) An audit of the interval cases of cervical cancer that had been diagnosed within 36 months of a smear having been reported as negative by the Victorian Cytology Gynaecological Service among women registered with cervical cancer during 1982-6.
(12) I act with deeds and words, because the government seems determined to resurrect the old Victorian approach to disabled people.
(13) "We inherited a crumbling infrastructure, starved of funding; Victorian schools with rundown gyms, and thousands of playing fields sold off," Sutcliffe said.
(14) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(15) The rather small amount of semen the man ejaculates suggests he is a frequent masturbator.” To my surprise, I sense there is some nobility in Gerald’s enterprise and I recall a book written by a professor who is not quite so brilliant as me, in which Victorian sexual activity was explored through the prism of voyeurism.
(16) The fall took place at a three-storey Victorian house in Herne Hill, near Brixton, where the group are believed to have lived for about seven years from 1997.
(17) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(18) While Victorians celebrated the empire on which the sun would never set with successive jubilees (golden, 1887, and diamond, 1897), many readers fretted over foreign (increasingly German) threats to the harmony of English life.
(19) Origin Energy , which owns Australia’s largest power station, Eraring, has proposed a progressive phase-out of brown coal generation in response to a Victorian government review of climate policy.
(20) The AWU’s Victorian branch secretary, Ben Davis, ordered the correction in February 2015.