| After the restoration of the absolute monarchy in 1814, Goya narrowly survived a purge. |
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| The convocation of a national representative assembly meant the end of absolute monarchy. |
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| In Riyadh, the absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia walks a fine line to maintain power. |
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| In a word, no distinction was now drawn between despotism, tyranny, and absolute monarchy. |
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| Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, was a crucial pivot of U.S. policy from the 1970s forward. |
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| Prior to independence and before the partial democratic dispensation of the British the country had been ruled by absolute monarchy, stretched for centuries. |
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| Restored to his throne by CIA intervention, the shah presided over an oppressive absolute monarchy. |
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| Some have called for an appointed government and even a return to absolute monarchy. |
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| On 19 December 2005, King Jigme Jigme Singye Wangchuck announced that a century of absolute monarchy would come to an end. |
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| Smiling, he adds, « I'm the chief, but I must also consult, have the offices study the questions raised. h isn't an absolute monarchy here. |
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| Nepal was an absolute monarchy until 1990, when the King agreed to large-scale political reforms that introduced a parliamentary monarchy. |
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| It is more than three hundred years since the Glorious Revolution was to have freed us from the tyranny of an absolute monarchy ruling by divine right. |
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| As an absolute monarchy there was comfort in an Arab world of other autocracies. |
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| Ever since the absolute monarchy was abolished by a military putsch in 1974, the country has been in a state of constant instability. |
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| The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute monarchy. |
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| His kingship was thought to contain elements of the early modern absolute monarchy as exemplified by the Tudor dynasty. |
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| Burke, as a Whig, did not wish to see an absolute monarchy again in France after the extirpation of Jacobinism. |
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| Throughout much of European history, the divine right of kings was the theological justification for absolute monarchy. |
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| The years between 1789 and 1809, then, are also referred to as a period of absolute monarchy. |
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| All three were united in opposing Sir Robert Filmer's defence of divine right and absolute monarchy. |
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| Whether it should be regarded as a constitutional or an absolute monarchy is a matter of opinion. |
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| Qatar is either a constitutional or an absolute monarchy ruled by the Al Thani family. |
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| A classical liberal, he took part in agitation for a constitution and reforms in Prussia, then governed by an absolute monarchy. |
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| Oman is an absolute monarchy in which all legislative, executive, and judiciary power ultimately rests in the hands of the hereditary Sultan. |
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| Saudi Arabia remains an absolute monarchy. |
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| Dissent is even stirring under Saudi Arabia's absolute monarchy. |
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| In 2006, Bhutan's king ordered an end to absolute monarchy. |
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| The former advocates democracy and the latter practices absolute monarchy. |
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| You operate on the principles of absolute monarchy. |
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| In 2008, the absolute monarchy in place since the early 1900s is expected to make progress towards a parliamentary democracy with a written constitution. |
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| The Savoy residences represent a complete picture of monumental EU between '600 and '700, symbolized by their style, space and their size the idea of absolute monarchy. |
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| The policies first of Richelieu and then of Louis XIV centralised not only the political, but also the cultural life of France, with the arts and music made servants to the ideal of absolute monarchy. |
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| Between 1648 and 1871, Alsace moved little by little from a feudal system under the control of the German Empire to the absolute monarchy of the french regime. |
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| Its importance lies in the fact that it was one of the first instances in Europe of assertion of the rights of a people in the face of an absolute monarchy. |
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| Since 1932 Thailand was the theatre of 18 military coups d'etat without bloodshed passing from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy as in the United Kingdom. |
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| His grandson Charles I inherited a vast empire of Europe and America, and his reign and his son Philip II were the years of greatest influence of Castile and the consolidation of absolute monarchy. |
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| Since the political reform of the absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand has had 19 constitutions and charters. |
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| Swaziland is an absolute monarchy with constitutional provisions and Swazi Law and customs. |
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| In many countries, the resolution of this conflict was the rise of absolute monarchy. |
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| The majority of Spanish Americans continued to support the idea of maintaining a monarchy under Ferdinand VII, but did not support retaining absolute monarchy. |
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| Some records indicate the ceremony has taken place since the Medieval era, while others place its origins in the 16th century, when England was an absolute monarchy. |
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| The political system of the principate, which had retained some features of the republican constitution, began to transform itself into the absolute monarchy of the dominate. |
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| They rejected a new absolute monarchy and advised him instead to convoke a constituent assembly to draw up a liberal constitution and decide the form of government. |
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| Korea under the Joseon dynasty was also an absolute monarchy. |
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| With the introduction of absolute monarchy in Denmark, the Icelanders relinquished their autonomy to the crown, including the right to initiate and consent to legislation. |
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| In Denmark, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, the absolute monarchy lost its personal possession of Norway to another absolute monarchy, Sweden. |
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