| The Emperor of China would employ eunuchs, castrated men, as guards and servants in his Palace. |
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| The House of Commons, inundated by a quota system guaranteed to promote mediocrity, had become a government harem populated by political eunuchs. |
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| This ceremony is supposed to mark an important event in the life of the eunuchs, when they realise their dream of marrying for once. |
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| Only in the domestic sphere did they remain predominant, and the top of that pyramid was now occupied by the court eunuchs. |
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| A small number of eunuchs are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female characteristics, or transvestites. |
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| Another group who owed their existence in the Capital Region solely to the presence of the imperial court in Beijing were eunuchs. |
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| While the eunuchs danced, men held money over the heads of people they wanted to honour. |
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| In this case it will be interesting to see if the unions can act as anything more than the castrated eunuchs that they are. |
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| I think it does count. I don't think owners are cultural eunuchs, and I don't think they're cultural nihilists either. |
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| Devoting himself entirely to pleasure-seeking, he relied on his eunuchs for information on the government. |
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| And he ensured that he surrounded himself with political eunuchs. |
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| Manu has declared that those Brahmanas who are thieves, outcasts, eunuchs, or atheists are unworthy to partake of oblations offered to gods and ancestors. |
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| Why were eunuchs not allowed to become the city prefect of Constantinople? |
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| To gain entrance, the French soldiers had only to shove aside the dozen or so terrified eunuchs who tried to bar the way. |
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| It turns out they are an obscure sect of eunuchs who believe that Empress Catherine the Great's murdered son will one day return as the Messiah. |
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| He refused to play the emperor's role in government, and delegated many responsibilities to eunuchs, who made up their own faction. |
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| The imperial household was staffed almost entirely by eunuchs and ladies with their own bureaus. |
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| The dynasty had a vast imperial household, staffed with thousands of eunuchs, who were headed by the Directorate of Palace Attendants. |
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| Less screen time for Lannisters, eunuchs, and armored heroines, more screen time for neon-eyed C. G. I. snarlers, staggering toward us in a grim blue-gray snow. |
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| Partly because of this indiscretion, when he grew ill and lay dying in 1457 his brother, with the aid of a group of palace eunuchs, reascended the throne and disposed of the dying Jingtai. |
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| The people of Europe do not want their external borders to be controlled by thugs, but neither do they want to have them controlled by blinded and limbless eunuchs. |
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| Chinese emperors favoured employing eunuchs in senior positions. |
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| Perhaps in protest, more than a dozen eunuchs, a despised but assertive group, are running for office. Caste considerations are what draw the masses into this democratic scrum. |
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| A study on eunuchs found they live 13.5 years longer than men who are intact. Testosterone-driven behaviour means that men are more likely than women to die in accidents, and more likely to die from the violence of others. |
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| In the movie, The Last Emperor, when the emperor tells the eunuchs to leave the palace, they have a ceremony where they are given back those body parts that were removed. |
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| And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. |
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| Construction projects were usually the domain of eunuchs, who were often assigned to supervise it. |
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| The undertaking of these expeditions only remained possible as long as the eunuchs maintained imperial favor. |
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| Including these personnel who were all eunuchs, there was a total of 70 eunuchs in command of the treasure fleet. |
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| A small number of eunuchs were also acquired by the slave traders in the southern parts of Ethiopia. |
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| Some of the young boys had become eunuchs due to the battle traditions that were at the time endemic to parts of southern Ethiopia. |
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| In Cairo, transactions involving eunuchs and concubines happened in private houses. |
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| By the 2nd century, the empire declined amidst land acquisitions, invasions, and feuding between consort clans and eunuchs. |
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| The eunuchs developed their own bureaucracy that was organized parallel to but was not subject to the civil service bureaucracy. |
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| The four bearers, all unwhiskered eunuchs, stood in front of the chairs, their hands tucked into their sleeves, looks of disdain on their faces. |
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| As a result one of eunuchs identified as Sana and drumbeater Ibrahim were killed on the spot while Mukhtiar, Rafiq and Qamar were injured. |
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| He adopted many Yuan military practices, recruited Mongol soldiers, and continued to request Korean concubines and eunuchs. |
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| The Hongwu Emperor forbade eunuchs to learn how to read or engage in politics. |
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| Zheng He governed the city with three eunuchs for internal matters and two military noblemen for external matters. |
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| In contrast to the Hongxi Emperor, who relied on civil officials during his reign, the Xuande Emperor would rely on eunuchs during his reign. |
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| The consequence was that eunuchs were unable to gather enough support to initiate projects opposed by the civil government. |
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| An alternative story circulated after the battle that Valens had escaped the field with a bodyguard and some eunuchs, and hid in a peasant's cottage. |
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| On 30 January 1406, the Yongle Emperor expressed horror when the Ryukyuans castrated some of their own children to become eunuchs to serve in the Ming imperial palace. |
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| One of the Yongle Emperor's consorts was a Jurchen princess, which resulted in many of the eunuchs serving him being of Jurchen origin, notably Yishiha. |
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| At that time they say that the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that Roma had perished. |
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| The treasure fleet's construction was not different in that eunuchs were assigned to supervise it, while the military were assigned to carry it out. |
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| The eunuchs were divided into different directorates in charge of staff surveillance, ceremonial rites, food, utensils, documents, stables, seals, apparel, and so on. |
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| However, within Ming China's imperial state system, the civil government were the primary political opponents of the eunuchs and the opposing faction against the expeditions. |
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| Select groups which the Raj reformers wanted to monitor statistically included those reputed to practice female infanticide, prostitutes, lepers, and eunuchs. |
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| Starting in the 1420s, eunuchs began taking over these ladies' positions until only the Bureau of Apparel with its four subsidiary offices remained. |
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| This documentary offers a rare insight into the lives of four Indian hijras or eunuchs as theyattendthe annual Koovagam Festival, the biggest eunuch gathering in India. |
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