| So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston. |
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| His most influential interpreter carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide. |
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| To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons. |
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| These differences came to a head when a would-be regicide appealed for assistance from the society. |
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| Part of me aches to see all Royals beheaded, and I recommend regicide as a fitting career path for my students. |
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| His most influential interpreter, Mencius, carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide. |
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| As Exton offers the usurper, now King Henry IV, the body of the dead king he lays claim to a reward for regicide. |
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| Yes, yes, regicide was often accompanied by such atrocities, but this was the 20th century. |
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| Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed. |
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| Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades. |
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| But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship. |
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| Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide? |
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| The 55th anniversary of one such regicide passed three days ago. |
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| In the hands of the Protestant exiles in the 1550s, conciliarism mutated into forms of resistance theory which justified regicide or the deposition of kings. |
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| There was an immediate clampdown on any subject that smacked of regicide and the San Carlo attempted to foist on Verdi its own re-write of the libretto. |
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| In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted. |
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| Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists. |
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| It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another. |
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| With the regicide of King Louis XVI in 1793, the French Revolution represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations. |
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| With the return of the Bourbons, David had to go into exile as a regicide. |
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| Thus began the history of regicide and genocide that was repeated on an even more terrible scale in the 20th century by the creeds of national socialism and international socialism. |
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| That is perhaps a rather bizarre message, coming from a representative of the Church of Sweden, but the idea of a regicide in the service of the people is otherwise quite an old one. |
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| Other traditionalists, such as members of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, based in New York, have denounced the burial as an act of blasphemy almost comparable to the 1918 regicide itself. |
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| But he was recaptured by Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, a regicide who hoped to win a pardon by handing Lambert over to the new regime. |
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| Committing regicide at Dell now would not be smart. |
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| He was supported by an influential faction of monastic churchmen, who condoned his regicide of Emperor Yitbarek and legitimated his descent from Solomon. |
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| He was a regicide and served on the Council of State during the Commonwealth, being forced to flee to Switzerland after the Restoration. |
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| Elizabeth herself signed the death warrant that led to regicide, the beheading of her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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| Its acts of regicide and sacrilege were unmistakable. |
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| On July 29th 2004, in the 104th anniversary of the regicide, the Turinese anarchists covered up Umberto's monument, lying on Superga hill, in Turin, and affixed a tablet in memory of Gaetano Bresci. |
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| The reactions to the regicide and to subsequent events varied considerably between the three Kingdoms and the English Dominions. |
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| Lisbon was the site of the regicide of Carlos I of Portugal in 1908, an event which culminated two years later in the First Republic. |
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| War, plague, famine, regicide, and changes in religious power and structure often adversely affected the societies that provided support for universities. |
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| Critics have long wrestled with the question of why an antimonarchist and defender of regicide should have chosen a subject that obliged him to defend monarchical authority. |
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