But acclamation did not rule out the possibility of hereditary or even dynastic successions. |
Although the Angevin monarchs no longer had most of their Angevin lands, their grand dynastic visions had not diminished. |
Then again, this is part and parcel of most political systems, including China's dynastic cycles. |
They sometimes came into conflict with the Burmese dynastic rulers, or with other ethnic groups inclined to wage war. |
There was a strong dynastic element in the composition of these workshop teams. |
Above the bench in the courtroom there was a double-headed eagle, a very ancient dynastic symbol representing the union of church and state. |