“By the end of his life, he had amassed a considerable fortune, but as a dynast he had a serious flaw.”

“He was a dynast in a world system dominated by nation-states, and his appeal to democratic principles was, for that reason, tactical and politically opportunistic.”

“In Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, or Oman, the nation-state evolves in a political environment shaped by the dynast, his family, and their effective concentration of power.”

“But ignoring it leaves a festering anti-democratic dynasticism at the heart of our political system.”

“Bihar has seen feudalism, capitalism, separatism, nepotism, fascism and dynasticism.”

“Instead, she lived her life as if she were going to be running against Jeb Bush, a candidate as burdened by charges of dynasticism and political profiteering as she was.”

“Founder of the Merovingian dynasty was Merovaeus, said to be descended from the union of a sea creature and a French queen.”

“The treasures of a dynasty that survived a civil war and the Great Fire of London are to be displayed to the public.”

“It was during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar in the Chaldean dynasty in Babylon that the circle was divided into 360 degrees.”

“Prior to the modern period, states were justified by reference to their rulers, their dynasties, and their religion.”

“Totems of specific clans, healers, or royal dynasties are taboo to certain members of some ethnic groups.”

“The short and troubled reigns of Cnut's sons saw the rise of powerful dynasties in England.”