“When Prussia defeated France in 1870, it initiated the establishment of a new German Empire, a monarchy over monarchies.”

“Can people move directly from a clan-based system to democracy, skipping monarchy and feudalism?”

“In Riyadh, the absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia walks a fine line to maintain power.”

“It reiterated the right of the kingdom's monarch to make appointments to high ecclesiastic offices within his realm.”

“Some people in England feared that their royal monarch would become a despotic monarch.”

“It is asserted somewhat fervidly that the United Company is the absolute monarch of the industry.”

“It is certain that National Socialism does not favor monarchism and is definitely republican in conviction.”

“Red Tories are a slightly different breed of libertarians who usually support Canadian traditions like monarchism and anti-Americanism.”

“There reason to see the Church as an agent of monarchism and social hierarchy.”

“The mistaken view is that the nationalist camp is a compact mass with serious monarchist longings.”

“We didn't really take much notice of the fact that he was an aristocrat and a monarchist.”

“This last point was directed against all those who question the present constitution as Spanish centralist and monarchist.”

“Our government and the corporations whose investments it protects have propped up corrupt monarchies and single-party autocracies.”

“The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage.”

“The Bourbon monarchies of Parma and Naples were swept by hysteria, and the Pope anathematized reform as a threat to faith itself.”

“The English and French monarchs were kings and queens of the land and not the people.”

“But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed.”

“One reason why absolute monarchs in Europe in the seventeenth century required large standing armies was to defend their extensive borders.”