Pushed on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers in Europe.
Freedom was threatened in early modern times by the emergence of monarchies that might have been able to crush it.
Both Google and Facebook are run like absolute monarchies in which hundreds of millions of users (digital serfs, some might say) have created identities.
Maintaining the stability of the pro-Western Gulf monarchies, deterring Iran, and securing the region's energy resources will continue to be an American national interest for the foreseeable future.
You did have monarchies like Spain, England, and France, namely.
The vices, concealments, and crimes which are the diseases of republics are the very health and existence of monarchies.
Most of the other countries there, whether monarchies or republics, also have structures that seem increasingly anomalous in the modern world.
The first of these modes of appropriation, by the government, is characteristic of the extensive monarchies which from a time beyond historical record have occupied the plains of Asia.
"Look at the map of this region, there are monarchies all around, " you said.
And as Arab republics collapse—from Libya to Syria, Iraq and Yemen—the monarchies are proving more resilient.
As for many Egyptian contractors, its biggest cash cows are the oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf, but Maridive also operates in places such as the Caspian Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
The monarchies of Jordan, Morocco, and the Gulf states also have cause for concern.
While Iraq is undoubtedly less threatening than it was under Saddam and still subject to American influence, the Gulf monarchies now regard it as an Iranian satellite.
There are three types of succession in monarchies.
Other Arab states, especially the monarchies, have so far parried calls for change with seeming success, using the familiar mix of coercion, co-option and promises.
There are monarchies everywhere, and this basically corresponds with the mentality of the people, as well as long-standing practice.
Again, the territorial issues among the Gulf monarchies can fundamentally be regarded as resource-based disputes.
It is merit which they believe they put in power as substitutes for the rascals who are the very essence of monarchies.
There are several constitutional monarchies in Europe.
The shortage of male offspring had prompted discussions earlier this year by politicians of changing the law to allow a female sovereign, as is the case in many European monarchies.
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