emperor

Example Sentences

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There are similar moments in the enthronement of the Japanese emperor.

From BBC

That changed with the deposition of the country’s emperor in 1974, sparking the Ethiopian Civil War and leaving Ethiopian students and urban professionals abroad stranded and fearful of returning.

From Seattle Times

The Roman emperor Nero was fascinated by the Nile River, which despite being the longest river in the world had an unknown origin until relatively recently.

From Salon

To put that in perspective - the last Mughal emperor was toppled just about a decade before Gandhi was born; and earlier Indian nationalists like Dadabhai Naoroji grew into adulthood while the emperor was still around.

From BBC

In ancient Rome, wine mattered so much that the emperor himself opened each year’s wine grape harvest by cutting a symbolic cluster of grapes.

From Science Magazine