"emperor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- An emperor might also adopt a major deity as his personal patron or tutelary, as Augustus did Apollo.
- Every emperor of Rome adopted his name, Caesar Augustus, which gradually lost its character as a name and eventually became a title.
- Following Constantine's deathbed conversion in 337 all emperors adopted Christianity, except for Julian the Apostate who, during his brief reign, attempted unsuccessfully to re-instate paganism.
- At the time he appears to have believed that the new emperor, Michael II (r. 820-829), would adopt a pro-icons policy, and he expressed this hope in two letters to Michael.
- The emperor also adopted Adélina's daughter, Olive, in 1850.
- Von Schmerling took to rewriting the October Diploma, and in February 1861, the emperor adopted the February Patent.
- The emperor never adopted ideas, common during the era, espousing racial inequality.
- Legalism remained influential until the emperors of the Han Dynasty adopted Daoism and later Confucianism as official doctrine.
- The new emperor soon adopted Indian ways of waging war: from war Elephants to the Bagh Nakh, or "tiger claw".
- The childless emperor adopted Zheng's eldest son and granted him the imperial surname.
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