"The kingdom of heaven suffers violence," said Jesus, "and violent men take it by force" (Matt.
When his kingdom suffers a serious food shortage, the king was advised to kill his two sons as a magical remedy for the famine.
The kingdom suffered a number of attacks from the Picts under Óengus and later their Northumbrian allies between 744 and 756.
If I run, then I'll be the only one in trouble, but if I try to be king, the whole kingdom suffers!
After the death of the founding king, however, the kingdom suffered from internal strife, and was soon swallowed up by Southern Tang, another southern kingdom.
Nonetheless, Henry inherited a difficult situation in England, as the kingdom had suffered extensively during the civil war.
When he is injured, his kingdom suffers as he does, his impotence affecting the fertility of the land and reducing it to a barren Wasteland.
The entire kingdom had suffered, until, so the song said, his cousin, of pure Farseer blood, had rallied six nobles' sons to his cause.
As a result the kingdom suffered a fate worse than the Enywas' attack.
In the usual version of the story, at the time that the boy becomes a young man, the kingdom of Anga suffers from drought and famine.