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Then a special mayoral election would be held, with the regnant deputy barred from running.

Liberalism, for nearly half a century this country's regnant political philosophy, apparently now belongs to history - and to the historians.

The former occurred as Islam became a society's regnant religio-political framework.

Members of reigning houses or of formerly regnant families are excluded from eligibility.

Cleopatra is regnant, and born to it.

He had found Theodore more than ever regnant, and the mammoth Taft apparently indispensable.

This was news at a time when academic metafiction was the regnant mode.

Their goals are to sizzle, bop or disable their regnant competitor.

It seems to challenge regnant theodicies.

Well into his fourth beer, he comes up with this regnant metaphor: "You don't necessarily want to drink Cognac every night.

Like Churchill, Reagan, the argument goes, was dismissed as a crackpot by the regnant liberal establishment, but proved a prophet.

As he explains: "There is no denying that invention builds with cliche, with the regnant cliches of its own time.

This command was obeyed, and Isabella found herself treated with all the respect and deference she might expect as a regnant duchess.

Former Junas, goddesses no longer regnant.

He was the spirit of regnant labor as he stood there, his hands outreaching to rend and crush his audience.

Southwest Airlines, whose regnant advertising bit is "the freedom to fly," wrote an employee "promise line" last year: "Freedom begins with me."

And we've other sources of friction, inevitable; and thoughts of breaking away or violently replacing the regnant Emperor are no longer unthinkable.

"Clinton was trying to challenge the regnant orthodoxy of his day, which was conservativism," Mr. Gergen said.

I have to be Pharaoh, and I'll be that before I grow up," said the child apparently not enamored of his regnant destiny.

Owner of a title, also appearing as "Ijoye") in the way that kings and queens regnant use 'Oba'.

Leonida's branch of the Bagratids, although genealogically senior, had not been regnant in the male line as kings of Georgia since 1505.

The deceased husband of Ravenna Fontainon, he was bestowed the rights and privileges of a regnant monarch by his father-in-law, the previous king.

I dreaded the flash of lovely flame, and the outburst of regnant anger, ere I should have time to say that I was not to blame.

One of the most divisive issues now among intellectuals may be whether one agrees with Mr. Podhoretz about the existence of a "regnant leftist culture" and its effects.

Moreover, the agency, even while supporting important projects in the fine arts, has followed the now regnant belief that notions of "high" and "fine" are matters of aristocratic snobbery.