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31. His son, M.. Vanderk fils, retains the prejudice of the nobility against commerce.

32. Yet in the longer term a regime resting upon the narrowing social base of the landowning nobility was doomed.

33. The landed nobility showed no inclination to build bridges with urban property-owners, let alone workers and peasants.

34. Women have often been used as symbols of virtue and nobility.

35. The most outspoken advocates of public participation in central government were a minority of activists among the provincial nobility.

36. The conflict between nobility,[www.Sentencedict.com] emperor and papacy was to be a constant and powerful factor throughout his reign.

37. The play attacks the corruption and depravity of the nobility as well as unjust laws and edicts.

38. For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.

39. The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art.

40. The 22.8 million serfs privately owned by members of the nobility were emancipated.

41. The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.

42. Most of the pictures celebrate the nobility of working with one's hands.

43. It also explains why the Tsar was able to secure the acquiescence of the nobility.

44. His most striking imposition on the nobility was the introduction of compulsory, lifelong service to the State.

45. The position of the dominant stratum, the feudal nobility, was based on large grants of land from the king.

46. There is pathos to be found in it in abundance, and images of love and great nobility of spirit.

47. Harriet Walter plays her excellently as a woman who combines a strong sexuality with a defiant nobility of character.

48. But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.

49. The Nottingham bank attracted the business of neighbouring nobility and gentry as well as that of local hosiery manufacturers and traders.

50. The problem was the aristocratic aestheticism that the court nobility had bequeathed to Viennese bourgeois culture.

51. Like the provincial nobility of the northern provinces, this was a working nobility.

52. By the fifteenth century the higher ranks of the nobility had taken over again.

53. Nobility could be found anywhere, and Charity allowed herself to feel faintly optimistic about her future as a cocktail waitress.

54. Although the Empress submitted momentarily, divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors' terms.

55. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Ralph Waldo Emerson 

56. The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility.

57. It is only their courageous sacrifice and innate nobility that illuminates the bloody and senseless war they are involved in.

58. The nobility of Savoy was also closely linked to the upper echelons of the clergy.

59. Further, and more important, it was open to doubt whether the nobility was properly trained for war.

60. It was, by its very nature, committed first and foremost to the interests of the landed nobility.