suzerain

Among these suzerains of chateaux and belfries, the most powerful, the richest, and the most popular, was M.

Great Britain sent nearly half a million soldiers into the South African war theater--more soldiers than the United States sent to Europe during the Second World War--to assert its ultimate or suzerain control over the South Africa Republic's gold mines.

political economy structural change--and criminal gang and cartel socio-environmental modification of areas under their suzerain (e.g.

The Trump administration certainly has the right to double-down on the policies of its predecessor and help install Iran as Syria's suzerain, with the Assad entourage sifting through the country's ruins for spoils and setting the stage for successive waves and varieties of extremism arising in response.

After a brief war to settle "the sultanate pass[ing] from the ruler in Iraq to the ruler in Khurasan" (ibid., 83), Muhammad Tapar's son and heir MahmQd, who ruled in the 'Iraqayn, unequivocally acknowledged Sanjar as suzerain (ibid., 88-89); Zahir al-Din Nishapuri, Saljuqnama, ed.

One can find good illustrations of the confluence of power and norms in ancient Roman diplomacy towards barbarians and the development of ius gentium, the unique practices of the Chinese suzerain system such as kowtowing, and the Ottoman practice of humiliating foreign envoys.

these goods remain the only one acceptable in payment, the suzerain of all the others, one whose value, by a temporary but real privilege [...], is socially and regularly determined in its oscillations [...] Until, by a radical reform in the industrial organisation, all produced values have been constituted and determined like currency [...] money preserves its royalty, and it is of it alone which one can say that to accumulate wealth is to accumulate power.

The Turkish noun bas became in Romanian a pseudoprefix that formed the compounds bas-boier, hos-bataus, hos-neghiob); haraci/ 'tribute' (tax that the Christian states, the vassals of the Ottoman Empire had to pay to the suzerain power annually); olac (commissioning of work consisting in providing horses for couriers and messengers.

In any event, the Korean king fled Seoul and, as a Korea's suzerain, China dispatched military forces to Korea.

(16) Furthermore, the relationship between the ruling dynasty and its neighboring countries is one of a suzerain to its vassals, as China always saw itself as the heart of an empire that morally stretches all over East Asia, if not all over the world.