ancien regime in a sentence

Examples

1. This was a reason the Ancien Regime Ottoman Empire was so successful, because the Sultan didn't force any major changes on populations as he conquered them.
2. Described as a haughty " grande dame " and as an ancien regime royalist she is said to have cowed the emperor in to silence at times.
3. The sloping hillside, planted with 3, 000 California live oaks in a rigid grid formation, carries us back to the tortured topiary gardens of the ancien regime.
4. In their symbolism ( four open books ) and their symmetry, the library's four towers recall the radical classicism that preceded the downfall of the ancien regime.
5. Cheering them on was Rush Limbaugh, an honorary member of the freshman class of'94, who deployed talk radio as a battering ram against the citadels of the ancien regime.
6. The simplest explanation is that, as the Jews began to emerge from the heaviest restrictions of the ancien regime, money-dealing was at first the only avenue open to them.
7. This magisterial sheet is also a nostalgic commemoration of the ancien regime that Domenico had now outlived and Tiepolo & Co . had served so well for so long.
8. Historical references abound : looking over their shoulders to the 1940s, the 30s, Regency England, the ancien regime, most California designers have pillaged from every epoch but their own.
9. His hybrid esthetic ( " evolution, not revolution " ) endeared him neither to classicism's ancien regime nor to iconoclastic peers like Maguy Marin, Jean-Claude Gallotta and Daniel Larrieu.
10. "There could be no more striking sample of the decisions by which the ancien regime rejuvenated itself, " the opposition La Repubblica newspaper said on Thursday, referring to Berlusconi's actions.