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the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
Elizabeth's accession in 1558
How To Use rise to power In A Sentence
- In general, historians tend to portray Somerset's rise to power as logically inevitable and to cast Mary as a marginalized from the jockeying for political position that took place amongst the executor-councilors during the first two months of Edward VI's reign. 11 Hindsight makes it easy to forget that the political situation taking shape after Henry's death in late January 1547 initially appeared unstable. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
- After his father's death, he was able to rise to power and take centre stage.
- With populism, the working class pays its supposed rise to power with silence.
- Death of Don Joseph Nasi, a wealthy Jewish businessman (born as a Marrano in Portugal) who moved to Istanbul from Europe in 1554 and gained much influence by financing the rise to power of Selim II. C. 1570
- Back at the king's court, many warily watched the cardinal's rapid rise to power.
- It helps to mar what is otherwise a perfectly respectable account of the old soak's rise to power.
- It helps to mar what is otherwise a perfectly respectable account of the old soak's rise to power.
- But his rise to power will not be the only remarkable event of his career, for he has called upon the Federation to send an envoy to begin negotiating a peace between the two powers.
- In order to rise to power, the shrewd chieftain of the Fascists did not hesitate to play the role of the apostle of free enterprise, advocating the immediate dismantling of all forms of wartime planning of economic activities.
- He supported Mussolini's rise to power, but retired from active political life in 1925.