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Synonyms for regnant

most generally existing or encountered at a given time

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Synonyms for regnant

exercising power or authority

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So, the essay uses Corregidora to review a motif that is regnant within a whole literary tradition as well as to demonstrate how a single text might be self-conscious and self-critical about that motif The result is a remarkable essay that calls on the field of African Americanist literary criticism to exercise greater self-criticism or at least self-questioning about repetition and continuity as formal, ethical, and political strategies for African American writing.
The dish about Cond` Nast's kings and queens regnant will be tasty to those who know them, but will anyone beyond their own (dwindling) clan even care?
The decision to proclaim independence is taken in August, 1908 at a meeting between Knyaz (Prince Regnant) Ferdinand and the Prime Minister Alexander Malinov in Hungary.
Trump may have to use the tools of progressivism in order to achieve the destruction of the regnant progressive coalition, which would surely collapse if it were to lose enough black votes.
Queens regnant have typically been ill-defined figures, anomalous entities in a patriarchal society (Dugan 1997, xx).
"Victoria is the only Queen Regnant to marry and give birth while on the throne and the challenges of being head of state as well as a wife and mother are legion.
At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable challenge of being a young, female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world, but also of reforming a major European kingdom riddled with crime, debt, corruption, and religious factions.
The regnant Miss Cebu 2016 Raine Baljak came with her court-Tracy Perez, Shaila Mae Rebortera, Merl Gayo and Felina Lim, garbed by Dino Lloren; Roni Yu, Mary Ty, Rei Escario and Marichu Tan.
P REGNANT women, teenage girls and women of reproductive age are among the most vulnerable to iron deficiency anaemia because of high iron requirements.
Queen Margrethe II is the first Queen regnant of Denmark after an unbroken line of 50 kings dating back to King Harald, who founded the Kingdom of Denmark in the tenth century.
Among the Queen's numerous female correspondents, was the uniquely comparable Dona Maria da Gloria II, Queen of Portugal--exactly the same age as Victoria, married to one of her cousins, and dealing with the same problems of reconciling the roles of wife, mother, both queen regnant and queen pregnant.
As a useful antidote to the regnant egalitarianism of our time, I recommend (and practise) an annual re-reading of George Orwell's masterpiece Animal Farm-, better than any political science text, it explains how equality enslaves rather than liberates.