Upon the advent of the second Jin emperor, Emperor Hui, various imperial princes tried to grab power in the devastating War of the Eight Princes.

Oil benefits a handful of princes.

The members of the confederation were German princes ( Fürsten ) from the Holy Roman Empire.

Perhaps the princes believe that it is easier to kill terrorist criminals than to crush demands for social justice.

Yury returned to Russia, hated by other princes and populace alike, in 1319.

Princes patronize the game, not because they love the game, but because it was a means of ingratiating themselves to the British rulers.

The citizens of the city revolted several times against the prince bishop, until decisively defeated in 1400.

Indeed, King Abdullah sent only a junior prince to accompany Karzai in Mecca, a studied diplomatic affront.

Then there is the long tradition of the court jester with license to criticize the despot by sweetening his barbs with jokes.

Abaqa took power four months after the death of his father, and then spent the next several months redistributing fiefs and governorships.

In a country that is said to belong to the royal family and is named after it, the lines between state assets and the personal wealth of senior princes are blurred.

You can almost joke everything about these princelings, everything! It's almost like you're living in the United States.

He descends in the direct male line from merely three of the previous fourteen Princes of Liechtenstein, and of another (again from two of the above mentioned three) in the female line.

In order to maintain absolutist power and to minimize public anger, the Saudi princes, led by Prince Naif, asked the reformers to sign an agreement that they would never again ask for reform.

By this marriage John I became the father of a generation of princes called by the poet Luís de Camões, the marvellous generation , which led Portugal into its golden age, during the period of the Discoveries.

The unseemly race to recruit princelings starts at the world s leading colleges and universities. Because China has no universities that rival the Ivy League or Oxford and Cambridge, senior Chinese officials prefer to send their children to these schools.

Saudi ambivalence about Karzai, despite his being a Sunni Muslim, was on open display during his visit to the Kingdom. Indeed, King Abdullah sent only a junior prince to accompany Karzai in Mecca, a studied diplomatic affront.

Outside China, princelings are feeling the heat as well. Not long ago, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it was investigating JPMorgan Chase s hiring of princelings in Hong Kong, who apparently delivered lucrative underwriting deals for the bank.

Every sign indicates that the wave of democratization in Kuwait is irreversible, and the impact of these changes extends beyond Kuwait to all the other oil rich Gulf countries, which are also ruled by emirs and sheikhs.