enthrone
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The fund helped steady the finances of war-ravaged Europe, enthrone the dollar as the international currency and shore up U.S. allies from Britain to Korea.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2017
And the knights launched a revolt to enthrone the son of one of them, 20-year-old Stanislas Parvulesco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015
To depose the rule of force, and to enthrone the rule of law in the disposition of international differences is imperative .
From Time Magazine Archive
Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly, "he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he could your brother."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Von Stuck delights in contrasts: On the “Orpheus wall,” he enthrones the mythical lyre-player above tamed animals in an architectural fresco based on Pompeian murals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Karole Armitage's choreography also keeps the joint jumping and Scott Pask's design ironically enthrones the excellent band in a vast military truck.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2010
The soul of all the great medieval period enwraps this silver coffin, giving to it a noble unity, and enthrones on the very summit of Death, Life as a growing child.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
Since it must believe in some- thing besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
Here was the home he left, Tyrrhenian Corythus; now the palace of heaven, glittering with golden stars, enthrones and adds him to the ranged altars of the gods.'
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
A former nurse made history Wednesday when she was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the centuries-old mother church of the world's 85 million-strong Anglican community.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
While such preparatory drawings often focused on the figures alone, Filippino devotes equal attention to the architectural setting, in this case an open loggia on which the saint is enthroned and surrounded by angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Prolific sculptor Frederick William Sievers shows a seated Maury enthroned like Zeus before a globe held aloft by swarming figures representing the forces of air and water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
On the dais on the right side of the ballroom the King and Queen were enthroned, and at the King’s right hand was the King’s Huntress.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
As the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner once said, “Our country, be she right or wrong: a sentiment dethroning God and enthroning the devil.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2017
Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning his son.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides his plays and satirical romances he wrote the first modern history of philosophy, enthroning Reason after severe skirmishes with the Church and two emperors.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are enthroning Him in their imagination and are drawing Him to their hearts.
From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones
Of course, too, she has known many sorrows—who has not at seventy?—but she has consistently concealed pain and suffering instead of enthroning them.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
