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
Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"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 Fire-god enthrones with himself the friend that he loves.
From Simon Magus by George Robert Stow Mead
There is a pitch of intensity, though, which, if any emotion reach it, enthrones that one as alone effective and sweeps its antagonists and all their inhibitions away.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
He arrays himself as it were in his victory, enthrones himself in his foolishness, triumphs in his senseless twaddling.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
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
Channel 4 News said Bishop John, who was enthroned Bishop of Liverpool in 2023, was interviewed voluntarily under caution by police in March last year.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 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
Yet Laurence Stanninghame, gazing upon him, recognized a natural dignity—nay, a majesty enthroning this nearly naked savage such as he had never seen quite equalled in the aspect or deportment of any other living man.
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
Consecration involves the "glorifying" of Christ, the "enthroning" Him, the crowning of Jesus "Lord of all" in our own heart and life.
From The Spirit-Filled Life by John MacNeil
