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
Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nobody expected Herr Hitler to enthrone a Hohenzollern on the spot, but war nostalgia was pushed to the point of frenzy.
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
It's not so essential, but it crowns and enthrones its possessor and is life's rarest gift: pure charm.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
He enthrones the Madonna as Queen of Heaven, seated by the side of the risen Saviour, surrounded by the angelic hosts.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
To understand 446:21 God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and verifies Jesus' word: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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
Mullally will formally replace Welby in a ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral in January before being enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in March.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
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
But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
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
Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning his son.
From Time Magazine Archive
In literature, both prose and verse, the rationalistic and practical spirit showed itself in the enthroning above everything else of the principles of utility and common sense in substance and straightforward directness in style.
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
But this can furnish no ground for subjecting one, and enthroning the other.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
