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king

A king is the male leader of a country and whose son will probably lead the country. Following the death of James I, Charles I became King of England, in 1625 A powerful or influential person. Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media". One of the playing pieces in chess; it may move only once square per move in any direction, but cannot move into check (threat of attack). A playing card with the image of a king on it.

king

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom a competitor who holds a preeminent position (= baron) a very wealthy or powerful businessman an oil baron preeminence in a particular category or group or field the lion is the king of beasts (chess) the weakest but the most important piece one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward

King

United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925) United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)

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Simple sentences

The lion is the king of the jungle.
A king's daughter is a princess.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In chess, castling may only be carried out when both the king and the involved rook have not been moved, all the squares between them are free and not dominated by any opposing piece and the king is not in check and would not be put in check by castling.
Does the Netherlands have a king?
When I grow up, I want to be a king.
The king was tired of his sycophants always praising him, so he sent them away.
The depravity of the king's deeds lead the people to believe he was nothing more than a tyrant that needed to be overthrown.
With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.
All the king's subjects, fearing his wrath, often acted quite servile.
There was a feeling of constraint in the room; no one dared to tell the king how foolish his decision was.
The king ordered that the prisoner should be set free.
The king went hunting this morning.
Long live the King!
The queen stood beside the king.
The knight swore an oath of allegiance to the king.
The king crushed his enemies.
The king imposed heavy taxes on the people.
A republic is a nation whose head is not a king or queen, but a president.
In the palace live the king and the queen.
The king turned out to be naked.
The king created him a peer.

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Henry V himself became King at the age of 26, and was dead from dysentery by 35 - a reminder, by the way, that most history is made by young people.
It was here in the Castle of St George in the hills above Lisbon that the newly crowned Portuguese King Manuel appointed da Gama to command a fleet of ships, to make discoveries and go in search of spices.
King manuel's orders to Vasco da Gama tell us something very important about the overseas spread of Western civilization.
When he and his fellow sailors rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, they weren't wondering, as the Chinese had, if they could find some exotic animals to take home to their king.
Unrepentant in his isolation, the emperor addressed a dismissive message to King George lll.
Like Lion King.
Well how did you like that, boys? A real Lion King send-off.
Africa. is nothing like The Lion King!
The king of pies.
And, he believes they are the king of pies.
Jared, the king of pies?
The astronomers are captured, bound and taken to the palace of the King of the Selenites.
On a splendid throne, surrounded by living stars, the Selenite king is seated.
President Barbenfouillis makes a dash for the King of the Selenites and lifting him like a feather throws him violently on the ground.
I wrote to Louis-Philippe, the king of France.
The king's son! That's rather flattering.
Go tell the king's son that I'm surrendering.
That was during King Louis-Philippe's reign.
He is both Emperor of the French and King of the Arabs.
The King sounds reasonable.
Don't forget he freed Abdelkader, and treated him like a king.
If the King keeps his word, our dignity is restored.
Napoleon III came to Algeria twice to proclaim himself King of the Arabs.
During the reign of king Johan III a bitterly cold winter swept over Sweden, the likes of which had never been seen in living memory.
The king discovered a conspiracy among his Scottish mercenary troops.
I am not a king.
Then I will be prince, king, god!
Crown the king!
I'm the King.
I'm the King of Gondoland.
They're sort of the prom king and queen, so to speak, of freshman year.
But for a King to have an engagement with a North Korean Officer, what decency is there?
We have Gwanggaeto the Great and King Jangsu.
That is the King.
This is the gift sent by King Lee Jae Ha of the Republic of Korea.
King Lee Jae Ha took the lead in joining the WOC.
It is said that he personally came to see the former King.
He was a King!
His Majesty, King Lee Jae Ha arrived in Japan at 1pm today.
Nice to meet you too. I am from now on, not a King of South Korea, but a Team Leader of the joint South and the North Korea team.
Within the next month, she will replace King Lee Jae Ha and carry out associate work.

News and current affairs

Visionaries, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, may inspire a demand for justice.
The King of Spain provided stability and continuity after the end of Franco's dictatorship.
Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler in place of his incapacitated half-brother King Fahd, is keen to be seen as a champion of reform.
Like the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in his Canterbury Cathedral many centuries ago, the crime was committed in the clear belief that it would please the king.
For the key audience for this meeting of Muslim king and Roman Catholic Pontiff was not their followers, but another conservative leader, President George W. Bush.
That such a meeting took place is a sign that both Pope and King believed that there was something to achieve.
Indeed, Abdullah, who believes himself to be the paramount leader of the Muslim world, is the first Saudi king to initiate a meeting with a leader of the Christian faith.
The King, like Metternich and the Austrian Kaisers, understands de Tocqueville's dictum that the most dangerous moment for a regime is when it starts to reform.
Having begun, ever so carefully, to politically open his country, the King knows that he needs regional peace and a lowering of Islamic holy rage.
The outgoing leadership generation - that of Arafat, King Hussein or Hafiz al-Assad, King Fahd and President Mubarak - was born before 1935 and has determined events in the Middle East since the 1970's.
This is the generation of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, Jordan's King Abdullah and Morocco's King Muhammad VI.
The political generation of Bashar al-Assad, King Abdullah, and Gamal Mubarak - son of Egypt's ailing president - forms a less coherent picture than that of the outgoing leadership.
Moreover, secular spiritual leaders like Gandhi, Schweitzer, and King have vanished, annihilated it seems by our new fetishes--success, expediency, gain, and special interests.
Like King Lear after he lost his kingdom, there is nothing France can do about its lost influence but rage impotently.
Led by a group of technocrats surrounding the young King Mohammed VI, a reform process - including political liberalization - has begun in earnest, even if the results still seem modest.
Like the Ottoman Empire's fragmentation in 1922 or Nasser's overthrow of King Farouk's regime in 1952, the current transformation, too, must be shaped.
Nobel laureates such as Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, and Aung San Suu Kyi are but a few of the many examples that the Nobel Committee has recognized in previous years.
More would not accept the king's assertion of supremacy over the church.

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