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"dynastic" Definitions
  1. connected with a series of leaders of a country who all belong to the same family

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Altamont has by now acquired the kind of dynastic weight
The dynastic succession is a joke to the outside world.
The right to sell was both racially discriminatory and dynastic.
In dynastic Egypt, pharaohs defaced or repurposed images of predecessors.
"It's the dynastic plan," he says and that is apparently that.
But his foes slammed PML-N's plans as dynastic and undemocratic.
Hinkie wanted annual title contention, with dynastic talent leading the way.
Some complaints from the Kushner camp certainly ring with dynastic alarm.
Trump is also a rich kid who inherited a dynastic fortune.
Generally, civil and foreign wars and dynastic succession dominated the agenda.
Clearly, the Patriots' dynastic romp through the N.F.L. was over. Right?
This is competitive junior college cheerleading at the dynastic Navarro College.
Is this what the wars of dynastic succession boil down to?
Her untrustworthiness and unsavory dynastic ambitions were called out big time.
The Bush campaign has struggled with how to handle the dynastic clan.
And then snag title No. 4 to cement themselves as indisputably dynastic.
" Article 370, he said, had caused "separatism, terrorism, dynastic politics and corruption.
Still, the dynastic strain seems a bit stronger on the Republican side.
Again, somebody who has been trained, who has come through a dynastic situation.
Maybe the cycle of mad kings and dynastic power grabs is nearly over.
He had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic rule of North Korea.
He has also talked more openly and comfortably about his dynastic political family.
Family offices, a bastion of dynastic wealth, aren't exactly known for their transparency.
Dynastic rule and the creation of a great new American institution are in.
The once-dynastic Cowboys have not been to a Super Bowl in two decades.
Kim had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated state.
The earth moved, overturning more than three decades of almost dynastic, political-insider rule.
Freshman Senator Barack Obama offered a stark departure from George W. Bush's dynastic presidency.
A mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations.
It was all brutal dynastic warfare and recessive genes and feuding families (her husband reigned for just six months, in 1762, before dying in murky circumstances), with a single crucial exception: Catherine had genuinely altruistic motives to go along with her dynastic ambitions.
Fair warning: Squash in Egypt could be in the early phase of its dynastic age.
But the general is approaching 80, and many in le pouvoir oppose a dynastic succession.
And they spare their countries the spectacle of dynastic politics, which can lead to mediocrity.
Nevertheless, the company is firm in its commitment to eschewing a dynastic future for Facebook.
Three wealthy dynastic families – the Waltons, Kochs and Mars clans – together hold over $348 billion.
They chose a change from the dynastic regime that has ruled our country since 1967.
"Dynastic wealth, the enemy of a meritocracy, is on the rise," Buffett said in 2007.
"Dynastic wealth is here to stay," he said, "and people don't want to admit it."
Dynastic runs are not common because a lot of things can get in the way.
She evicted Ms Le Pen in a dynastic coup, ejecting her coterie of anti-euro advisers.
This dynastic situation, the 34-year-old has more experience with these matters than Donald Trump.
He had been known to speak out publicly against his family's dynastic control of North Korea.
This marked the first time a Saudi monarch had officially tried a dynastic transfer of power.
Dynastic wealth, which has been bemoaned by Warren Buffett, may be one of the reasons why.
"Kapoor & Sons — Since 1921" isn't about the dynastic family of Hindi movie directors, actors and producers.
As a result, wealthy families may find it much easier to amass dynastic levels of wealth.
It established a dynastic dictatorship — a far cry from the republican system that allegedly exists today.
He was a journalist and civic leader who opposed the dynastic dictatorship of Nicaragua's Somoza family.
Kim had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea, some South Korean officials have said.
He had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.
When Congress was in power, every dynastic birthday was celebrated on billboards and in fawning press notices.
"Game of Thrones" gets a remarkable number of big things right about the nature of dynastic societies.
But in office, Mr Trudeau has invited populist scorn, only partly because of his dynastic leg-up.
"I don't believe in dynastic wealth," he once famously quoted in agreeance with his friend Bill Gates.
At the start of 2015, investors probably anticipated a dynastic clash between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Collier, who often wrote with David Horowitz, was well regarded as a biographer of dynastic families.
We are not the result of historic accident or the reflection of some past monarchic, dynastic evolution.
He had, however, spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the reclusive, nuclear-armed nation.
In the North's dynastic system, her blood ties with Mr. Kim give her unmatched access and influence.
The Penguins, amid a run at a dynasty, had grabbed a record held by another dynastic team.
There is great reassurance and comfort in the dynastic stability, particularly juxtaposed to a shifting volatile world.
Pyongyang, with its totalitarian, dynastic Kim regime, has bedeviled American presidents, both Democratic and Republican, for decades.
The unholy matrimony of dynastic totalitarian control and regime-sanctioned commercial activity breeds corruption, oppression and abuse.
The summit alone gave North Korea and its dictator a prize that had eluded his dynastic predecessors.
Senator Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the party, introduced a bill to raise taxes on dynastic heirs.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
This was still a huge step forward from dynastic monarchy, but it was not a place to stop.
In a patrician, dynastic family such as the Bushes, this created no small public relations counterpart and advantage.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed nation.
The first tactic was to attempt a dynastic classical conservative resurgence in the form of former Florida Gov.
George W. Bush was a dynastic politician who was attended to by a retinue of faithful family retainers.
I am shedding old habits, jettisoning the underdoggery and romance of my childhood, learning to love dynastic rule.
And, you need heirs for the type of dynastic rule our heroes have been fighting for over eight seasons.
Two clay cones are inscribed with royal inscriptions from the Early Dynastic Lagash II periods (mid-third millennium BCE).
Are they in a dynastic league of their own, much like the 72-10 Chicago Bulls of 1995-96?
Scholars have found only a smattering of examples of ones made during the country's 2,000 years of dynastic rule.
"Game of Thrones" is compelling precisely because it recognises that dynastic struggles have often taken precedence over class struggles.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.
Trump and Kim are both examples of dynastic politics, which might explain why they can get along so well.
It passed through the ownership of several notable families, including the dynastic O'Neills, relations of the Irish high kings.
Is there not another reason the dynastic dueling, the catfight with Mary, Queen of Scots, have assumed center stage?
With that dynastic transition currently in progress, the Spurs need Aldridge as much as any team needs its superstars.
We are, Piketty suggested, returning to the kind of dynastic, "patrimonial" capitalism that prevailed in the late 19th century.
I did a deep dive on the media landscape in general, but also on a number of dynastic families.
His strategy stymies Mr. Kim's plans to improve the economy and strengthen the legitimacy of his family's dynastic rule.
He later spoke out against his family's dynastic leadership and said his half brother's reign was doomed to fail.
The return from exile of Charles II spurred a determined campaign to reaffirm dynastic solidity with art and splendor.
The dynastic regime led by the 33-year-old Kim also detailed how the missile would travel over Japan.
Portly and gregarious, Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated state.
Kim had spoken out publicly in the past against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
"Of course, it is a one-party system, but dynastic features of its regime are more important to consider."
The Gulf States' rulers see the group, whose political ideology challenges the principle of dynastic rule, as a security threat.
Essebsi denied dynastic manoeuvring, saying his son had the right to practise politics and that he could not dismiss him.
Essebsi denied dynastic maneuvering, saying his son had the right to practise politics and that he could not dismiss him.
The meeting's main purpose was to formalise the party's graduation from a traditional Marxist-Leninist dictatorship to a dynastic one.
The best president of the 20th century, Franklin Roosevelt, was a product of dynastic family wealth, as was John Kennedy.
It's found on pre-Dynastic Egyptian mummies and on living bodies in Africa, Asia and the Americas throughout the centuries.
But the Raptors, who are not considered rivals, were uniquely palatable: Gasol was not exactly bound for a dynastic power.
Can the Warriors, as they leave Oracle behind after 47 years, stay at a level commensurate with dynastic ticket prices?
Mr Bolloré's dynastic industrial ambitions, admired in French business circles, were soon paired with stockmarket raids à l'américaine, which were not.
In South Asia, women have historically come into power through dynastic succession, or in the aftermath of assassinations or coups d'etat.
Despite their disagreements, they're all allied against the "families," a handful of dynastic corporations who rule the city's easily pacified masses.
This is one reason these companies tend to follow the practice of dynastic succession, which solves one problem but creates others.
Thanks to him, we know a great deal about the complex political, military, dynastic, and religious reasons for the Jewish defeat.
US inequality is only getting worse, and the 'dynastic wealth' bemoaned by Warren Buffett may be one of the reasons why
The war never officially ended, and the North has been ruled by the Kim family under a dynastic dictatorship ever since.
Luring him to San Antonio was a franchise-saving move, or at least one designed to smooth the coming dynastic transition.
The four-time Stanley Cup champion Denis Potvin who captained the New York Islanders during their dynastic run in the 80s.
Nearly half the women contesting seats in the current election are dynastic candidates, according to initial data from the Trivedi center.
Michael's own successful acting career in the 1980s and '90s further established his father as a kind of dynastic Hollywood legend.
Kim Jong Un honored his father by promptly proving he was a model student in the fundamentals of Dynastic Dictatorship 101.
Her dynastic ambition helped secure a legacy for her family by jockeying her grandson James VI of Scotland to the throne.
Despite receiving 5m tourists each year, Chamonix has only a small permanent population and its official positions are dynastic in nature.
North Korea, however, has shown little appetite for surrendering nuclear weapons it considers vital to the survival of Kim's dynastic rule.
The main story of the Mahabharata, on which Battlefield is based, concerns a war between two sides of a dynastic family.
North Korea, though, has shown little appetite for surrendering nuclear weapons it considers vital to the survival of Kim's dynastic rule.
Others see him as just the latest manifestation of the old dynastic establishment that got Greece into trouble in the first place.
Recent wealthy presidents — the Bushes, John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt — have been essentially rich kids who inherited dynastic fortunes that they invested passively.
She, and the dynastic political privilege that her family has come to embody, represents everything that Americans hate most about Washington elites.
The wealthy are approaching inheritances differently to teach their kids the value of hard work and prevent the cycle of dynastic wealth.
Given his children's youth, Mr. Kim may have promoted his sister to guarantee dynastic continuity should he unexpectedly be unable to govern.
Its news is less world-altering than narrowly dynastic, far less cosmic than one would want such hard-carried secrets to be.
Throughout the first season of "Succession," Siobhan acted as something of a "floater" in the dynastic struggle going on between her siblings.
The post-Communist, postindustrial, kleptocratic dynastic regime of North Korea may become the crown jewel of the new axis-of-tyranny ideology.
Opposition politicians have slammed Nawaz's plans as dynastic, with opposition party leader Imran Khan decrying Pakistani politics as a "form of monarchy".
It's all fun and games until dynastic conflict pretty much destroys Rome and some poor saps have to mop up the blood.
It's all fun and games until dynastic conflict pretty much destroys Rome, and some poor saps have to mop up the blood.
In 22010 it was merged by dynastic marriage into the Kingdom of Aragon, and in 22005, under Ferdinand and Isabella, into Habsburg Spain.
She's effectively an incumbent with dynastic baggage facing an outsider candidate in Trump who built a campaign on voter mistrust of establishment politicians.
The candidate pool is still largely comprised of super PAC-powered establishment figures, some of whom have a dynastic leg-up, to boot.
Then in June this year they scooped three of the island's four constituencies in the national legislature, displacing representatives of ancient dynastic families.
I'd argue this is a more critical and more responsive message than one that scolds Democrats for nominating a dynastic, uncharismatic standard-bearer.
They don't believe that compassion was once a state policy in China's dynastic past that included vegetarianism and mercy release of captive animals.
The PUK and the Erbil-based Barzani clan's KDP together form a dynastic duopoly predicated on patronage in the regions they respectively control.
Virtually every chief rabbi in the Modzitz dynastic line composed music, and Rabbi Taub was said to have written a thousand religious melodies.
Several siblings appear on the list, including the heirs of the Mars candy and Walmart fortunes, proving the endurance of American dynastic wealth.
There's lots of families, dynastic lines (my dad is a plumbing lifer), and there is something eternally real and necessary about the product.
Harrison Barnes is the Golden State Warriors' analogue for the near-dynastic Heat's browbeaten Mario Chalmers, or the late Lakers' decrepit Derek Fisher.
More than half of billionaires are self-made, either through business or successful investments, but of course there are dynastic families as well.
Does that mean we should tolerate the brutal, dystopian conditions it imposes on its employees, or the dynastic wealth hoarding of its founder?
Shiv, as she is known to family and friends, is the youngest Roy child and the only daughter in the dynastic media family.
In fact, if there is one theme in his reign and in the several centuries of dynastic rule that followed, it's this: appropriation.
Why it matters: The dynastic heir — who first won election as a moderate, the AP notes — is portraying his campaign on generational terms.
Mr. Mahathir's advanced age is an asset: His term would presumably be short, forcing turnover in a country long dominated by dynastic politics.
In order for Lee's family to ensure dynastic succession, they needed a complicated merger to be approved between Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T.
The two plans pursue different routes to essentially the same goal — raising revenue from the richest and deterring the accumulation of vast dynastic wealth.
A once-in-a-lifetime estate tax, or a more steeply progressive income tax alone, will not put a sufficient brake on dynastic wealth.
Condé Nast is developing a virtual reality series about a dynastic family with a special gene that gives them the power to become invisible.
Essebsi's backers dismiss claims they wanted to put his son in a position of power through a dynastic handover of control of the party.
In a country where dynastic rivalries really matter, that was a highly significant move -- and not least because of bin Salman's youth and inexperience.
And the Trump presidency with its insidious dynastic tendencies suggest crises ahead, maybe at home, maybe in the world; maybe not now, but soon.
Buffett's decision might stem from his views on dynastic wealth, or the pattern of families passing money down from one generation to the next.
After that, in 1998, came the dynastic patriarch Joseph Estrada, who was deposed by protests during his impeachment trial by the Senate in 2001.
Kim Jong-un's promotion of his younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, above right, could guarantee dynastic continuity should he unexpectedly be unable to govern.
Since Shokosai I's time, basketry has tended to be dynastic, usually along the male line, since the craft traditionally involves cutting your own bamboo.
"Granting dynastic control in response to implicit threats from a controlling shareholder is a breach of the board's fiduciary duty of loyalty," CalPERS said.
Exaggerating American hostility and creating a sense of empowerment through nuclear weapons has become a hallmark of state propaganda legitimizing Mr. Kim's dynastic rule.
Those seeking a democratic future were dismayed to see Mubarak making apparent moves to groom his businessman son, Gamal Mubarak, for a dynastic succession.
Netflix is putting its spin on Shakespeare's dynastic series of war, succession, and a reluctant king with its new Timothée Chalamet movie The King.
China is believed to be the only country that buys North Korean coal, which is the biggest export earner for the dynastic communist dictatorship.
Another reason the Great Famine has been passed over is that its origins seemed so prosaic, compared with the dynastic struggles of the time.
The reasons for a book being banned in the modern period were not different from the reasons for the same during the dynastic eras.
If history, in his telling, has finally shifted his way, however, any sense of triumphalism is tempered by the dynastic fall-out with his daughter.
So, for the next few days, VICE Sports will take a look at every team that's conceivably in line to end the dynastic Warriors vs.
Qatar's neighbors have demanded it end support for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, seen by Gulf countries as a threat to their dynastic rule.
One is that the dynastic principle eliminates the difference between the public and private realms, a difference that is fundamental to democratic and meritocratic societies.
But Asian systems are changing with the times, debunking the argument that Asian women have been elected exclusively due to dynastic rule and family inheritance.
It's also one of the scariest developments heading into the 2017-18 season and, for Golden State, quite possibly what slows down their dynastic run.
The most overtly prequel-y prequel idea on this list provides the setup for all of the dynastic drama currently unfolding on Game of Thrones.
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance, a think tank, found that roughly 80 percent of the 229 congressional seats were controlled by dynastic politicians.
This would achieve their goal of re-channeling government benefits from the working poor, who require safety net assistance, to oligarchic holders of dynastic wealth.
"Dynastic wealth, the enemy of a meritocracy, is on the rise," Buffett said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing about the federal estate tax 2007.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated state and was estranged from the young North Korean leader.
I don't think dynastic systems with huge sums of wealth – and bear in mind, the wealthy are so much wealthier now than 25 years ago.
Ruled by new, dynastic political elites who appropriated much of their country's post-independence wealth, with little trickling down to the mass of the population.
In the past, Kim has eliminated officials or even family members he considers to be out of line or a threat to the dynastic regime.
I try to think of it in terms of weariness with Washington and with D.C. insiders, the Clintons in particular, and dynastic democracy in general.
This would mean that not only are estates not taxed but that much of capital gains could permanently escape taxation, substantially increasing dynastic wealth accumulation.
"None of the political parties have any credible claim to Gandhi's moral legacy," he said, checking off the reasons — spectacular corruption, dynastic politics, religious division.
The new prime minister has said he would break the dynastic nature of Pakistani politics and promised to bring young, dynamic leadership to his government.
The political, dynastic, and religious machinations of this era should have provided ample material for a meaty exploration of the relationship between art and power.
Where once the market for wines that aged along glorious arcs was small, wealthy and dynastic, interest in wine today has become far more democratic.
Kim had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea, and his brother had issued orders for his execution, some South Korean officials have said.
Only the estates of the wealthiest of wealthy Americans pay this tax because so few Americans possess the dynastic wealth that the estate tax affects.
Jeb Bush mused on his father, brother, mother, and his path to the presidential candidacy, which is (puzzlingly) in equal parts dynastic inevitability and total failure.
Kim Jong Nam was not known to be actively seeking influence over his younger brother but had spoken out publicly against his family&aposs dynastic rule.
Some South Korean lawmakers said the North Korean regime had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who had been critical of his family's dynastic rule.
Last night, Iowans became the first Americans to consider the European-style dynastic, nationalist, and socialist options—along with those emerging from more recognizable American traditions.
Kim is acutely aware of the risks of his self-imposed isolation and the value of nuclear weapons for ensuring his dynastic regime security and survival.
His ring collection brings together the academic and mischievous sides of his character and encompasses every period from dynastic Egypt to the world of Hells Angels.
Some South Korean lawmakers said the North Korean regime had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who had been critical of his family's dynastic rule.
Is this — missing two starters through injury — how the Warriors' dynastic runs ends before next season's move from Oracle to the Chase Center in San Francisco?
It is a policy that evokes the dynastic Duvalier dictatorship in the mid-20th century, when "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" became international symbols of kleptocracy.
Such uncertainty weighs even heavier on the N.B.A. this June because the Warriors, for the first time in their dynastic run, aren't facing LeBron James's team.
Its keenest romantic impulse has less to do with Nick and Rachel's rather pedestrian love story than with the allure of endless luxury and dynastic authority.
China's courtship of Mr. Kushner, which has coincided with the marginalization of the State Department in the Trump administration, reflects a Chinese comfort with dynastic links.
She dressed the Sex Pistols, then supermodels, translating the rigor and shock value of punk music into reappropriated, dynastic tartan with safety pins, tulle and slogans.
But the office had a less publicized role: It worked to enable the Lee family to pull off the dynastic transfer of control over Samsung's management.
It comes with dynastic approval: their son, Sean Ono Lennon, plays guitar and sings the countermelody — "War is over/if you want it" — by Cyrus's side.
Some South Korean lawmakers said the North Korean regime had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who had been critical of his family's dynastic rule.
Though Kim Jong Nam was not an obvious political threat to his sibling, he may have been seen as a potential rival in the country's dynastic dictatorship.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel, "The Palace of Illusions", tells that epic's core plot of dynastic conflict from the feminist perspective of the resilient, much-married heroine, Draupadi.
An anti-corruption crusader, Khan spent years on the fringes deriding the influence of powerful dynastic families as a symptom of a dishonest and venal political system.
Last month Ramachandra Guha, a prominent historian, suggested that only Mr Kumar could save Congress, by joining it and displacing the dynastic leadership of the Gandhi family.
They exhale revenue and convinced one of the game's all-time greats to take a pay cut for the sake of their dynastic run's place in history.
Many Kazakhs suspect the transition to Tokayev is just a temporary step in a managed dynastic succession, though exactly how that would be engineered is still opaque.
Critics also accused him of seeking a dynastic handover to his son and failing to support a truth commission seeking justice for the victims of authoritarian rule.
"The new India is loath to (accept) dynastic principle and the family character of the Congress further diminishes its appeal," BJP spokesman G.V.L. Narasimha Rao told Reuters.
Myron Stout's paintings can look like some kind of goddess sculpture from pre-dynastic Greece that's been buried in the Mediterranean for one thousand years, and excavated.
She cannot transform the technicality into a win: the night belonged to Bernie Sanders and his socialists, whose strength continues to erode her aura of dynastic inevitability.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state, and he had also expressed fears for this safety.
"It's time for international partners and investors to recognize that Cambodia is a dictatorship and is likely to become a dynastic one," he said in an interview.
Mr. Trump, meanwhile, always seemed to hold Mr. Bush, and his dynastic family, in poor regard, attacking him from almost the first moment he entered the race.
China has long dynastic histories, and they took great records—they didn't have the taboos that we have, so they weren't secretive about writing this stuff down.
Three enormous empires — the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian — had folded within the last two years, sweeping away centuries of dynastic privilege, but leaving a gaping void.
That festival takes place in the elegant Ottoman-era palace of Beiteddine located in the Chouf mountains, where her husband Walid Jumblatt is a major dynastic political leader.
Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing's protection, had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of North Korea.
Rather, they signaled opposition to the move by the president's son, Hafedh Caïd Essebsi, to take over the party and try to create a dynastic transfer of power.
The Brotherhood has posed a big challenge to Arab rulers in the Middle East, where it has built a strong base opposed to the principle of dynastic rule.
"If efforts to extend the term of President Duterte through charter change fail, it's very likely that the Dutertes' Davao formula for dynastic succession will prevail," he said.
Those Magic overachieved all the way to the NBA Finals, where they faced the juggernaut Los Angeles Lakers, then in the second dynastic phase of the Kobe administration.
Yet it's also quite evident that the Warriors, no matter what they thought coming into these finals, will not unilaterally decide when or how this dynastic run ends.
The 36-year-old Ivanka has fallen far from the days when she tried to stage her father's inaugural to echo Camelot, perhaps with dynastic presidential dreams herself.
Kim had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea, and his brother Kim Jong Un had issued orders for his execution, some South Korean officials have said.
Riyadh fears the Brotherhood, whose Sunni Islamist doctrines challenge the Saudi principle of dynastic rule, has tried to build support inside the kingdom since the Arab Spring revolutions.
Mr. Khan has narrowed his own path to victory by saying that he would never form a coalition with the other leading parties, calling them corrupt and dynastic.
Kim had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea and his half-brother had issued a standing order for his execution, some South Korean lawmakers have said.
South Korean and U.S. officials have said the North Korean regime had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who had been critical of his family's dynastic rule.
South Korean and American officials have said the North Korean regime had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who had been critical of his family's dynastic rule.
South Korean and U.S. officials have said the North Korean authorities had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who had been critical of his family's dynastic rule.
And yet, seemingly without fail, some combination of the above is what every high-level, dynastic college football program ends up becoming after a certain amount of time.
The royal family's newest member will enjoy the title of princess – but, for dynastic reasons, she will not be a Princess of Belgium, the palace spokesman confirms to PEOPLE.
In 2015 Michael denied Nicholas Medforth-Mills, the son of his second daughter, his title and dynastic rights for allegedly fathering a child out of wedlock (he denies this).
They can also be cause for celebration if you're, say, the Boston Celtics: a team built to go on a dynastic run that hasn't defeated LeBron in eight years.
A candidate who was ridiculed for months as nothing more than a reality TV star with a Twitter account defeated the undisputed dynastic heir of the Democratic Party. Mrs.
The civil war started after President Bashar al-Assad's regime violently cracked down on peaceful protesters, and ordinary citizens took up arms to try to oust his dynastic regime.
The decision to put forward Sharif's wife is in keeping with Pakistan's tradition of dynastic politics and also indicates the former premier will likely remain involved behind the scenes.
The squabble revives old accusations that Qatar backs the Brotherhood, which is present across most of the Muslim world and whose political ideology challenges the principle of dynastic rule.
What is not only a dynastic but generational shift in leadership comes at a time when the lines of power throughout the region are being swiftly and dangerously redrawn.
The potential humanitarian, military and diplomatic cost of a war with the reclusive dynastic state has long been cited as the reason why it should and would never happen.
"Growing up, it was something we talked about casually in my family," Ms. Kong said in an interview before a recent performance of "Confucius" in this former dynastic capital.
He has managed to win the ultimate prize of a summit with an American President -- a step neither of his two dynastic predecessors managed without offering any major concessions.
In Radical circles it is alleged that the alleged anti-dynastic plot is only an invention of the Government in order to have a weapon against the Radical party.
Kim, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing's protection, had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.
The scale of Ferguson's achievements during his dynastic reign is underscored by United's failure under three managers to win the Premier League in the five years since his retirement.
He sold himself as a former tea seller with a tough reputation, a great administrator and India's only hope against a dynastic political party that had run its course.
The Ortegas have spent the past decade consolidating power, sidelining political opponents and destroying a system of checks and balances with the clear intent of establishing a dynastic dictatorship.
Flanked by five royal palaces from South Korea's dynastic past, it is also home to some of the country's main corporations and financial institutions, embassies, hotels and a concert hall.
After years of bloodshed, the Targaryens took control of Westeros and began their dynastic rule over the Seven Kingdoms, complete with Aegon sitting atop the Iron Throne in King's Landing.
Kim Jong Nam was known to spend a significant amount of his time outside North Korea and had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated state.
Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed nation.
Vadra's entry into full-time politics could give more ammunition to Modi who has positioned himself as the son of an ordinary tea-seller against the dynastic politics of Congress.
Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.
This can get lost amid the broadsides being delivered by the president and his Adult Son in sort of a dynastic #MeToo backlash, but it doesn't change the underlying facts.
And the two nations' recent clashes in trade, national security, and tech have made Americans fear China as much as a rogue nuclear power headed by a dynastic, autocratic leader.
The answers could only be family allegiance, personal gain, or plans — wildly optimistic plans, in light of the F.B.I. noose tightening around this White House — for a dynastic political career.
According to research from the University of Cambridge, the Afro comb dates back nearly 6,000 years to pre-Dynastic Egypt, but it wasn't until the 1970s that its visibility skyrocketed.
But others noted that her outfit looked quite American, reminiscent of the old mascot of a dynastic American football team currently making a run at its fifth Super Bowl ring.
And last month, the Togolese took to the streets, protesting President Faure Gnassingbe and demanding that presidential term limits be enacted to rid the country of 50-year dynastic rule.
But the museum also does something else with its dynastic wealth: it launders it, making it palatable for a public that may be unaware of the origins of Carnegie's fortune.
It might seem as if the public is weary of Bushes and Clintons and has turned against dynastic politics, but voters don't usually punish politicians for being members of political families.
But the advantages that dynastic candidates enjoy come at a cost: Those who end up seeking the presidency may discover that they lack the campaign skills of other credible contenders. Mrs.
Despite living in London and being engaged to a woman for the sake of the families' "dynastic plan," Logan attempted to win Rory back by whisking her away for a night.
He has been in exile for the last 15 years and has openly criticized the dynastic aspects of his family's leadership — saying he believed his brother's reign would end in failure.
Despite living in London and being engaged to a woman for the sake of the families' "dynastic plan," Logan attempts to win Rory back by whisking her away for a night.
In the dynastic world of Pakistani politics, that has prompted speculation Nawaz fears his daughter and presumed heir Maryam would lose out in a future succession battle to Shehbaz's son, Hamza.
North Korean citizens have few opportunities to learn about what happens outside their country's border, and Kim Jong Un, the country's dynastic dictator, makes Donald Trump's antics seem like seasoned statesmanship.
A pair of trade offers were on the table, giving Auerbach and the Celtics a chance to take apart their dynastic core and rebuild around a new group of rising stars.
Here's a closer look at how they and the rest of the wealthy dynastic families from the Forbes 400 built their wealth, ranked from lowest net worth to highest net worth.
Note that the Forbes 400 doesn't encompass all of America's wealthy dynastic families — some individual family members have less than the $2.1 billion in personal wealth needed to make the list.
It would fall somewhere in the low-energy tradition of Romney-Obama, perhaps with the added promise (threat?) of a dynastic rehash: another Clinton (Hillary) squaring off against another Bush (Jeb!).
"It may mean the succession is in progress and that it will be a dynastic one," said Nelson Bonavena, an economics lecturer at the Catholic University of Angola and political analyst.
But in their unpredictability and straining uncoachable youthfulness, the Thunder represent something like the opposite of the Spurs, who appear to be successfully negotiating an impossible dynastic succession in real time.
But in writing A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin (or as he's usually dubbed, GRRM) based his literary world very closely on the dynastic clashes of medieval Britain and Europe.
They also misjudged Mr. Kim, 303, who took control of the dynastic regime in late 2011 and made the weapons program more of a priority than his father or grandfather did.
They have also cast him as the epitome of political privilege, a person whose victory at the polls would only perpetuate the clubby, dynastic control of the nation's most powerful offices.
Kim Jong Nam, who was living in exile in Macau, had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea and his brother had ordered his execution, South Korean lawmakers have said.
In the era of the Chinese republic, a book advocating Marxism or Communism would be censored, but the 1949 Communist Revolution reversed that book's status just as a dynastic change did.
Nazarbayev's foe, fugitive banker and opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov who organized the protests, has accused the 78-year-old politician of planning a dynastic succession that would see his daughter succeed him.
Judiciously weighing every piece of evidence, Weir balances historical data with emotional speculation to illuminate the ferocious dynastic ambitions and will to power that earned her subject a place in the spotlight.
The victory was seen a defining moment in Indian politics as it seemed to user in an alternative to the existing political establishment populated with dynastic, wealthy and people with 'winnability quotients'.
The race is a dynastic affair: it pits the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, against Raila Odinga, the son of Oginga Odinga, Kenya's first vice-president.
The 13 demands are apparently aimed at dismantling Qatar's interventionist foreign policy which has incensed conservative Arab peers over its alleged support for Islamists they regard as threats to their dynastic rule.
Long the motivating power behind the realm's dynastic rulers, House Lannister is looking at a costly rupture after Cersei's mismanagement, with her brother/lover Jaime likely to be caught in the middle.
Since arriving as a one-note sadist in Season 3, this striving, legitimized former bastard has expanded to both embody the story's dynastic obsession and inflict some of its most flagrant abuses.
The presidency is weak under Haiti's current constitution as it was written in the wake of the dynastic dictatorships of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
The trilogy has been compared to George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, with brutal dynastic warfare playing out across the Moon, and McDonald is no less ruthless with his characters.
Kim Jong Nam, 46, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing's protection, had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.
Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing's protection, had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.
Kim Jong Nam, who lived in exile in Macau, had criticized his family's dynastic rule and his brother had issued a standing order for his execution, according to some South Korean lawmakers.
Sitting in this moldering restaurant in the middle of this backwater village on the outskirts of Kunming, Zhao Jie and I feel like dynastic royalty as we enjoy the tofu's rotten goodness.
Now they include voters simply wanting a change from the stultifying self-serving politicians of Pakistan's two dynastic powerhouses who are widely blamed for having driven the country into an economic hole.
U.S. and South Korean officials say the North Korean regime was behind the murder of Kim, who lived in exile in Macau and had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea.
While he is still relatively new to Afghan politics, the aura of his father's name adds weight to his words in a country where the habits of dynastic politics remain deeply ingrained.
At the same time, the dynastic Congress party, which led India for most of its history since independence from Britain, was collapsing, plagued by scandals and the absence of an inspiring leader.
"Game of Thrones" is broadly about the evolution from a dynastic, tribal world defined by cycles of violence and revenge toward a more humanistic, cooperative one equipped to confront big existential challenges.
The assassins, who are on trial, were hired by North Korean agents who analysts said were sent by Kim Jong-un to eliminate a potential threat to his dynastic grip on power.
Moana (MWAH-nah) is not only part of a dynastic line but also a girl off on an adventure in the company of a cute animal sidekick (a dimwitted chicken named Heihei).
Among the New York philanthropies with dynastic names and assets in the billions, one local charity with a nine-figure endowment has been doing its work almost invisibly — for half a century.
In 2014, Mr. Modi came to power after pillorizing Mr. Gandhi's dynastic Congress party, painting it as corrupt and offering himself and his Bharatiya Janata Party as the clean, corruption-free alternative.
He blogs at The Duck of Minerva and Lawyers, Guns and Money, and is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change.
And remarkably, even the most expansive list of potential 2020 presidential candidates on the Democratic side contains no dynastic politicians, now that Cuomo has been dropped from the Washington Post's long list.
Kim Jong Nam, who was living in exile in Macau, had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea and his brother had ordered his execution, according to some South Korean lawmakers.
If his daughter eventually follows him into power, it would be only the second successful dynastic succession in an ex-Soviet state, after Ilham Aliyev followed his father Heydar into power in Azerbaijan.
In 2011 Stanley Ho sued family members in a high-profile dynastic fight in which he sought to recover billions of assets after a share restructuring he said was done without his consent.
It also leaves Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party without its most important focus of attack on the Congress party — that it is dynastic and has the wrong type of leadership.
Otherwise, it stinks: a dynastic protagonist slays a fake threat and receives the admiration of literally everyone, which he uses to further his personal pursuit of a very shallow concept of world peace.
The prospect made American democracy seem stale and dynastic, rigged on behalf of a tiny political elite, whose members alone had the name recognition and deep pockets required to win its overpriced elections.
By the time he called the E.P.A., he was eighty, and long since unburdened of any personal or dynastic need to make money; according to Forbes , he is worth approximately seventeen billion dollars.
WARREN BUFFETT: I don't think-- I don't think-- a dynastic system with huge sums of wealth-- and bear in mind the wealthy are so much wealthier now than they were 25 years ago.
In 2011, Stanley Ho sued family members in a high-profile dynastic fight in which he sought to recover billions in assets after a share restructuring he said was done without his consent.
His time in the White House was spent in service to a "compassionate conservative" president who came to Washington from the establishment wing of the Republican Party and from a dynastic political family.
Fraser writes: Right-wing populism, both as a grassroots rebellion and as a strategic demarche captained by the dynastic heroes of a revived family capitalism, has its feet firmly planted in the past.
In that pre-dynastic iteration of the Patriots, Zolak was Drew Bledsoe's rowdy backup and the extra hand who ran the scout team for Belichick's defensive backs, impersonating the opposing quarterback in practices.
Perhaps the most expansive family novel of the last two years, C. E. Morgan's "The Sport of Kings" (2016), synthesizes the black epic of lost roots with the dynastic accrual of white property.
Even if Mr. Lee is not convicted, South Korea's new president, Moon Jae-in, has promised to take steps to weaken dynastic control over the conglomerates, or chaebol, that dominate the Korean economy.
The Chicago-Dallas matchup was intriguing as it featured former teammates on OpTic Gaming's dynastic Call of Duty team (Matthew "Formal" Piper, Seth "Scump" Abner, and Ian "Crimsix" Porter), who since parted ways.
But the Kurdistan Regional Government lacks the foundations of a democratic state — rule of law, free and fair elections, civil society and a legislature with real power to challenge a dynastic executive leadership.
Indeed, his presidential primary campaign against Hillary Clinton picked up steam in large part out of a fear of dynastic politics, of a Clinton or Bush returning to the White House once more.
Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in exile with his family in Macau under Chinese protection, had spoken publicly in the past against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
Kim Jong Nam, who has been living in exile with his family in Macau under Chinese protection, had spoken publicly in the past against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
Protests are rare in the oil-rich former Soviet republic which has become the focus of international attention after Nazarbayev's surprising resignation this week looked like the first step of a choreographed dynastic succession.
Saudi Arabia's dynastic leaders, who rule by fiat and strictly limit public dissent, have historically courted public opinion only via informal councils with tribal, religious and business leaders or citizens seeking to petition them.
"We got a long way to go to get to Golden State," James said of the dynastic Warriors, who have foiled James' championship hopes three of the past four years, including the last two.
Neither skater, for instance, wore pins commonly worn by North Koreans that depict Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un's grandfather and father, who preceded him as the country's dynastic rulers.
They urged voters to break the P.R.I.'s dynastic control as the only solution for ridding the state — and by extension, the nation — of its chronic corruption and impunity, and finally curbing the violence.
" Ms. Lim said that she was startled last year when the prime minister's sister "actually called him 'dishonorable' and accused him of 'dynastic' ambitions, as the Lees have generally been a very private family.
Formed and reformed through six centuries of feudal alliances, dynastic marriages, wars and Great Power bargains, the Hapsburg Empire was on its way to becoming a modern multinational state by the late 19th century.
The owners, Li Boru and Xue Wei, moved from China to New York to go to graduate school and wanted to open a restaurant that would evoke the aristocratic cooking of China's dynastic era.
There is an element of reinventing the wheel here, a sense that Oneida, in its crawl toward monogamy, dynastic families, and mercantile (and mercenary) capitalism, was simply reverting to something like a human mean.
If you want a tax system that leans more aggressively against dynastic wealth and high inequality, there are, in other words, tools that don't involve quite the risks and challenges of a wealth tax.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of North Korea, and had spent many years outside the reclusive state, traveling in Macau and Hong Kong as well as mainland China.
This dynastic rule has set up huge problems in Westeros since the beginning of Thrones, as the death of Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) left a vacuum open for the continent's current horrific state of affairs.
Facebook's leaders have accumulated dynastic wealth from mining the personal information of a billion Facebook users and then selling those users to the highest bidder — even when that bidder is actively seeking to undermine democracy.
That policy has reflected the clout generated by its vast natural gas and oil wealth but incensed conservative Arab peers over its alleged support for Islamists they regard as mortal threats to their dynastic rule.
Ties between Qatar and some of its GCC allies suffered an eight-month breakdown in 2014 over Qatar's alleged support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the political ideology of which challenges the principle of dynastic rule.
Kim, who is showing increasing strategic sophistication on the other hand, is likely to be sharply focused on the details since his nuclear arsenal is seen in Pyongyang as the guarantor of his dynastic rule.
He certainly had his excessive stretches — the endless torture of Theon comes to mind — but at his "best" Ramsay represented the sort of toxic, immoral behavior dynastic power structures can enable and at times reward.
The Canadiens, meanwhile, were accustomed to floating above whatever trends had absorbed the league's lesser franchises, bouncing from one dynastic run to the next—five Cup wins in the 1950s, five more in the 60s.
Ties between Qatar and some other Gulf Arab states suffered an eight-month breakdown in 2014 over Qatar's alleged support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the political ideology of which challenges the principle of dynastic rule.
For the dynastic Golden State Warriors — even after their three championships in the past four seasons — there can be no further promises after the Kevin Durant injury scare that shook the N.B.A. late Wednesday night.
Some Gulf states are wary of the Brotherhood's acceptance of the ballot box, a position that challenges the Gulf tradition of dynastic rule and offers an alternative interpretation of the role of Islam in politics.
The first nuclear test was conducted in 2006, and a Tuesday report from the Washington Post said the Defense Intelligence Agency believes the dynastic regime now has "up to 60 nuclear weapons" in its arsenal.
Paradox enjoyed unexpectedly popular strategy hit with 2012's Crusader Kings 2, a game whose focus on feudal and dynastic politics in the middle ages allowed it to reach beyond the strategy studio's usual audience.
Ties between Qatar and other Gulf Arab states suffered an eight-month breach in 2014 over Qatar's alleged support for the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group whose political ideology challenges the principle of dynastic rule.
But Kim Jong-nam never formally proposed to defect, according to South Korean officials, and he had told reporters that he had no interest in politics, although he also criticized the dynastic succession in Pyongyang.
The election of George Weah closed out a year of remarkable developments in the continent's democratic evolution from dynastic leaders forced to step down, to the emergence of judicial courage, if not true judicial independence.
Does Game of Thrones want us to root for [Dany and Jon] (because we kind of are) or to recognize how destructive it is to perpetuate the dynastic model that ended up destroying the Targaryen family?
The appointment was seen by some analysts as President dos Santos laying the ground for dynastic, family succession if he follows through on a declared intention to step down in 2018, a year after presidential elections.
A column carried on Tuesday by DPRK Today, one of the reclusive and dynastic state's mouthpieces, described Trump as a "wise politician" and the right choice for US voters in the November 8 US presidential election.
His success in the election ended decades of political dominance by two dynastic powerhouses, the PML-N of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif, and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), founded and led by the Bhutto family.
Clinton, a dynastic politician with such rigorous command of policy and procedure that she sounds like a pant-suited technical manual, will be squaring off with an outsider who is loud and arrives ready to fight.
First, dynastic-ruled North Korea is profoundly different than the layered bureaucratic communist Soviet Union in the post-Stalin years when the politburo and general secretary of the communist party were elected by the Central Committee.
Because Hillary Clinton, as a symbol of dynastic entitlement (albeit a female one), is such an easy target for an anti-establishment movement, she is particularly vulnerable to the forces that have produced Trump and Brexit.
She was introduced to him by one of his old friends in 1999, about five years after her bitter divorce from Eric Chamchoum, a Nigerian-born telecommunications executive who is part of a dynastic Lebanese family.
A new wave of American power metal (NWOAPM) greets the return of the dynastic Bush monarchy, but by the time he takes office, his low energy has become contagious, launching four long, sleepy years of chillwave.
Kim Jong Nam, who was living in exile in Macau, had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea and his brother had issued a standing order for his execution, according to some South Korean lawmakers.
Now we still aren't quite sure who's calling the shots in San Francisco, Blaine Gabbert is rumored to be starting, and the dynastic squad Jim Harbaugh built just a few years ago has been utterly dismantled.
Kim Jong Nam, who was living in exile in Macau, had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea and his brother had issued a standing order for his execution, some South Korean lawmakers have said.
Like Saudi Arabia, the UAE's conservative Sunni ruling family views the Brotherhood as an ideological competitor and sees its promotion of political activism, including support for elections, as a direct threat to its dynastic system of rule.
But he's seemingly resigned himself to go through with the marriage to Odette ("that's the dynastic plan," he says unenthusiastically), so Rory finally comes to her senses and calls it quits for good, and it's pretty heartbreaking.
South Korean and U.S. officials believe Kim was killed by agents from the North, possibly on orders from his half-brother because he had spoken out publicly about his family's dynastic control of the nuclear-armed nation.
Doha's independent-minded approach, including a dovish line on Iran and support for Islamist groups, in particular the Muslim Brotherhood, has incensed some of its neighbors who see political Islamism as a threat to their dynastic rule.
National Review editor Jonah Goldberg fulminated: FWIW, I think the North Korean flag is a piece of vile filth that stands for the dynastic rule of a racist cult that subjugates, tortures and enslaves it's own people.
Many wealthy American families, the Devos' chief among them, are using their considerable resources, political influence and media holdings to help rig the rules of the economy in order to protect and grow their own dynastic wealth.
SCENES FROM COURT LIFE OR THE WHIPPING BOY AND HIS PRINCE Sarah Ruhl's new political play looks at dynastic privilege through both the Stuart kings (Charles I and II) and the Bush brothers (Jeb and George W.).
Kim Jong Un's half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, who had publicly spoken out against the Kim family's dynastic control, was assassinated in dramatic fashion this year, while the ruler's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was executed in 2013.
Mr. Ortega and Ms. Murillo should now face the fact that any realistic, sustainable solution to this crisis must contemplate the end of their pretensions to establish another dynastic dictatorship like the one that murdered my grandfather.
By the time Callahan makes the case that charitable giving actually perpetuates dynastic influence more than simply leaving one's offspring a big pile of cash, many readers will be ready to throw up their hands in exasperation.
The 120 drawings, incised on three walls to form a mural that stretches 82 feet in length, were likely created as part of a significant funerary boat burial — an ancient Egyptian ritual dating to the Early Dynastic Period.
From the time I was a pre-teen until I was solidly into college, the Knicks were my obsession and they provided enough drama, enough talent, enough almosts — almost great, almost champions, almost dynastic — to justify my attention.
" He went on to explain how reducing the estate tax, a provision of the bill, makes it easier for the rich to amass greater wealth and pass it along to their family members, leading to a "dynastic system.
Bill McGlashan was at the forefront of attempts to quantify the social impact of investments, but I have yet to see an internal impact accounting that includes the consequences of funneling dynastic wealth to him and his family.
Black Panther isn't all that creative from a plot perspective, either — it's basically a Game of Thrones-style dynastic struggle — but it's still a refreshing change of pace; even when the narrative is familiar, it never feels formulaic.
The parallels to the present day are striking with Deschamps continuing to do without Karim Benzema, the star forward who has been an integral part of Real Madrid's dynastic run of four Champions League titles in five years.
He is careful to note that it was his choice, not a requirement — he turned down offers from McKinsey, the consulting group, and KKR, the investment firm, where he interned — but it had an air of dynastic inevitability.
"A dynastic system where you can pass vast wealth along to your children is not good for anyone; the next generation doesn't end up with the same incentive to work hard and contribute to the economy," Gates said.
After four seasons without a playoff victory, the haughty, dynastic Yankees have come to the realization that they must mix with the common folk if they are to persuade more fans to buy into this painful renewal program.
Turkey and Qatar have both provided support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt - a broad movement whose Islamist goals are anathema to Egypt's ex-military president, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and to many of the Gulf's dynastic rulers.
Most of the $118 million came early on, when Mr. Bush seemed like a more sure bet, able to harness his dynastic family's connections, as well as a deep Rolodex of donors, to position himself as a presumptive frontrunner.
Isabel dos Santos - said by Forbes magazine to be Africa's richest woman - insisted her appointment was everything to do with shaking up Sonangol and nothing to do with a dynastic dos Santos succession plan, as her father's opponents allege.
Kim Jong Nam, the older half-brother of the North Korean leader, was known to spend a significant amount of his time outside the country and had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated state.
Kim was not an obvious political threat to his estranged half brother, Kim Jong Un. But he may have been seen as a potential rival in North Korea's dynastic dictatorship, even though he had lived in exile for years.
Early in the novel, which parodies the dynastic histories that have been well-known in China for two millennia, the author makes plain that his fictitious township "replicated in miniature the pain and prosperity undergone by the nation itself".
Though Tunisia remained a democratic exception in a troubled region, critics accused Essebsi of attempting a dynastic handover, rowing back on post-revolution freedoms, and failing to support a truth commission seeking justice for the victims of authoritarian rule.
"I'm not an enthusiast for dynastic wealth, particularly when 6 billion others have much poorer hands than we do in life," he reportedly said at a 2006 event following his announcement to donate the vast majority of his fortune.
Imperator: Rome is the latest historical grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio, and takes as its subject the later years of the Roman Republic through its transformation into the Roman Empire under the rule of the dynastic Principate.
There is no escaping a sense of dynastic destiny, however, given that the current generation controlling The Times — principally Arthur Jr., the publisher and chairman, and his cousin Michael Golden, the vice chairman — is the fourth to do so.
Dynastic politics Although much of the shine has come off the BJP since 2014, Congress often comes under fire for its reliance on a single dynasty, and Modi has repeatedly ridiculed the party for keeping it in the family.
Saddled with a couple of unenviable veteran contracts and young players whose upsides are in question, Johnson and the Lakers have a long way to go before they can even dream of challenging the potentially dynastic Golden State Warriors.
U.S. and South Korean officials say the North Korean regime was behind the murder of Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in exile in Macau and had criticized his family's dynastic rule of North Korea in the past.
In the early 20th century, as the Qing Empire's demise brought a close to dynastic rule, leading intellectuals like Liang Qichao drew heavily on the American precedent to try to give purpose to a newly formed, modern Chinese identity.
Mr. Khan has positioned himself as a fighter against corruption, taking aim at the dynastic politics and nepotism of parties like the PML-N while maintaining a good relationship with the military, which he credits with protecting the country.
The Jews of Amsterdam in the 1640s could feel "simultaneously autonomous and yet integrated into the life of the Dutch Republic," because there was "no monolithic sense of 'Dutchness,'" religious or dynastic, against which Jews could be judged alien.
But this and other changes — eliminating the hodgepodge of generation-skipping trusts that also bypass estate taxes — are obvious fixes that would introduce a basic fairness to the system and curb the vast inequality that arises from dynastic wealth.
In the middle of the 15th century, the Courtly Household Cards, also produced in Upper Rhineland, adopted a dynastic theme, with functionaries of different ranks from king down to fool organized in suits emblematic of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and France.
Others were delighted Khan has broken the decades-long dominance of the two dynastic powerhouses, the outgoing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party of jailed former premier Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of the Bhutto family.
Nam had spent a lot of time outside the hermit kingdom in recent years, principally in Macau and China, and had openly criticized the dynastic aspects of his family's leadership — saying he believed his brother's reign would end in failure.
The tablets, primarily from the Ur III and Old Babylonian period (2100-1600 BCE), are mostly legal and administrative documents, but also include an important collection of Early Dynastic incantations and a bilingual religious text from the Neo-Babylonian period.
Kim Jong Nam, who was estranged from young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was known to spend a significant amount of his time outside North Korea and had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated state.
And for the ruling class, too, caught up in "the great game of dynastic advancement" that was played out with conspiracies, secret alliances and mortality dispensed in an infinitude of ways — by poison, exile, starvation, false accusations and arranged accidents.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who came to power in 1979, appointed his billionaire businesswoman daughter as head of Sonangol in June by presidential decree in a shake-up that cements his dynastic grip on power in the oil exporter.
The swapped roles of power and gender could create a tricky dynamic for the former president, partly relating to the trials and personalities surrounding the dynastic power couple, which has spent most of the last three decades in the public spotlight.
For centuries, the key unifying driver of allegiance and cohesion was Islam or the Muslim community, followed by loyalty to the dynastic ruler of the empire or caliphate, and finally, local loyalty, whether it was sectarian, tribal, regional or social.
Let's be honest here: it just feels right that the most popular entertainment in the world in 2017 should have an ending that gives us a small semblance of hope for the rule of law above the rule of dynastic dictatorships.
Kim Jong Un's half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, who had publicly spoken out against the family's dynastic control, was assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia in February, while the ruler's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was executed in 2013.
The idea that Kim would give up a nuclear arsenal his country has spent decades acquiring and that he sees as the guarantor of his dynastic rule always struck many people who have dealt with the North Koreans as farfetched.
Or maybe until just last week, the final days; an end-of-days marked by W.'s speech, marking the end of the last archetypal Yankee dynastic reign, that of Prescott Bush, his son H.W. and his grandsons W. and Jeb.
Having multiple lovers is a dynastic tradition — his great-grandfather King Rama V had more than 150 wives and consorts — but the prince's former partners have endured spiteful separations and the purged members of his entourage have died under suspicious circumstances.
I think this is a useful way of trying to understand why North Korea has been so successful and how they've managed to control their populace for so long, for so many decades, for three dynastic successions of father to son.
A kingdom occupying the northern half of the island of Great Britain from the 9th century, Scotland's monarch took the crown of England through dynastic succession in 1603 and in 1707 the two countries formed the state of Great Britain.
Mr. Choe and Vice Marshal Hwang have survived a series of often bloody purges that Mr. Kim has engineered to consolidate his authority since taking over the dynastic regime after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in 2011.
Mr. Kim's ideological lineage can be traced back to Japan's postwar prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, South Korea's military dictator Park Chung-hee, Taiwan's dynastic heir Chiang Ching-kuo and, above all, Deng Xiaoping in China.
The novel tells the intertwined stories of three families — one white, one black and one the product of an interracial marriage — making jumps in time to tell the various dynastic tales until the three clans merge into one near the end.
More thematically, the show that has been broadly about a society's transition from murderous, dysfunctional dynastic rule and entitlement politics to a more collectivist model consummated that concept, killing off yet another conquering monarch and replacing her with an elected king.
Yet Coker is notable precisely because he is not: while Alabama hardly wins in spite of him, he is nowhere close to the catalyst for what could be the Crimson Tide's fourth title in seven seasons, an inarguably dynastic run.
The big change this season, apart from the drop in percentage made, from 36.7 to 32.3, is that for the first time since Golden State began its dynastic run, Curry is shooting more off the catch than off the dribble.
Ms. Lightfoot's rise was unexpected only weeks ago, when 333 other candidates were vying to run the nation's third-largest city, many of them far better known — with decades of experience in Chicago politics and with dynastic names like Daley.
I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.
Beginning with "God Is an Englishman," it follows Adam Swann from his days as a young soldier in the British Army in 1857 through his marriage to steadfast, determined Henrietta, and their shaping of a dynastic business (Swann-on-Wheels!).
Questions about Ms. Trump's ambiguous West Wing arrangement took center stage during the Berlin trip to attend the G-20 women's conference, where German political and media figures questioned whether her ascent was a product of merit or dynastic privilege.
Abrams, who also directed "The Force Awakens," the first chapter in this trilogy, suppresses that potential, reaffirming the historic "Star Wars" commitment to dynastic bloodlines and messianic mumbo-jumbo, even as he ends on a note of huggy, smiley pseudo-populism.
When Houston slumped to fourth in the West late in the regular season, its tumble almost instantly begot a theory that it might be better for the Rockets to face the dynastic Warriors in the second round — mostly owing to freshness.
Regarding Azuza's meritocratic claims, she said that Ibadi custom holds that leaders be chosen for their knowledge and piety without any regard to race or lineage, but noted that many of their imams were in fact elected along dynastic lines.
Though Hun Sen appears to have dynastic ambitions on his mind, and is expected to promote his three sons to higher political offices following his certain victory this Sunday, it's not necessarily time to sound the death knell on Cambodia's democratic ambitions.
ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan took a step closer to a carefully choreographed dynastic succession on Wednesday as the daughter of its long-serving ruler was named to a post that put her in line for the presidency a day after her father stepped down.
The meaning of the dynastic squabbles of the Ptolemys, the tension between the African and Greek cultures that lived alongside each other, the significance of Rome's arrival on the scene… all of that was played out and explained via the game's story.
But if it happens, and Saric is able to transform into an exemplary complement to Simmons and Embiid, the 76ers could ultimately string together a dynastic run of their own, as pioneers of the NBA's next frontier—staying versatile without forfeiting size.
If heaven's mandate comes from controlling the waters, might the demands of hydrology, including the need for considerable resources and legions of workers for flood control and irrigation, have created the highly centralised, authoritarian states of Chinese dynastic rule, the Communists' one included?
The description of Logan Roy, the architect behind the fifth-largest media company in the world and a "pal to prime ministers," certainly possesses a Murdoch-ian vibe, although the producers say they drew inspiration from a number of different dynastic enterprises.
An alternative future without the Republic of Korea, or with South Koreans living in complete submission to the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, fantastical as it may sound, always has been the one non-negotiable proposition for the North's dynastic dictatorship.
Not that the Yankees were remotely dynastic during Granderson's time lofting fly balls into the Yankee Stadium right-field jet stream, but they did make the postseason in three of those four years and Granderson twice played in the American League Championship Series.
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Raptors took down the dynastic Golden State Warriors to win Canada's first NBA title but now face perhaps their toughest battle yet as they try to convince Kawhi Leonard to have a long-term future with the team.
In addition to her A-list contacts in the news media, Ms. Hicks has a track record of working well with heirs to dynastic families — a desirable trait for the Murdoch clan, whose financial and personal lives play out in the public eye.
Kim Jong-nam, who had criticized the dynastic succession in North Korea but had professed no interest in politics, was ambushed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia by two women who smeared his face with VX. The women were arrested.
Working out of his Long Island home, tape recorder in hand, he drove to the Borough Park and Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn, which have large Hasidic populations, and recorded the mostly unnotated music of the Modzitz, Lubavitch, Bobov and Ger dynastic groups.
Along the way, he dragged the Warriors through what may go down as the worst 72 hours of their dynastic run, given the embarrassing suspension of the Warriors' minority investor Mark Stevens for shoving Toronto's Kyle Lowry amid back-to-back home defeats.
In many cases, like the Holy Roman Empire, the nature of the collapse is that one monarch uses his authority to ensure the election of his son, and then after a few rounds of this, the elective monarchy becomes a dynastic one.
In North Korea's dynastic system, which upholds the Kim family's "bloodline" as a sacred leadership qualification, Ms. Kim wields a singular clout that cannot be matched by any nonrelative members of the elite, regardless of their official titles, according to North Korea analysts.
"A dynastic system where you can pass vast wealth along to your children is not good for anyone; the next generation doesn't end up with the same incentive to work hard and contribute to the economy," Gates writes, defending higher estate taxes.
If it holds — if Liz Cheney is now the exception rather than the rule — it's possible that something we all saw as a problem just a few years ago has been solved, or at least that the dynastic clock has been reset.
Far from simply emboldening the sitter and recording for the purpose of emphasising dynastic security, he imbued depictions of Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria — he of slight stature and impenetrably aloof character, she of famously protruding teeth — with warmth and humanity, even vulnerability.
And the self-styled "Prince Paul of Romania" has repeatedly tried to take Michael to court over his dynastic rights as grandson of Carol II from a morganatic marriage (ie, to a woman of lower social rank, preventing the passing on of a title).
This Sunday, while the harried mothers of Massachusetts and Rhode Island stir crab dip, the president will be pulling for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's dynastic team to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51 (sorry, those Roman numerals are too fatuous for me).
Beyond assembling Chicago's championship rosters, his basketball reputation was built on the fact that hired and promoted Tex Winter, the triangle offense expert, and later Jackson, who became the Zen Master (and noted triangle aficionado) of dynastic championship teams in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Mr. Kim's grandfather, President Kim Il-sung, founded the North's government after the Korean Peninsula was liberated from Japanese colonial rule at the end of World War II. Mr. Kim took over the dynastic rule after his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011.
Those were notable achievements but many Western observers didn't note these women weren't breaking a glass ceiling but were dynastic politicians who had nothing in common with Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who became the British Prime Minister who helped end the Cold War.
Lowy, 87, a Holocaust survivor-turned-knighted property tycoon, will retire from Westfield, and his sons Steven and Peter will retire as co-CEOs, marking a dynastic end to their Westfield rule in the wake of a proposed $24.7 billion sale to France's Unibail-Rodamco.
"We call for disqualification and removal of Hillary Clinton from the presidential ballot as dynastic succession of the Clinton family in American politics breaches the core democratic principles laid out by our Founding Fathers," read one Facebook post that was promoting a White House petition.
If there is an assumption in today's club game that real, lasting glory is pre-ordained, dynastic, something bought up in a timeshare by a revolving cast of the same four or five superpowers, Russia 2018 has seemed on a quest to embarrass that stasis.
Many Indians of different political beliefs have been so fed up with the corruption and dynastic politics of the leading opposition party, the Indian National Congress, that they have thrown their support behind Mr. Modi, hoping he spends his energies on improving the economy.
Because there's little policy daylight among the Democrats, issues of race, gender, age and dynastic politics have all received more attention and discussion in the primary race, as candidates have attempted to use their personal identity and legislative experience to differentiate themselves from their opponents.
" When "Succession" premiered, writer-creator Jesse Armstrong conceded that the concept was "certainly informed by my knowledge of the Murdoch family," but stressed that he drew inspiration from multiple sources, telling CNN that when it comes to media, "Dynastic families are all around us.
On Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the law change would bring stability and end "separatism, terrorism, dynastic politics and corruption" in Jammu and Kashmir, even as the United Nations warned against taking steps that "could affect the status" of the disputed region.
Yet Mr. Kim is also credited with loosening state controls on the economy and engineering modest growth, and regaining some of the public confidence that the dynastic regime enjoyed under his grandfather and lost under his father, whose rule is remembered for a devastating famine.
There is a detailed chronology, accompanied by charts of dynastic structures and a 40-strong list of dramatis personae, but it's difficult to ignore the fact that popular history works best when it keeps us turning the pages, not flipping back to find our bearings.
In announcing his tax proposal, he quoted Teddy Roosevelt's warning about the dangers of a small class of enormously wealthy individuals "whose chief object is to hold and increase their power," and underscored the moral and political imperative to put some limits on dynastic wealth.
Just as Joseph Kennedy used bad money to pave the path to dynastic legitimacy, says Gilberto, the Calis will be able to retain their fortune for the modest cost of surrendering labs, safe houses and trafficking routes, and in return for serving minimal prison sentences.
Hard as it is to remember through the fog of the Trump era, about three years ago, dynastic politics seemed like a dominant theme and one of the biggest dangers to the "any kid can grow up to be president" myth of American democracy.
U.S. and South Korean officials say the murder was orchestrated by the North's leader, Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed nation.
The unspoken assertion was both obvious and deft — that while she may be an actress she is, in fact, the real thing; it is her opponent, with his back-room dealing and corporate coddling and dynastic affiliations, who stands as the role-player and the phony.
So when Mr. Armstrong expanded his original idea to use the whole world of dynastic families and consolidated wealth and power as source material, "I just immediately was like, I'm in," said Mr. McKay, who serves as an executive producer for "Succession" and also directed the pilot.
That it is coming from Clinton, who not only represents the dynastic streak within Democratic politics that many within the grassroots reject, but who also lost what everyone assumed to be a sure thing victory over Trump in 2016, makes this all even more powerful for Sanders.
Privately, some Republicans — who did not want to publicly fight with the president's campaign manager — dismissed Mr. Parscale's choice of words, noting that the concept of dynastic politics was harmful to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and that it is not a concept historically favored by populists.
But now, after signing DeMarcus Cousins over the summer and spending recent months incorporating him into their dynastic fold as he recovered from Achilles' tendon surgery, the Warriors expect him to be in their starting lineup when they visit the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.
He also explicitly deprived the once-promising Nicholas Medforth-Mills, the son of his younger daughter and of a professor of geography at Durham University in Britain, of his princely title and dynastic rights, after he was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock (he denies it).
The demands are apparently aimed at dismantling Qatar's two-decade-old interventionist foreign policy, which has reflected the clout generated by its vast natural gas and oil wealth but incensed conservative Arab peers over its alleged support for Islamists they regard as mortal threats to their dynastic rule.
One of the last major links to the dynastic Yankees era that stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, he also assumed heroic stature for avoiding Yankee Stadium for 14 years after the team owner George Steinbrenner sent an underling to fire him as manager in 1985.
After the European Union inflicted devastating economic punishment on the Greek people, humiliated the leading Greek party with no involvement in triggering the crisis, and made Greek fascism politically viable, its austerity program restored to power the corrupt, dynastic party whose irresponsibility caused the calamity in the first place.
But the most important revelation from the 2916 tax documents is just how much Mr. Trump may have benefited from a tax provision that is particularly prized by America's dynastic families, which, like the Trumps, hold their wealth inside byzantine networks of partnerships, limited liability companies and S corporations.
Based on my understanding of British government (which, full disclosure, is largely informed by memories of my 10th-grade world history class, plus three seasons of "The Crown"), the prime minister and Parliament are democratically elected, and do the actual governing, while the dynastic, unelected royals have ceremonial roles.
"Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26), by Jason Turbow, recounts the team's early-1970s dominance, when it won three straight World Series with a lineup that included Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi and Sal Bando and a pitching staff anchored by Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers.

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