Mahmoud Sami convoked the Chamber; only to discover that the Notables were afraid to support him.
The Chamber of Notables also saw their chance, and demanded the dismissal of the Ministry.
The Consuls-General thereupon presented them with an ultimatum, and the Ministry resigned; but the Khedive was subsequently compelled by the threats of the army and the prayers of the terrified notables to reinstate Arabi Pasha.
The Khedive had convoked an assembly of the Chamber of Notables at the end of December, and in the meantime the elections were proceeding.
He chose to assume that the 280 notables who had not voted were in favour of the Law, and added their votes to the minority.
Re-forming, the procession moved up Zion street to the barrack square, where General Allenby received the notables and the heads of the religious communities.
On the steps, at the base of the Tower of David, which was standing when Christ was in Jerusalem, the Proclamation of Military Law was read, in the presence of the commander in chief and of many notables of the city.
Such a conjunction of events might well impress the imagination of men, bending the stubborn will of the northern islanders, and moulding the Italian notables to complete complaisance.
The final address uttered by Bonaparte to the Italian notables is remarkable for the short, sharp sentences, which recall the tones of the parade ground.
After the massacre of Swedish notables in Stockholm (Nov.
Then the Grand Wazir walked forward and did as the King had done and all the Notables who were present threw cash into the crucibles, bar-silver and piastres and dollars.
I bought two geese for our supper and now I find them turned into two sparrows;" and so saying he led the Notables of the quarter into his house and showed them the dish.
Then quoth the Sultan to the Wazir and the Notables of his realm, "Who was it threw aught into the crucibles and what stranger man happened to be here?
Moreover Allah Almighty enlightened his heart in governance with justice and equity; and all the subjects with the Notables of the realm and the Rulers of high rank blessed him and prayed for him.
The rule of the high chiefs and notablesseems to have always underlain and perhaps alternated with monarchy.
Here the Fourth of July feast had been held not long before with memorable consequences, yet to be set forth; here we took our meals; here entertained to a dinner the king and notables of Makin.
The same thought is prominent in the description of these notables as 'at ease.
The retainers of the house, and not a few of the notables of the county, assembled to pay the last form of respect to one whom, in despite of his latter-day life of seclusion, they recognised as one of the born leaders of the land.
When the King first saw the list of the deputies, he exclaimed," What would the nation have said if I had made up my council or the Notables in this way?
It would be just as sensible to select eleven hundred notables from an inland province and entrust them to the repair of an old frigate.
Another day I arranged a banquet, spread a table under the pine trees of Bahjí, and gathered round it the notables and officials of the town.
All the notables of Baghdád, even the Governor himself, came to honor the departing prisoner.
The notables elect the provincial councillors in the proportion, usually, of one to every canton, and their delegates elect the chief of the canton, who voices the wishes of the natives to the government.
Its assembly of notables or municipal council forms a sort of oligarchy, the members of which themselves elect individuals from among the more prominent inhabitants to fill vacancies.
At a conference which took place between the Bishop and several notables of the place, including the rector of the Jesuits, Lozano gave it as his opinion that, if the Governor refused to pay, a general interdict should be proclaimed.
Governor should die or be deposed, the notables of the place had power to appoint an interim Governor to fill his place.
As to domestic news, the Assembly ofNotables occupies all conversation.
From the separation of the Notables to the present moment, has been perhaps the most interesting interval ever known in this country.
The illness of these two ministers occasioned the postponement of the Assembly of the Notables to the 14th, and probably will yet postpone it.
The Notables spoke softly on the subject of the additional supplies.
You will have seen in the public papers, that the King has called an assembly of the Notables of this country.
The Notables have laid the foundation of much good here; you have seen it detailed in the public papers.
The meeting of the Notables on Thursday, and the necessity of paying my court to our new minister, will detain me till Friday, and perhaps till Tuesday next.
These circumstances have occasioned the postponement of the Assemblée des Notables to the 14th instant, and will probably occasion a further postponement.
If anything transpires from the Notablesbefore my departure worth communication, you shall yet hear from me.
He is the youngest man of the Notablesexcept one whose office placed him on the list.
The Assemblée des Notables has been productive of much good in this country.
The Assembly of notables had broken up on the 12th of December; the convocation of the States-general was at hand, and the government of King Louis XVI.
Brienne had come into office as a support to the king's desires and intentions, for the purpose of obtaining from the notables what was refused through their aversion for M.
The public were expecting to see all the edicts, successively presented to the notables as integral portions of a vast system, forthwith assume force of law by simultaneous registration of Parliament.
In 1787, the late director-general asked leave to appear before the Assembly of notables to refute the statements of M.
The liberality on which the notables plumed themselves as regarded the qualifications required in respect of the electors and the eligible was at bottom as interested as it was injudicious.
The notables and the chief of the council of finance undertook in concert the disentanglement of the accounts submitted to them.
The notables have seen with dismay the depth of the evil caused by an administration whereof your parliament had more than once foreseen the consequence," said the premier president of the parliament of Paris.
Lafayette who had the honor of supporting in the assembly of notables the royal project announced by M.
The notables had themselves recognized their own impotence and given in their resignation.
The convocation of the Notables was the means upon which M.
Meanwhile the notables were in possession of the financial accounts, but the satisfaction caused them by the disgrace of M.
In 1787, the Assembly of notables and its opposition to the king's projects presented by M.
Talleyrand speaks of his scheme as "a vast plan," but without base, as the Notables had no power whatever to raise the necessary supplies.
An assembly of Notables from all parts of Spain were convoked, to recognise the new monarch, and adjust the constitution under which Spain should be in future administered.
The place of meeting was at Bayonne; the date of convocation was the 15th of June; and the object announced for consideration of the Notables was the regeneration of Spain, to be effected under the auspices of Napoleon.
The constitution which Napoleon presented to the Spanish Notables at Bayonne was accepted by them, only to be flung back with scorn by the people.
Toward the end of 1786 Calonne, the Minister of Finance, had to admit that the treasury was bankrupt and advise the King to call a meeting of the Assembly of Notables to find some way out of the difficulty.
The Assembly of Notables reached no satisfactory conclusion.
For the reception of such notables several really first-class hotels were provided.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "notables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
