Narratives often centre on historical epics featuring dynastic royalty, concubines, deities and supernatural creatures.
Indian voters actually still do not seem to have a problem with dynastic politics.
People don't pay the same attention to that kind of dynastic influence as they once did.
Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, looks increasingly like a dynastic ruler bent on enriching his clan.
This is a record of dynastic continuity unmatched in Asia or anywhere else in the world.
Maybe mass hunger in the totalitarian state threatens to touch the levers of his dynastic power.
So that dynastic principle was invoked with regard to the prophet's cousin and son-in-law, Ali.
The rare joint appearance underlines what observers say is a planned third generation of dynastic rule.
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The Manchu emperor abdicated in February 1912, ending over 2, 000 years of dynastic rule.
The first is the failure of seemingly closed, and often dynastic, political leaderships to renew themselves.
He is reluctant to confront his alliance partners, despite their corruption and dynastic rivalries.
Indeed, in his desperate transformation, he has mimicked that other dynastic scion, Mr Gore.
So is it strictly a problem of opaque dynastic politics that is impeding the growth of Congress?
Be mindful that taxes do as much damage to small investors as they do to dynastic families.
The gut dislike of death duties seems to arise because the tax clashes with heartfelt dynastic instincts.
Ms Van Biezen thinks that as parties hollow out, celebrity and dynastic politicians may become more prevalent.
At a deeper level, it stands as a bitter indictment of the Subcontinent's perennial flirtation with dynastic politics.
It is clear that political (including personal and dynastic) treaties of the extinguished state fall to the ground.
The potential costs can be minimised if the other side can also be tarred with the dynastic brush.
The Chinese are talking about how they used to approach the world in the dynastic era, says Mr. Hill.
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Mr Gandhi has said he believes in a more democratic politics and that merit should score over dynastic privilege.
Lithuania eventually adopted Christianity, along with a dynastic deal with Poland, in 1387.
In the rest of the world, though, the name is likely to evoke what has been an extraordinary dynastic dispute.
"Use of goat or sheep skins in dynastic burials was rare because these materials were regarded ritually impure, " it says.
Even in this he shows his dynastic inheritance: his mother's favourite cause, as First Lady, was the promotion of literacy.
Has he ever discussed what many feel is a dynastic succession bid?
At the last election, Mr Rocamora's left-leaning, anti-dynastic party, Akbayan, won 20 mayoral races including the one in Iligan, the capital of Isabela.
Congress, despite able technocrats, like Mr Singh, remains an antiquated dynastic machine.
He was a cautious man, methodically feeling his way, but I think he sensed an evident opportunity and acknowledged a dynastic responsibility.
The unstable international order was the product of the collapse of the great dynastic empires in 1918-19 and a dysfunctional world economy.
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