Rendering Other Temporarily Acting Monarchic Head of State
The title is still in use in some constitutional monarchies and designates the acting head of state while the monarch is abroad.
Read more about this topic: Lord Protector
Famous quotes containing the words rendering, temporarily, acting, head and/or state:
“How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Its idea of “production value” is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“There’s nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)