Frank Deford

You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.

American Writer

Gustaf Skarsgard

People always think that I came from this dynasty of actors. But that's not true, because it was just dad. So as a child... I got to try it out really young... and I really loved it. I pretty much made my decision back then to become an actor. And then, more and more of us have joined the trend. So now, we're definitely an acting family.

Swedish Actor

Jerry Yang

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

American Businessman

Andrew Breitbart

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

Andrew Forrest

We are not about creating a Forrest dynasty, we're about helping others.

Australian Businessman

Katherine Ryan

The Kardashian family have earned their place as an American dynasty.

Canadian Comedian

Kevin Plank

When you're winning, you're creating a dynasty.

Amit Shah

Indian Politician

Alex Bregman

American Athlete

Robert Horry

Often used in historical contexts, relating to periods of rule in countries, especially in Asia and Europe.

Historical Usage

Implies the family ruled for a considerable time, not just a brief period.

Longevity Implied

Focuses on the succession of power within the same lineage, often hereditary.

Heredity Highlighted

Not limited to royalty; extends to families/groups dominant in specific areas, like sports or business.

Beyond Royalty

Used metaphorically to describe dominance that isn't based on actual rule but rather achievement or influence.

Metaphorical Use

Usually connotes a period of success and power within a certain field or industry.

Success and Power

 and Chinese dynasties rose and fell. Even Mongolian hoards, known for pillage and plunder, actively protected the trade routes, rather than disrupting them. But along with commodities, these routes also enabled the movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies and languages.

The Silk Road:...

 very important discoveries archaeological discoveries but it didn't i as a child i had no idea what any of that meant so he just lived he was the guy across the street he was just the guy next door now the leaky family is a scientific dynasty richard's parents louis and mary

Kenya’s Wildlife...

 "Uh, why don't we even know what she looked like?" "Most of the art and descriptions came long after her lifetime in the first century BCE, just like most of the things written about her." "So what do we actually know? Cleopatra VII was the last of the Ptolemaic dynasty,

History vs. Cleopatra -...

 this site was busy and active and important during the 18th dynasty. Jennifer's team must now move the precious blocks offsite for further analysis. As they dig deeper into the layers below the fortress, they uncover more clues that this site was

How Tutankhamun Got His...

 the bow has really helped drive human survival since prehistoric times. The area within three kilometers of my home used to be a mulberry forest during the Joseon dynasty, where silkworms were fed with mulberry leaves.

The art of bow-making PIPE...

 individualism were is important as compliance in uniformity we can only speculate based on the contents of the mausoleum for chin left no records of this grand creation records from the next dynasty indicate

The Terra-Cotta Warriors...

 there were already well-organized cities on several of the world's continents which present no evidence for ruling dynasties. And some of them also seem to have managed perfectly well without priests,

A New Understanding of...

 its brutal end but somewhere out in the desert the queen's royal daughters are fighting their own battles continuing her dynasty

Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth

 there are so many bodies living at close quarters that the Queen and her dynasty are in danger of overheating so workers

Bees Kill A Giant Hornet...

 Now. the hope of her dynasty falls on this one remaining pup.

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