Use "suzerainty" in a sentence

1. The campaigns of the first caliph, abu Bakr, dealt with defeating, then uniting all the tribal groups of the eastern Arabian peninsula who had been only nominally under the suzerainty of a previously weakened Sassanian (Persian) Empire

2. Thus is seen the consequence of the continued drifting away from their First Love, during the reign of the successors to the Apostolic church of Christ in the millennium-and-a-half of their suzerainty

3. To that end, they did not accept the suzerainty of the emperor quâ emperor; they accepted his rule only as “King of Hungary

4. In 1862, as a result of a short but disastrous war, Montenegro had been forced to sign a humiliating treaty of peace in which she virtually acknowledged the suzerainty of Turkey