imperial
Example Sentences
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That doesn’t mean Mr. Putin would surrender his imperial aims for a fee.
The census was more than a deployment of imperial authority, writes Ms. Truschke, a professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University.
The Fabergé house only ever made 50 eggs for Russia's imperial Romanov family, and the Imperial Winter Egg is one of just seven left in private hands.
From BBC
I didn’t want to go, given L.A.’s freewheeling art territory compared with imperial Manhattan.
From Los Angeles Times
The bishop and Church historian Eusebius, who took part, wrote that the church was tightly packed, and that discussions later moved to an imperial palace, where the Nicene Creed was drafted.
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