Haydn's princely employer died in 1790, and his successor had no interest in a composer's services.
Ordinary Saudis complain of unemployment and economic hardship, which they contrast with princely power and privilege.
Most of the Medici bank's lending was to royalty, to finance military campaigns or lavish princely lifestyles.
There is no shortage of honorifics in Malaysia, vestiges of the days of sultanates and princely kingdoms.
"The Princely family wishes to emphasise that this film is by no means a biopic, " the statement said.
Known as the Switzerland of Pakistan, the former princely state of Swat had been popular with tourists for decades.
The road ran on the bed of an old highway built when these lands lay within a princely state.
That may have contributed to the princely couple's dogged refusal, in a recent interview, publicly to disavow Jorge Zorreguieta.
While the government is making harsh claims and asking a princely sum, it does not want to destroy the tobacco industry.
Very impressive, except that not a single patient has been admitted to this princely establishment since it was commissioned 24 years ago.
He envisioned a luxurious boutique inn recalling the Golden Age of Siam, when travelers came by boat and reveled in princely Thai hospitality.
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Recalling the glory days of the former princely state, Ms Ahmadzeb said that during the Wali's reign women could move around unencumbered everywhere.
As for the now 28, 000 Gibraltarians, today's British and Spanish governments seem to think that the princely disdain of 1713 stands with it.
Rumours also hint at tensions in the Sabah family, with princely rivals to Sheikh Nasser said to be quietly egging on his parliamentary foes.
His sons provide a certain amount of tabloid copy by doing princely things in the armed forces and nightclubs, but the public is bored.
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Since Indian independence, the grand ceremonials of princely and proconsular power, in which elephants played such a central and starring part, have all but disappeared.
The royal ruler the Nawab of Junagadh, the princely state near Gir Forest, invited Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, to hunt lions with him.
The last nizam decamped several decades later, after independence abolished the princely states and tax liens, and family feuds, embezzlement, and general ineptitude evaporated the fortune.
Correspondents say that while most tiger hunting was carried out on elephant-back, some Indian maharajahs, or "great kings" of princely states took things to the extreme.
Durham's power and influence then grew as successive English kings gave the Bishop of Durham princely status, so he could raise taxes and armies to fight off periodic Scottish invasions.
For a princely sum, bin Laden or another of his ilk might well be able to acquire one of those loose nukes, or simply pay someone to launch one for him.
Earning minimum wage from his first job as a dishwasher felt like a princely sum when converted into Indian rupees, but it would never cover the costs of studying at university.
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Mr Raby said "what's extraordinary about Cyrus, is that he appears as a paragon of princely statesmanship in the two pillars of Western cultures, that is the Greco-Roman tradition and the Bible".
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They base their claim on the fact that the state was formerly an independent princely state, is geographically larger than at least 68 countries of the United Nations, and more populous than 90.
With about a fifth of the precincts in Palm Beach recounted, the vice-president had picked up the princely total of two extra votes and this in the county where the Gore campaign had invested most hopes.
Originally, like other princely states which joined India after the partition of the subcontinent, Kashmir ceded control of defence, communications and foreign affairs to Delhi, while keeping a tight hold on its domestic financial and legal affairs.
The story, narrated by the aged Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins) and unfolding in flashback, takes us from a princely boyhood in Macedonia, under the raging rule of Val Kilmer, to the rout of Darius at Gaugamela in 331 B.
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