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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These feudal rulers, like the princely states of India, were given identity, power, recognition and land by Britain to run the subcontinent and were bestowed with the same privileges and undemocratic methods that, as you mention, they still retain.
Namely, with a princely valued currency.
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If the NHL handles this with the goal of maximum profit in mind, they will move the team to the GTA, continue to own the team for the duration of its tenancy at ACC to recoup the losses from Phoenix, and then sell the team for a princely sum once the new building in Markham is ready.
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