adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
army
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It was a long and bitter struggle with great losses on both sides, causing a serious weakening of the imperial army .
authority
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Only in one remote, unnoticed, and unreported area did imperial authority ring out with any confidence.
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Outfitted in his regal trappings, he would symbolize imperial authority .
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The imperial authorities fully exploited and sometimes overstepped their constitutional powers: there were imperial laws for everything.
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Without imperial authority to reinforce its moral precepts, it increasingly relied on high-minded exhortation.
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Prussian authorities party took over the function of imperial authorities.
capital
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This station was consciously designed to match the pretensions of a baroque imperial capital .
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Towns in the pre-Tokugawa years had, except for Kyoto the imperial capital , been fairly small scale.
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The city of Kyoto, the imperial capital , lies surrounded by hills and is frequently bathed in mists.
city
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In 1212 it received the charter of a free imperial city .
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The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile.
court
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He has retained his post at the imperial court in Hue.
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Assorted armed groups emerged during the nineteenth century, some encouraged by the imperial court , others fighting on their own.
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The sack of Rome in 410 marked the most hostile period in the relations between Alaric and the imperial court .
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His interests lay in power in the imperial court not in the papal court.
expansion
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It was avid for imperial expansion , and the majority of its citizens wanted to get rich.
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Democracy died after a period of incessant wars, imperial expansion abroad, and the rise of demagoguery at home.
family
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Instruments of torture feature somewhat incongruously alongside porcelain, glassware and fans owned by members of the imperial family .
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Hirohito's death in 1989 brought more open attitudes by the imperial family .
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The portraits were arranged to form a three-dimensional family tree, and to suggest links with the imperial family in Rome.
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The imperial family , steeped in Shinto ritual, appeals to the traditionalist and nationalist markets.
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The imperial family is doing its best to put its stamp on the future princess.
palace
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From an early date the imperial palaces at Constantinople incorporated decorative schemes that emphasized and glorified imperial power and dominion.
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When we drive by the front of her property, some one points out where the imperial palace once stood.
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The remains of Barbarossa's imperial palace at Gelnhausen.
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A sophisticated technology brought running water into private homes, public bathhouses and imperial palaces .
policy
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Supremacy among them and the effective direction of imperial policy belonged to Prussia; the king of Prussia was Emperor.
power
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The imperial powers had two main interests on the island: keeping down insurrection and importing its rice and sugar.
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In a stunning display of imperial power , he once announced that fabric from Dijon would contain 1, 408 threads!
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From an early date the imperial palaces at Constantinople incorporated decorative schemes that emphasized and glorified imperial power and dominion.
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The argument that an imperial power needed physically strong and virile rulers convinced many female anti-suffragists.
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His new wife was Beatrice of Burgundy, and the marriage was part of the complex Second Plan to strengthen imperial power .
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At the height of imperial power , exclusivity was rigidly applied.
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It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone.
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From early times the papacy had allied with the imperial power to condemn the unorthodox.
rule
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These disciplines were to prove an index of the strength of imperial rule .
system
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Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil.
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From the twelfth century onwards, this imperial system col-lapsed.
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Where a great imperial system survives, as in the Soviet Union, the railways retain some semblance of their former power.
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The international network, at least for the Western imperial system , added a long ocean voyage between two rail journeys.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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History is full of attempts at imperial domination.
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the imperial jewels
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he would not break with tradition, for he knew that innovation would bring down his imperial structure.
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Perhaps the sight of his footlocker had provoked her-a white man moving in to bombard the local ovaries with blue-eyed imperial genes.
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Second, it shows how in antiquity an absolute imperial monarch used the arts to bolster his rule.
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The second, the Code, consisted of the imperial constitutions and edicts.
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Those who favour a depiction of the fortunes of the imperial house have to reckon with the difficulty of recognising Augustus.
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Unlike many of his time Charlemagne had the skill of writing, as in his imperial signature on a document dated 775.
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Without a territorial base the papacy could not be independent of imperial and other influences.