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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both acts are morally wrong - Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages.
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I earn my first of these by commenting that there were a few raised eyebrows when his peerage was announced last June.
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In February 1921 he gave up office and soon afterwards he accepted a peerage and retired from active politics.
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Members of the House of Lords sat by virtue of birth, holding hereditary peerages.
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Mo Mowlam, the retiring Cabinet Office minister, is believed to have refused a peerage .
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Prior to union, each kingdom had its own peerage .
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With union, new peerages came into being.