Sentences with imperial
im·pe·ri·al
I i - ...the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
- An imperial gallon
- The two imperial allies soon began to suspect one another, and the great offensive fell apart.
- He has won four world titles and holds the world record over the 1,500 and its imperial equivalent, the mile.
- In origin, the warlords were mostly former soldiers of the imperial and republican armies, bandits, or local officials.
- The poet wore a luxuriant black moustache and imperial, and a slouched hat which shaded the forehead.
- The men had all been involved in court cases after refusing to post the weights of their produce in metric as well as imperial measurements.
- The bedroom reflects Dalí's most extravagant tendencies, as illustrated by the imposing imperial style of the beds.
- Many weight standards appear to have been used well into Medieval times, but the new find suggests an imperial ounce was adopted in the English world, away from the Viking Danelaw of eastern England.
- We are, de facto, the world empire, the world imperial authority.
- Within each heading both imperial and metric units are defined.
- Spain also had great imperial ambitions from the sixteenth century but a limited supply of suitable forest.
- And as they did in the imperial era, the lonely men of the remote hinterland clamour for a wife with potentially profound consequences for the entire nation.
- The tradition continued for 30 years in the Romanov imperial family.
- Much was lost in the 8th and 9th centuries as both the Saracens and the Byzantines took advantage of imperial and papal weakness.
- However, the domestic life of the imperial family was, considering their status, not ostentatious.
- I didn't convert the reference to metric because it loses its impact and anyway, I'm old enough to be still working in imperial weights and measures.
- Today, if you are a grocer, you will lose your shirt simply for weighing produce in the old imperial system.
- Guests included members of the imperial family, diplomats, business leaders and society.
- Long after it became illegal to sell in anything but metric weights, Delia still includes imperial measures in her recipes.
- Russian conquests in Asia were certainly no less brutal than those of any other expanding imperial power.
- Yet traders can be fined for selling goods in imperial weights.
- Sometimes, actors perform for travellers, enacting scenes from the Manchu imperial family's traditional ceremonies.
- Whether traders in this country choose to sell in imperial or metric units should be a matter between them and their customers.
- But being a mere male who doesn't cook turkeys every week, and who was brought up using imperial weight measurements, I trusted in the packaging instructions.
- For any official serving the imperial family, respecting the emperor's mother was also a necessity, which lent support from the moral angle to concubines running State affairs.
- He soon moved against the imperial family, executing first the emperor's mother, Maria, and then young Alexius himself in November.