"royal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Unlike other governments of the time, which frequently operated on royal whim or upon the accumulation of personal power, the Melcene government was rigidly departmentalized.
- "They see a future now, where their grandchildren can expect to grow up without fear of being murdered on a royal whim."
- The gardens of Versailles, the result of centuries of grooming and planning to satisfy royal whim, look more like a logging camp these days than a place where nobles in satin pumps liked to stroll.
- (And royal whim is one reason no Saudis want to be quoted by name when discussing their rulers.)
- Save in written descriptions, this glittering scheme had entirely vanished - sacrificed to royal whim.
- Similarly, marmalade did not begin with a royal whim.
- But age was one thing-a somewhat arbitrary milestone that easily might be set aside for reasonable cause, even royal whim.
- In the early period, the fortunes of the State Library rose and fell on royal whims.
- As for this week's vaunted Saudi visions in Beirut, "full normalization" could be rescinded on a royal whim overnight; "full withdrawal" is forever.
- To some, this seems like a royal whim, the shadowy wish of a weak queen.
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