Sentence examples for duchy from inspiring English sources

Prince Charles's Duchy Originals, famous for expensive biscuits, has just launched a kipper and lemon paté.

He wants to take the duchy of Ferrara, and asks his men how they would do it.

That might be enough to persuade even the euro-friendly folk of the grand duchy to say no.

But these days the islands and their 163,000 inhabitants are being assailed from many directions.Remnants of the ancient duchy of Normandy, Guernsey and Jersey are dependencies of the British crown but make their own laws.

If a local prince proved benighted, his subjects high-tailed it to the next duchy.

The situations are different (Switzerland is a stable confederation with medieval roots, Belgium a rickety federation born in 1830, Luxembourg a tiny grand duchy), but they have one thing in common: multilingualism in the country's native languages is considered a duty of good citizenship for all.Spain, meanwhile, privileges one language.

Mr Juncker will be the third commission president from Luxembourg, a grand duchy of just half a million souls that enjoys the EU's highest living standards, thanks to the bounty of financial services.

BY TUCKING the European Court of Justice away in the dull little duchy of Luxembourg, far from the hurly-burly of Brussels, the founders of the European Union ensured that few people except lawyers and litigants would take much interest in it.

It is also its most distinct state, as the only one that reverted after the second world war to its historical borders as a duchy and kingdom.

Swiss banks, too, increasingly use the duchy to serve EU clients.

The dinky duchy is an extreme case.