Albert was not as weak as the nobles had hoped, and they forced him to sign two royal charters stripping him of his powers (1371 and 1383).
(Epstein died in 1967. Oldham, in a noble stance if not quite as noble as the Sex Pistols', in 1996 didn't attend).
"Their night was not quite as noble," she said.
My reasons for visiting Cuba were not quite as noble as my university grant application might have suggested.
In Alsace, the pertinent muscats are muscat blanc à petits grains, the classic muscat grape and progenitor of many other types of muscats, and muscat ottonel, which has not nearly as noble a past.
In moments of honesty, we began admitting to one another that our actions all those years ago were not always as noble as we liked to think they were.
Even if you haven't, you've probably seen the 1962 film, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, perhaps the most iconic role of his career -- although early reviews of the book "Go Set A Watchman" indicate Atticus may not be as noble as everyone thought.
Worse, Mr. Gore emerged from New York viewed even by his supporters not as a noble loser laying the groundwork for the future but as a naif who had been manipulated by sophisticated forces advancing their own interests and outmatched by a political culture he had not come to understand.
He decided to be the most brilliant cunt on earth, entering the ring not as a noble contender from across the pond, but as his own silhouette, dancing for over four whole minutes to the sounds of "Men In Black" and a load of other bass-heavy rap cuts.
So while Mozilla may have mostly noble intentions here, I still suspect we're going to see more along these lines from their competitors that aren't quite as noble.
